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The history of abstraction in the West charts a clear trajectory, beginning in the early 20th Century and the work of artists such as Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian. In China, however, abstraction is simply one of the many parallel styles available to contemporary Chinese artists, considered neither in opposition to, …
Yolanda Sánchez’s paintings are a search for re-enchantment, for a way to reach below the surface of things, to find that point …
After their 2016 University of North Carolina Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition at Weatherspoon Art Museum, 7 women artists, present their …
In his sculptures, drawings, text pieces, and performative workshops, Ethan Hayes-Chute explores ideas of self-sufficiency and self-preservation, making reference to outsider architecture, …
Influenced by the critic Rayner Banham, by the work of French architect/engineer Jean Prouvé, and by his early experience of working with …
Matthew Higgs is an English artist, curator, writer and publisher, strongly influenced by the tradition of text-based Conceptual Art, he depended consistently …
Portraits are one of the richest veins of the Whitney’s collection, a result of the Museum’s longstanding commitment to the figurative tradition, …
As a performance artist, trained as a sculptor, Tamar Ettun’s artistic practice incorporates both movement and stillness. The duality has a symbolical …
Paulo Bruscky is one of the world’s first artists to manipulate the xerox machine as an aesthetic device. He has played a …
Happy Hollidays, Good Month (!) Efi Michalarou 1/8/16
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the exhibition “Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection”. The exhibition presents a …
Founded in 1979, The Museum Of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary Art. In …
The importance of American artists in the history of Modern Art is well-known and well-documented, from Jackson Pollock to Mark Rothko and …
Amar Kanwar has distinguished himself through films and multi-media works, which explore the politics of power, violence and justice. His multi-layered installations …
Anthony McCall earliest films are documents of outdoor performances that were notable for their minimal use of the elements, most notably fire. …
Gerrard’s works are constructed as simulations or virtual worlds, using 3D Real-time computer graphics. Although making use of advanced digital technology, Gerrard’s …
Jill Kroesen was an essential figure in the ‘70s New York, working at the intersection of experimental music and then-emerging Performance art. …
An artist with a relentlessly “constructionalistic impulse” Katinka Theis works in the space between sculpture and architecture. Transforming structures from the world …
Kris Martin belongs to the most important representatives of Contemporary Conceptual Art from Belgium. Working with different Media such as drawing, photography, …
Negin Sharifzadeh studied sculpture at the University of Tehran and started working in animation and new media since her move to New …
Gildas Coudrais experiments with the most different pictures that spring from media, advertisement, family albums as well as from examples of the …
Kimsooja has approached women’s labor of sewing from a different angle and expanded it to a larger context of society. She refuses …
Much has been said and written about Jannis Kounellis’ involvement with the Arte Povera Movement. His iconic works encompassing the objet trouvé …
Keith Sonnier reinvented sculpture in the late ‘60s. Employing unusual materials that had never before been used, Sonnier, along with his contemporaries, …
