Minimalism, despite its nomenclature, has been teaching us for decades that there is more to simplicity than meets the eye, even if what meets the eye is sometimes barely much of anything at all.
A suite of new, large-scale paintings by Jim Richard reveals an artist at the height of his powers of composition and technique.
Circuses are quite disturbing. They are places of wonderment, but as children we were both terrified of clowns. It is all sweat and sawdust, and also like a parallel universe.
Allison Stewart says she entered the art world through the back door, and there’s truth in the statement. When Stewart began a master’s program in painting at the University of New Orleans, her prior exposure to the visual arts was through her undergraduate studies — in biology.
The work of Bosnian-born painter Amer Kobaslija, who lives in Florida, slips smoothly into the long-flowing Bay Area art current of intimate figuration.
