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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Artists find their inspiration in distinctive ways. What Van Gogh discovered in the Japanese print, or Picasso in the African mask, Whiting Tennis sees in the cobbled-together backyard sheds, chicken coops, and homemade furnishings of the rural Northwest. While Van Gogh’s w...
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There are two sort of women in Patti Warashina’s large, all-girl exhibition at Howard House this month: the Frazzled, and the Beatific. The artist gets credit for attempting to deal with such a range of experience and response, but it is clearly the sculptured, smiling women on pedestals, rath...
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The recent surge of interest in drawing as independent artistic medium is one of the more encouraging aspects of the contemporary art scene. In an era when anyone can produce professional-quality images at the push of a button, artists who elect to draw instead make a very different choice. ...
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Judging from his resume, multi-media artist Euan Macdonald has never created anything quite like the 20 x 50 foot mountain that all-but-overflows the main exhibition space at Western Bridge, his biggest and most ambitious installation to date. Commissioned by patrons Bill and Ruth True, the ...
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