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Lincoln Perry on Frank Auerbach and Marino Marini
This wasn’t a decapitated head, but a self-sufficient object, as autonomous as a meteor.
Kyle Hackett on Du Bois' Double Consciousness and the Freedom in Portraiture
I have spent about a decade studying W.E.B Du Bois’ concept of double consciousness: the sense of looking at one's self through the lens of others.
Ruth Marten on Paul Caranicas
He’s condensed a mall into a theatre set, flattening the rich detail into a sort of Greek chorus to serve the dumb central gun shop.
Alan Feltus on Susan Yanero
...her cast of characters played out dramas on a stage that is both circus and life as she knows it...
Construction and Erasure: Matt Bollinger on Narrative in Catherine Murphy and David Byrd
While both Murphy and Byrd use form as a means to make narrative works, they also create paintings that exist on a spectrum between solidity and erasure.
Marc Handelman on Martin Johnson Heade
The jungle is gathered as a flat organization of space, folded, and pierced so as to connect multiple locations.
John Moore on Pierre Roy
In the seventies while living in Philadelphia I spent a lot of time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where I first saw Pierre Roy's Metric System.