I don’t quite know what to make of Juan Alonso’s minimal, dark, nearly colorless new abstractions, a puzzling change in direction for an artist whose work has always been linked with the sunny, sensual South. Perhaps the artist himself is hedging his bets; his new exhibition ...
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Arts critic Matthew Kangas offers this new round-up of the Whatcom Museum's Spring-Summer exhibition "Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010" which closed recently in mid-August. "Canon Building and the Difference Between Historians and Art Critics" explores the Whatcom exhibit curated b...
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Dear Readers - Last year I wrote this essay for a catalogue published in conjuction with a performance conceived by artist Susie J. Lee. As she was awarded the Stranger Genius Award in Visual Art for 2010, I thought I wou...
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The late, great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson pioneered the idea of photography as the search for a decisive moment, that perfect, spontaneous convergence of subject, action, and place that a click of the button can immortalize forever. Painters might struggle to create such an image...
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Contemporary artists have a lot on their plate. Not only has the current economic meltdown made their lives more precarious than ever, they have also been faced with an increasingly apocalyptic world as a looming, correlative subject. If there were any lingering doubts that today’s performance...
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