AT HOME IN THE CHAOS In the studio with Zak Smith
What do CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, three-time Adult Video News All-Girl Performer of the Year Charlotte Stokely, and art-world rising star landscape painter Emma Webster all have in common? They’ve all posed for Zak Smith. The Ward portrait...
MONUMENTAL GRAFFITI & GLITTERACY RETNA's indecipherable language of pop power
The glittering paintings wouldn’t be out of place in Giza or Athens or Persepolis. RETNA’s bold scripts are the kind that shout down at you from the tops of ancient monuments. Sometimes elements of the painted characters resemble ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs,...
DUELLING REVIEWS: MARILYN MINTER at Regen Projects
Amelia Lockwood (snap review) at Morán Morán
Amelia Lockwood’s ceramics push up against the natural constraints of their medium in novel ways. Rather than the earthbound, closed forms associated with this medium, we get vine-like, open lattices, expanding outward from a central axis. These echo Rococo decorative...
Terry Powers (snap review) at Guerrero Gallery
Powers’ paintings—which range from landscapes to still lives to paintings of mechanical detritus—recall Impressionism, albeit in its most restrained instances: more Pissarro than Monet. That is, there’s a withholding quality towards light and a painterly restraint...
Zoe Alameda (snap review) at Cheremoya
The centerpiece of this show is From Here On Out (2025): a large, ramshackle, free-standing, scrap-wood armature supporting two plexiglass panels, embedded with four small assemblage-paintings, themselves containing collaged, miscellaneous photographic imagery...