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 […]
Please click here to read the article By Tracy Teagarden Spring 2013 Linda Sormin is a Toronto-based artist who teaches ceramics at Sheridan School of Craft and Design. She studied ceramics at Andrews University, Sheridan School of Craft & Design, and Alfred University, where she earned an MFA in 2003. Linda Sormin’s clay-based sculptures and […]
Donna Schumacher 01/02/2013 Sol Grotto, © Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello “The canopy of a tree, say a poplar, like a round house, removed the site of vulnerability—the obvious entrance and back with no protections. Privacy can creep about in the leaves and below them, hang here as lungs on the outside.”—Hazel White, “Peril […]
Friday, September 7, 2012 HELEN O LEARY Shapes of disappointment, Paris 2010, Egg oil on wood What are you working on in your studio right now? I’m just back from three months of being on the road; my gut response to the studio upon landing was one of bushwhacking, pairing down and getting rid of […]
Jamie Vasta ARTIST, OAKLAND // SEPTEMBER 2012 “ It’s been important to me to work with a material where I have to make up the rules and find my own way.” With glitter and glue and not much else, Jamie makes big paintings that depict dark and dramatic narratives. She says working with glitter is, […]