He established a new aesthetic, paving the way for photography’s acceptance as fine art.
Archives for February 2012
Sarah Walker @ Gregory Lind
Dynamic tension between the metaphysical and the worldly, and between high and low characterizes the painting of Sarah Walker.
Brian Dettmer @ Toomey Tourell
What are the literary and philosophical implications of re-presenting the contents of a book? Dettmer explores the question.
Mary Hull Webster @ b. sakata garo
Webster’s hermetic, alchemy-influenced work focuses on the spiritual journey of two fictional characters.
Patrick Graham @ Meridian
Dublin-based Patrick Graham makes grave and complex paintings that are hard to like and absolutely impossible to disrespect.
Robin Kandel @ Andrea Schwartz
To concretize the ephemeral, Kandel pulls from several strains of abstraction to reinvigorate an old subject: the play of light on water.
Katherine Westerhout @ Electric Works
The exquisite beauty of her pictures nearly obscures the tragedy that underlies them.
Christopher Taggart @ CCAS
Taggart’s art is about turning one thing into another and then turning that thing into something else.