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Girls Rule Contemporary Abstraction

The quest to find emerging female abstract painters at galleries, museums and fairs can be daunting. Many girl painters are drawn to figuration and a narrative. Recently, passing WINDOW on Walker ...

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...

Callum Innes' Painting and Unpainting

Scottish painter Callum Innes is an ideal artist for us to pay attention to during our current, shall we say, apocalyptic time. After all, the word apocalypse, in the original Greek, only means to...

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...

The Blue Rhythms of Idris Khan

The work of British artist Idris Khan deals with accumulation and compression. Khan accumulates visual content from the material framework of his everyday experiences—photographs of buildings, pag...

Janet Echelman’s Monumental Hanging Abstractions

A new, monumental, outdoor art installation recently premiered in the air space above The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong. Titled Earthtime 1.26 (Hong Kong), it is the newest work by Janet Echelman, ...

Anton Ginzburg’s Interpretations of Eastern Europe's Modernist-Formal Vocabulary

For the past few years, Russian-born multi-media artist Anton Ginzburg has been exploring novel ways to bridge trends in global contemporary art with the aesthetic principles of early Russian Mode...

Connecting Points of Milan Houser

Czech artist Milan Houser is proving himself to be a perfect aesthetic representative of this era, in which humanity more and more seeks beauty and meaning in ambiguity. So much is known that we l...

The Systematic Paintings of Paul Mogensen

Paul Mogensen creates pared down visual compositions based on simple mathematical systems. He expresses those systems through structured arrangements of squares, rectangles and lines. Each image h...

Why Mark Grotjahn Is In Focus These Days

Mark Grotjahn is one of the most loved and most hated artists of our time. He is loved not for his art, primarily, but for how that art has made a lot of powerful art collectors and dealers rich (...

Why Liz Nielsen’s Photography Is So Unusual

Liz Nielsen is part photographer, part conjurer. She coaxes into existence vividly colored photograms from the pitch dark confines of her analog photographic dark room. The images that emerge out ...