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Greyhounds sprint in front of Frank Stella paintings; songbirds perch before Rothkos; a metallurgist pours glowing popcorn from a giant crucible: These are just a few goings-on in "All of the Above," Ralph Allen Massey's entertaining painting show at bG Gallery....
Michael Massenburg’s paintings eddy about the boundaries of figuration and abstraction. The artist’s acrylic on paper and acrylic and collage on panel, earth-toned works, which seem to encircle first the one, and then, the other mode of painting, express an intuitive...
In the early 1980's, George Condo coined the neologism "artificial realism" to describe his unique manner of interpreting human contrivance through emotively exaggerative paintings. Rather than growing stale, his work only seems to increase in relevance as reality...
Littered with newsprint—though not from an actual newspaper, but instead, oversized diptychs (34 x 21 inches) printed with news photographs and headlines drawn from The New York Times—the gallery floor in York Chang’s installation The Signal and the Noise (all works...
Heidi Hahn's grandly scaled paintings lend iconic status to plain-Jane women going about quotidian routines. Breezily limned in free-flowing brushstrokes and translucent washes, her anonymous characters appear lost in dreamy, meditative worlds even as they shop,...
Roy Dowell seems to be forever attempting to reconcile physical actualities or their aftermaths with moments of apprehension or anticipation, agents or instrumentalities with their symbolic equivalents. Collage is his medium par excellence, but in recent years, his...
As noted in 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History (1996) by Jeffrey Stewart, Althea Gibson received her first tennis racket in 1940, being barely a teenager. She was not only the first African American to win a women’s singles at Wimbledon;...
In a world where robots gauge workers' bathroom breaks, attending to one's basic needs is seen as an indulgence. Current buzz around "self-care," a notion often shrouded in a mystical feel-good aura as though it were elusive as a rainbow, attests the dysfunctionality...
Via distortion and exaggeration, Christina Quarles strips figures to their essence, exposing aspects of the human condition in the raw. Recalling Francis Bacon with a more hopeful, feminine twist, the large-scale paintings in Quarles' Regen Projects show, "But I Woke...
Different memories within each of our lives are associated with some space and with distinct details that carry the narrative of any specific occurrence. In Augusta Wood’s second solo exhibit at DENK, “The Shape of My Head,” the environment becomes the storyteller of...