Please click here to read the article By Glen R. Brown October 2013 In the early 1960s, before the mistral wind of poststructuralism swept much of the humanism from the humanities, historian Lynn White, Jr. famously argued that technology opens doors, but people choose whether or not to pass through them. Such faith in human […]
By Jason Dilts September 29, 2013 The Wichita Art Museum is exploring the dynamic between nature and human innovation in a new exhibit. “Vital Signs” uses video, animation, motion sensors and other technology to trace the connection people have with the natural world in a digital age. The new media exhibition from the San […]
A fearless practitioner of unbridled abstraction with a career dating to the 1960s, Cornelia Shultz, now 79, continues to amaze by teasing paint into the most improbable contortions.
“Jefferson Pinder: Revival”At G Fine Art to Aug. 3“Academy 2013” By Kriston Capps • July 19, 2013 Jefferson Pinder, “Revival” Jefferson Pinder’s “Revival” is somebody’s nightmare. The most harrowing images in this multichannel video installation open in a parking garage. At the far end of the row lurks a menacing figure. The camera creeps forward […]
Effortless perfection in black, white By Kenneth Baker Joachim Bandau and Irmel Kamp, German artists in their 70s who happen to be married, share space at Sweetow to form a show worthy of a museum venue. Bandau turns in new watercolors of a sort he has shown here before; translucent rectangles of thinned black […]
“Bloom,” a compact show of eight recent painted sculptures by Christopher Miles, takes its name
seriously. The flowering at hand is excitement over the extreme, hybrid nature of contemporary
experience.
‘Day After Day It Reappears’: See the results when abstract art, photos meld By Kimberly Chun Ordinarily it’s hard to make out Brooklyn artist Markus Linnenbrink behind the candycolored drips on his wood panels, the man behind the juicy-looking blocks of resin. But in “Day After Day It Reappears” at Patricia Sweetow […]
Meredith Tromble March 17, 2013 The Abandon Videos This is an odd time to be thinking about a dead leaf. Our songbird neighbors are turning up the volume and, in his impatience for love, our local skunk, normally a nocturnal fellow, has been scrambling up the hillside before sunset. Spring is upon us. Yet here […]
Mark down this dazzling show at the McColl Center in appointment book By Grace Cote March 8, 2013 Time: clocks ticking in perfect rhythm, continually, for eternity. Time: concrete and predictable. These are the easy definitions of the word. The more challenging school of thought is on display at the McColl Center in All […]
By Katherine Balcerek February 4, 2013 Time. It is a concept with which we are all familiar. We count it. We waste it. We watch it go by. There is a right time and a wrong time. You can even be behind it or ahead of it. But do we really understand it? Do we […]