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Nic Nicosia Isn’t Doing This on Purpose (or Maybe He Is)

Is Nic Nicosia's work utterly surreal? Deeply autobiographical? His Dallas retrospective plumbs an oeuvre brimming with play and pain.

Madison Ford • July 21, 2026

A woman dressed in black sits in front of a contemporary oil painting featuring cupid and playing card motifs.

ReviewNevada

Scripted Spaces Dissects the Mind Maze of the Las Vegas Casino, Down to Those Crazy Carpets

Las Vegas–raised painter eri king co-opts the persuasive powers of gambling hall interior design at Available Space Art Projects.

Alejandra Lara • December 10, 2024

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Nancy Good: Radical Futures

Las Vegas-based artist Nancy Good blends AI-generated imagery with handcrafted process in a new series of cyborgian self-portraits.

Justin Duyao • September 06, 2024

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Lydia Andrew Farrell: Reimagining the Suburbs

It's Halloween everyday and outsiders rule the streets in hypersaturated paintings by Denver suburbanite Lydia Andrew Farrell.

Ray Mark Rinaldi • September 06, 2024

A painting of a Black man wearing a black t-shirt with the words Rest in Peace in white cursive on it, holding up his right hand while another man places a palm on his forehead, a fan with a family portrait on a sky blue background obscuring his face.

ReviewTexas

Making the Unseen Seen in Jammie Holmes’s Make the Revolution Irresistible

Jammie Holmes’s first solo museum exhibition celebrates the lives of everyday Black folk while continuing the rich tradition of Black figurative painting.

Leslie Thompson • September 05, 2023