Since the now-famous Panty Hose Pieces brought her to the forefront of the African-American avant-garde in the 70s, Senga Nengudi has been making art that explores the human body in all of its changeable forms and movements. From her early, biomorphic sculptural works to her current, more interior landscapes, Nengudi, who has a background in […]

For two weeks in May, we were treated to the luminous brushstrokes of Gencay Kasapci’s acrylics on canvas, to Keth Morant’s subtle and playful sketches on paper, to the explosive fury in Vera’s Arutyunyan’s provocative and energetic abstracts, to the delightful Clifford Faust’s disturbing paper cuts of charming, voluptuous women feasting and feeding their desires, […]

A butterfly is an apt metaphor for “Eden’s Edge: 15 LA Artists,” a current exhibition at the Hammer Museum. Fluttery and vulnerable, the work is skittish and fragile; lovely to behold, with a trajectory that could only be described by string theory, it rewards close-up looks and far away ganders; clustered on walls like butterflies […]

Like the patriarchs of Pop Art in the mid-1950s, Alejandro Vigilante has had enough of painting for painting’s sake. Last year, the Argentine-born, Miami-based artist, who had been creating painterly abstracts for the entirety of his career, realized that he had something to say, and he wanted to say it with his art. Leaving the […]

A strikingly impressive mid-career retrospective of the artist Sky Pape’s work is currently on view at River Stone Arts, a 10,000 square foot gallery space in Haverstraw, New York, a small, arty blue collar town on the west bank of the Hudson river twenty-five minutes north of New York City. Pape’s work is widely exhibited […]

Leah Oates: When did you know you were an artist?  Stephanie Brody-Lederman: I knew that I was an artist when I was very young. At about five years of age, my mother and I would visit my grandparents and, while they talked in the living room, I would be given a piece of paper with […]

I consider myself a faux landscape photographer. I meticulously build miniature model landscapes and interior environments and photograph the results. As an artist, I have always looked to the physical world around me for inspiration. My work is a direct reflection of my own landscape, with a particular bent towards disaster and decay. By actually […]

On the way to Broadway Gallery’s newest group show, “Waiting,” I couldn’t help but reflect on the serendipitous correspondence of my own situation. Waiting for the bus. Then waiting for the subway. Waiting for the walk light. Waiting for the elevator. Waiting and waiting and waiting. As co-curators Raluca Corjan and Victoria Mayer—as well as […]

The title of this exhibition, “In the Age of Innocents,” brings to mind The Age of Innocence, a novel by Edith Wharton who writes about society, class and culture. However, I suspect Tony Moore is not making a reference, with his spelling of the word “innocents,” to the rules of this society. No. Instead, Moore […]

With the world in crisis, it is rare to find a painter who dares to enter the collective unconscious to explore a solution. Yet, this is precisely the monumental task that Michael Manning sets for himself in his dazzling “Contradictions,” exhibited at Pablo’s Birthday in New York this spring. At the turn of the millennium, […]