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Plein-air painting, once a central genre of modern art, has experienced such a precipitous decline in recent decades as to have practically disappeared. In what often seems an openhanded acknowledgment [...]

MONIQUE MELOCHE GALLERY Painting gets most exciting when an artist relieves it of its historic burden of pretending to be a stable or consistent communicative vehicle. Joe Baldwin's canvases have [...]

ROY BOYD GALLERY The best hard-edged geometric abstraction, especially at small scale, ends up negotiating an almost palpable tension between reduction and expansion. John Pittman narrows his playing field to [...]

JULIA FISH During the past ten years, Julia Fish has created paintings and works on paper based almost exclusively on her immediate physical environment. Depicting snippets of sky viewed in [...]

RENAISSANCE SOCIETY Catherine Sullivan studied acting before becoming a visual artist (she has degrees in both areas), and her two-part multimedia installation Five Economies (Big Hunt/Little Hunt), 2002, hovers in [...]

In his recent large-scale paintings, Conor McGrady at once mines the tradition of full-length portraiture and turns it on its head. Mimicking the compositional style of official commissioned paintings by [...]

In his recent video projections Tiong Ang makes the feelings of estrangement and disorientation experienced by the international traveler seem the basic conditions of contemporary life. The Indonesian-born, Amsterdam-based artist [...]

The threat of terrorism and the fear that follows a terrorist attack reduce 'normalcy' to a veneer of routine that only imperfectly masks our vulnerabilities and anxieties. On March 20, [...]

It might not seem that Internet porn bears any similarity to houses for sale in Orange County, or that American-made shoes have anything in common with the top-grossing movies in [...]

UNIVERSITY GALLERIES OF ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY NORMAL, ILLINOIS All paintings are created optically, but some are more optical than others. In 'post-hypnotic,' organized by Barry Blinderman, the works of twenty-eight [...]

DESON-SAUNDERS GALLERY Michiko Itatani's vertiginous paintings do everything but actually spin, settin up disorienting and cacophonous rhythms. Maelstroms of shifting pictorial field that pile up to touch the parameters of [...]

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART With casts that are vulnerable variations of seemingly mundane and mute objects, Rachel Whiteread creates poignant and melancholy phantoms. Her skewed selection of themes from domestic [...]

Ben Pranger wistfully transforms found objects with an eye toward making them reveal poetic resonances. He changes contexts, proposes absurd usages, descends to puns, and creates curious conglomerations, all while [...]

Ian McKeever's recent paintings are abstract in the same way spider webs are: though nonfigurative and nonreferential, they reflect patterns drawn from nature. Certain structures and processes become mesmerizing as [...]

Simultaneously conservative and eerie, David Klamen's recent paintings depict curiously quiet scenes enveloped in an amber haze. He conjoins a scrupulous realist technique of the most academic sort with a [...]

UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART Harold Haydon, now in his 84th year, has argued for more than half a century that the spatial and optical traditions of the entire history [...]

Libby Wadsworth's pictorial contributions to the ambiguities of the image/text dichotomy are certainly well-intentioned. Wadsworth attempts to mimic the traditions of old-master still-life painting--a gesture not without its dutiful degree [...]

ZOLLA/LIEBERMAN GALLERY The world of the haunch, hoof, and mane seems largely divorced from the mainstream of modern existence, has, in fact, become a nostalgic trope--the stuff of revery and [...]