Post-Truth and Proud Of It: A Review of “Truth Claim” at Carrie Secrist Gallery
A summer group show picks up the perennial conversation around the indexicality of a photograph with some surprising counterclaims.
Poetic Gestures Painted and Drawn: A Review of Tang Chang at the Smart Museum
This Thai painter’s first American solo exhibition meditates on gestural abstraction as poetic movements.
A Rent Screen: Samantha Fickel Explores the Digital and Liminal at Stuart & Co.
An immersive installation flits between the material and the ephemeral in a spatialized exploration of our digital present.
Every Tone A Little Jaundiced: A Review of Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago
This potent but modest exhibition of the American Surrealist makes the case for a larger retrospective.
Painting Between Desire And Sublimation: A Review of Gretta Johnson at Paris London Hong Kong
Four beguiling oils steeped in the psycho-sexual vernacular of surrealism, a halfway state between desire and its sublimation.
Art Top 5: July 2018
Five must-see shows for the summer, including one worth the road trip.
Elusive Allusions Of The Body: A Review of Rachel Niffenegger at Western Exhibitions
Niffenegger’s sculptures court the ethereal, delighting in small details, while manipulated prints smear the meaning out of things.
Flatness 3.0: A Review of “Vampire’s Kiss” at Aspect Ratio
Five artists consider repertoires of digital image-making in paintings and drawings.
Dear Sabina: A Love Letter to Sabina Ott (1955-2018)
A tribute to the late Sabina Ott (1955-2018).
From Japan, Modern Portraits In Print: A Review of “Modern Japanese Portraits” at the Art Institute of Chicago
Four artists of Japan’s Creative Print Movement who sought to make fine art from the reproducible medium in the first half of the twentieth century.
