Dec 01
The night before the indigenous art collective Postcommodity planned on suspending twenty-six balloons along the US-Mexico Border, winds kicked up, threatening the next day’s work and the culmination of...
Dec 01
Matthews Gallery presents a major retrospective of Janet Lippincott, a pioneer of Southwest Modernism. Born in New York in 1918, Lippincott had attended the Art Students League of New York at age fifteen before departing for Paris where she was introduced to the work of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and other early modernists...
Dec 01
The presence of so many cartoon characters, plus, on one painting, the block-printed phrase “Everything Will Be OK,” might suggest that the title of this exhibition (on view through December 4) reflects a state of mind. Along with toy monkeys and a thumbs up sign, various icons of “optimism” turn out to convey a more ambiguous message...
Dec 01
It’s a slang thang, a vernacular spectacular from the high priest of lowbrow, Robert Williams, the top exec of Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine, “Big Daddy” Roth’s Art Director, and an outstanding Zap Comix original. Williams’s wild and wooly imagination is matched only by his mad skills as an oil painter. Call it Pop Surrealism...
Nov 11
Let us sing the praises of art galleries who dare set up shop in risky neighborhoods...
Nov 01
When I think of Mabel Dodge Luhan and her company, celestial analogies spring to mind: a constellation of disparate personalities, a system of spinning bodies suspended and connected, held in balance by the gravitational force of a central figure whose brilliance is both perilous and life-giving...
Nov 01
Earl McBride works across a variety of moods, methods, and vibrations—predominantly in the realm of abstract painting. Throughout, his layered markmaking against clean white or softly patinaed panels creates compositions that buzz with tension. In more vigorous pieces, pigment and line are suspended, about to collide in a frenzy...
Nov 01
Nüart Gallery, Santa Fe October 7-30, 2016 evolution of a sculptor (or of almost any artist, for that matter) is a series of comprehensible and logical steps leading to a fully […]
Oct 01
Kate Carr creates minimalist sculptural works working primarily in Baltic birch plywood and wool felt. The structural lines of plywood meet with colorful, stacked pieces of felt with even-handed transparency.
Aug 01
It’s March and Thais Mather sits in her Eldorado living room with a great firmament of inky constellations hanging above her head. She recently completed the artwork for a solo exhibition titled The Anonymous Author, and its centerpiece is a series of densely detailed pointillist...
Jun 01
the micro- and the macrocosmic. Having recently opened the show Drawing, Reading, and Counting at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans (May 7 – June 18, 2016), the Texas-born, Santa […]
