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Robert Irwin “Drawings” Expanding Aesthetic Awareness

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ARTNOWLA September 27, 2017. Robert Irwin artworks are vehicles for questioning the way we see the world.  Like a philosopher , Irwin is  interested in questions that expand our cognitive understanding –  but as an artist he thinks through sensitive feeling. For five decades Irwin has created ” conditional art” that responds to the surrounding light...
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Robert Irwin’s Drawings Without Marks

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  Hyperallergic, September 16, 2017. There are no drawings in Robert Irwin’s exhibition Drawings at Quint Projects. Instead these ‘drawings without marks” are composed of manufactured fluorescent light tubes and fixtures that are not wired for electricity Irwin lists the materials as, ” shadow + reflection + color.” Less is more in Drawings. By leaving the...
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Lezley Saar’s Melancholic Poetics of Identity

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Hyperallergic, July 1, 2017.  Lezley Saar explores the ambiguities  of being neither black nor white, male nor female. For decades Saar has looked behind the veil of superficial appearance, to explore the emotional conflict underlying mistaken identity from the perspective of a biracial woman who looks white – but feels black. Gender Renaissance at Walter Maciel...
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Pippa Garner’s Crossover Art of Gizmos, Gadgets, and Gender

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Hyperallergic,  May 27, 2017.  Pippa Garner  is a crossover artist with a penchant for satirical inventions and ideas. Tinker Tantrum at Redling Fine Art includes pencil drawings and texts, mixed media assemblages, and video performances from the 1970s to the present that showcase Garner’s ingenuity as an absurdist and bricoleur, exploring a vein of popular science...
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artist profile: rachel lachowicz

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art ltd. May/June 2017.  Today more expansive feminisms are trending in the era of transgender politics and once again Rachel Lachowicz  is driving the conversation. Lachowicz prefixes red lipstick onto satirical homages of iconic minimalist works in her feminist interventions in minimalism to transgress gender binaries. Her “feminimalist” work fuses aesthetic complexity with conceptual rigor. Lachowicz was...
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James Griffith’s Tar Paintings, Biophilia @ Craig Krull Gallery

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HuffPost, March 31, 2017. A review of James Griffith’s tar paintings. Instead of depicting nature, Griffith works with nature itself, extracting images of the milky way, flora and fauna out of tar so that his paintings exude life. Rather than making paintings of nature Griffith’s artwork behaves like nature – recalling Jackson Pollock’s famous comment ” I...
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Lisa Adams’ Fictious Worlds @ CB1 Gallery and College of the Canyons Gallery

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 HuffPost, March 22, 2017.  Lisa Adams’ idiosyncratic paintings are interior monologues. Her paintings are a hybrid of representation and abstraction,landscape and still life, surrealist and dystopian imagery that blur so many genre lines, they defy categorization.Adams paintings play with anomalies that are disturbing, eccentric and quirky – rather like Tim Burton’s movies. Her paintings are fictitious worlds...
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