Press & Media
“Radcliffe Bailey at Jack Shainman – Brief Article,” Art in America
In this new body of work, Atlanta-based artist Radcliffe Bailey plays dynamic movement around a still center. As a whole, these monumental canvases are full of activity–snatches of grid underlie sinuous lines and tangled marks that suggest diagrams, road maps, networks of synapses or meandering plant tendrils.
“MORE THAN YOU KNOW – The Quiet Art of Whitfield Lovell, ” The Massachusetts Review
There are stories here, stories to be narrated by each of Whitfield Lovell’s spare renderings of humanity. It is the use of juxtaposition that one might notice first – that each piece is composed of a charcoal or crayon drawing on a slate of wood or cream paper, and an artifact, a found object from everyday life (a figurine, a bit of rope, a chain, a knife, a fabric bouquet). The composition is clean, as if portrait and artifact are located near each other without abrasion or overlap.
“The Ambiguity of the Unseen,” N.O.A.R.
“The Viability of Glass,” N.O.A.R.
“Learning the Alphabet,” N.O.A.R.
“Patterns of Perspective,” N.O.A.R.
“John Alexander at Corcoran Gallery of Art,” Express Night Out
Political careers aren’t the only kind born in D.C. Painter John Alexander credits the city with starting his ascent in the art world. He displayed his work at the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s 35th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting in 1977, after then-Corcoran curator Jane Livingston visited Texas and saw his work.
“Sacred Grove,” Ind.com
John Geldersma is quick to lead you around the room, explaining the purpose of his totemic sculptures, inverted poles that stand like serpents rearing on their tails which have sprouted archaic geometric heads. “See that slit?” He points to a vertical slot carved into the head of a piece. “It’s a sight.”
“Fierceness and Fragility: A Conversation with Lesley Dill,” Sculpture
Lesley Dill’s sculptures made an impression on me some years ago at Graphic Studio in Tampa, particularly a tea-stained, paper dress that popped outward to become three-dimensional. A large traveling exhibition of her work—recently shown at the Saint Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts and on view at the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina through January 3, 2011—features numerous sculptures made of metal, paper, photographs, and fabric with seamless transitions from one medium to another. Dill integrates words, myth, and ideas with a variety of materials to attract and involve the viewer.