Archives for July 2025

Mildred Howard’s uncanny wrapped figures resemble banal ghosts. The word “resemble” normally means “to look like,” but in our fraught iconoclastic moment it means something more: to re-assemble.

Richard Learoyd makes large photographs with a camera obscura, lustrously soft and immaculately detailed, of flowers, nudes, trees and the Grand Canyon.

Ebullience is rare, all the more so because it is rooted in authentic joy, balance and clarity of purpose. It can be found in Peter Wayne Lewis’s exhibition of paintings executed from 1999 to 2023.

When I first walked through “Turning the Page,” curated by Donna Seager I encountered Maria Park’s “Cover 10” and “Cover 5” (2013), two images that indirectly reference the Penguin Book Cover series “Turning the Page.”

William Rhodes explores themes of the African American experience as grounded in a deep connection to familial history and infused with spiritual and humanist values.

Shepard Fairey’s signature flat graphics, restricted color palette, and hypnotic repetition of icons like Andre the Giant have made him one of the most recognizable artists of his generation.

Shadows haunt the rooms in “Viaje a la luna,” a moving and evocative exhibition. Shadows are considered for their many poetic implications — the ominous, the apparitional, the unknown, and the evidence of existence.

The 67 photographs included in “Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene” were taken since the turn of the millennium by 44 artists who reflect the vast changes that have taken place during the past twenty-five years.

In 2022 on a visit to Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology, Arleene Correa Valencia first encountered the “Codice Botuini,” and its national origin narrative has gripped her creatively ever since.

In 1962, after having early success with Abstract Expressionism, Stephen Pace abandoned the movement in favor of expressive figuration.