Category: FEATURES

The Multiple Narratives in ‘Form Follows Fiction’

by Megan Kee

Using performative and allegorical processes, described as such by curator Luis Jacob, the work explores how the artist’s conditions have shaped their sense of place.

by Elizaveta Mironova

Wood brings out the dramatic and almost shallow aspects of society while Husar pulls on engrained historic elements of womanhood. Both are excellent colorists and mesmerizing painters.

by Andriy Bilenkyy

A Fine Line makes death acceptable and even fashionable in an aesthetically pleasing, technically sophisticated, and meta-artistically rich way.

by Nika Teper

Mark Stebbins’ artwork evokes intrigue in it’s material plasticity, subject amalgamation and small scale.

by Jordan Fee

In these paintings, Lonn evades the purely abstract and places an emphasis on the notion of meaning making. The paintings in Khrome seem to suggest a possible truth; however, it is the viewer that is given the choice to decide just what this truth might be.

by Carter Brown

The scenes portrayed are both in natural and city environments mainly in the Czech Republic, the artist’s birthplace, where he visited for the first time this year since immigrating with his family 49 years earlier.

by Simon Termine

Hendeles not only offers a glimpse into the complex development of the “pig” in human civilization; she exposes much of the controversial, characteristically “vulgar” underbelly of the human condition, or rather the potential it has to descend to the begotten level.

by Alice Pelot

Every artist in the exhibition expresses vulnerability about widely felt anxiety, each filled with pain or humor and each worth engaging with.

by Elizaveta Mironova

Harruthoonyan’s show takes us to a world of dream, surrounded by the cosmos, relaxing the mind. Then upstairs Mann’s exhibition greets the viewer with a world of ecstatic colors that energizes and activates the imagination. The two exhibitions greatly complement each other.

by Katerina Bong

Most pieces in Arboretum challenges the traditional notion of man taming nature, instead nature dominates the composition of the photographic pieces

by Jordan Fee

The chaotic, and sometimes hypnotic nature of these prints draws us in and locks us into a constant battle for understanding, from which escape can be difficult.