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Archives for August 2025

Elemental II

by: Caroline Picard

08/31/2025

“Elemental II: Photography and the Hand of Nature” is a group show of artists whose practices collaborate with the natural environment, using the photograph as a record.

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Noelle Phares

by: Patricia Albers

08/28/2025

Silhouetted against a wilderness vista, an actress contemplates a wildflower. “Ruminor“ (2025) is Noelle Phares’s version of a still by the photographer James Abbe for the 1920 silent film “Love Flower.”

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So the city can exist

by: Emily Davis Adams

08/26/2025

“So the city can exist” conjures the ethos of the city through a thoughtful selection of joyful and whimsical objects.

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Marilyn Levin

by: Barbara Morris

08/25/2025

Levin’s wall-mounted, painted, cardboard constructions as well as one large free-standing sculptural piece and a sculptural maquette transcend their humble origins.

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“Reform to Restoration”

by: Mark Van Proyen

08/23/2025

Hovering in the background of this exhibition is the French Academy, founded in 1648, when the Peace of Westphalia finally ended the century-long warfare between Catholics and Protestants.

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Locating the Artist in the Kingdom of Tech

by: Emily Davis Adams

08/18/2025

Recently a computer engineer friend working on artificial intelligence remarked that he thinks start-up entrepreneurs are the avant-garde artists of our time. When he said this, I bristled.

Filed Under: 2025 Commentaries, Commentary and Opinion

Daniel Cabrillos Jacobsen

by: Max Blue

08/14/2025

Daniel Cabrillos Jacobsen paints sedate landscapes and domestic scenes whose delicate, impressionistic style portrays domestic bliss and pastoral tranquility.

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LaGrange Point

by: DeWitt Cheng

08/03/2025

Based on the theme of extraterrestrial contacts, LaGrange Point symbolizes a point of temporary equilibrium in the context of a group exhibition.

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Kay Sekimachi

by: Renny Pritikin

08/02/2025

Kay Sekimachi has found ways to expand the traditional definition of weaving, while remaining within hailing distance of the craft values she embraces: grace and ephemerality.

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