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Sterling Ruby: The TURBINE Trailblazer

Sterling Ruby looks like the kind of Los Angeles artist you would expect; Dutch American surfer good looks with a Kurt Cobain grunge edge. He’s that super cool dude/artist you love to hate and hat...

8 Contemporary Abstract Artists To Watch in 2021

2020 was truly apocalyptic, in the original sense of the word: meaning it was a year of revelation about who and what we are. Moving forward, I am curious to know who else, and what else, we might...

Ten Latinx Abstract Artists To Know Right Now

Reflecting the cultural diversity of its surroundings has been central to the mission of BRIC (formerly Brooklyn Information & Culture) since it was founded in 1979. Their latest exhibition, L...

6 Important South Asian Female Abstract Artists

Yet another museum exhibition sidelined by the COVID-19 Pandemic is Fault Lines: Contemporary Abstraction by Artists from South Asia, which opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in early spring...

The Most Influential Living African American Abstract Artists

African American abstract artists - especially those descended from slaves - face continual pressure, from both inside and outside, to make their identity a central part of their work. This pressu...

6 Online Exhibitions of Abstract Art To See Right Now

The art field has had to quickly shift to an online model in response to COVID-19. The downside is that any art institution unable, or unwilling, to make the shift could cease to be relevant, or c...

Charlotte Park, An Abstract Artist To Know

I find familiar things in the work of Charlotte Park. I see in her paintings an almost boundless anxiety and searching, replaced in certain moments by a quietude or stillness, but always confident...

The Most Important Abstract Artists of the 21st Century – So Far

If you are anything like me, even though I wrote the piece, you may be a little bothered by the title of this article. How, only two decades in, can I possibly know who the most important artists ...

Four Finalists Win the Turner Prize

For the first time ever last year, the Turner Prize had four winners. Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani were all hailed as the 2019 winners. Four Finalists Win the Tu...

Artist in Spotlight - Cyril Lancelin

French artist Cyril Lancelin makes hybrid sculptures that might make a person question whether there is really any difference between art, architecture and toys. Lancelin is a specialist in specta...

How Ken Kelleher Digitally Reimagines Public Spaces with Abstract Art

Ken Kelleher is one of the most misunderstood artists of our time. Most people who claim to be fans of his work do not even seem to know exactly what it is that he does. Trained as a sculptor at A...