Brilliant Still-Lifes With Few Hints Of Today’s World: A Review of Gregory Block at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
Precisely rendered still-lifes speak to an older tradition of painting with few hints of the modern world.
Of Divine and Diminutive Devotion: A Review of “The Medieval World at Our Fingertips” at the Art Institute of Chicago
A smartly-hung show of medieval paintings in Chicago is something to celebrate.
Anachronism As Abstraction: A Review of Cathy Hsiao at Goldfinch Gallery
Defying the bifurcation that often occurs at the intersection of conceptualism and formalism, Hsaio’s work is as much about processes as formal aesthetics.
Beauty And War In Screenshots From Before: A Review of Howardena Pindell at Document
Decades before the screenshot, Howardena Pindell pioneered the relationship between found images and manipulated surfaces with chance drawings on her television screen.
Fake It When You Make It: A Review of “This Is A Pipe” at Shane Campbell Gallery
In the era of Fake News, is it any longer critical for art to imitate life while neglecting its beauty?
Ancient Egyptians Literally Wrote The Book On The Afterlife: A Review of “The Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt” at the Oriental Institute
The show represents a welcome opportunity to examine some of the museum’s holdings that are rarely displayed, including sumptuously illustrated papyrus sheets and playfully decorated tomb bricks.
The Lookbook For Our Fluid Future: A Review of Andrew Holmquist at Carrie Secrist Gallery
Holmquist returns to Chicago with paintings, prints and ceramics that don’t just challenge identity, they celebrate its fluidity.
Art Top 5: March 2018
March brings paintings that are not quite, and drawings that aren’t themselves either.
Aesthetic Absurdity that Matches the Madness of Our Times: A Review of Nina Chanel Abney at the Chicago Cultural Center
Abney’s paintings contain all of the dramatic grandeur and import of the figurative works which are fêted dutifully in the past centuries of Paris and London, but depict the trappings of our present.
Enigmatic Propositions on the Past and Present of Human Migration: A Review of Ellen Rothenberg at the Spertus Institute
Rothenberg’s room-sized installation collages images of haunting objects from the Spertus Institute’s archives of Judaica and the Holocaust with photographs of migrant camps in present-day Germany.
