The artist considers his own place in the complex history of landscape painting through canvases stretched imperfectly on wood from trees around his home.
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A Galician Artist’s Return Home
Vicente Blanco’s quietly complex drawings depict disorienting, spellbinding scenes in which things are rarely what they initially seem.
Damien H. Ding’s Dreams of a Modernist Past
In his paintings, Ding establishes an imaginary dialogue with architect I. M. Pei that reveals something about both the artist and his subject.
Paintings That Capture the Full Force of Nature
There’s nothing still in Melinda Braathen’s still lifes, which are lush and alive, growing, pulsing, vibrating.
A Painter Suspended Between Beauty and Waste
Something about Phillip Allen’s visual preoccupations speaks to the viewer’s mind and eye, the connections and ruptures between physical and visual sensations.
The Violent Sublime of Wanda Koop’s Paintings
Koop both illuminates and conceals expressions of power, aestheticizing and making visible Russia’s violent war on Ukraine.
Danielle De Jesus’s Ode to Puerto Rican Bushwick
Amid the neighborhood’s rampant gentrification, the artist captures the moments she wants to remember.
In TM Davy’s Art, Faeries Have Their Day
The artist’s recent exhibition, Fae, is like a fantasy film that asks you to stay open to the idea of magic.
The Passions of Joan Snyder
Snyder’s painting suggests a constant, self-examining practice, one that remains absolutely faithful to the veteran who wields it.
The Artist Making Masterpieces Out of Bubble Wrap
Bradley Hart injects the packaging material with acrylics to recreate classic art historical paintings, portraits, and more.
Monica Sjöö’s Radical Feminist Goddesses
Her paintings were attempts to channel the Great Mother Goddess, manifested through composite landscapes made up of sacred sites and symbols.
Can “Rubenesque” Be Feminist?
Rubens & Women argues that, far from objectifying his models, the artist depicted a nuanced female body.