Somewhere along the east wall of PaceWildenstein’s 57th Street Gallery tin foil lies on the floor, rolled up in a small ball. With a step or two, you find a grid of eight columns and eight rows of diagonally cut pieces of silver painted wood arranged in no apparent order on the ground. If you […]

Our family has four members, and all of us are artists. Anna Torma, my mother, uses silk and fabric to make wonderfully complicated works that are part drawing, part collage, and part textile art. Her works are made using traditional hand embroidery combined with the use of found fabrics. She has also saved every childhood […]

I’ve always wanted to be a photographer, not an artist. For as long as I’ve been taking pictures, I’ve wanted to catch a glimpse of how artists see the world. My favorite subjects have been those who possess that creative spirit that makes them human beings in search of something new to say about the […]

For those living outside the Lone Star state, the idea of organizing a significant show of contemporary Aboriginal art within the regional center of San Antonio might not seem apparent. Such reservations melt upon entering the newly installed Lam Collection of Aboriginal Art, inspired by the creative spirit of philanthropist and art patron May Lam […]

Stephen Kasner’s work evokes the peaceful melancholy of impending violence. I have always felt this same sense of impending violence to be inherent in our culture. It is the feeling you get if you know something quite horrible is going to happen to you, but but then again maybe it won’t. Living in a country […]

One of the many virtues of this exhibition is that it convincingly demonstrates its central premise: that the cross-fertilization of ideas of our three hEROS was of inestimable value to the evolution of modern art. The force of their intelligence, channeled between Europe and America from 1913 to the present, still sends shock waves to […]

Drawing is a tool for the free production of images; it can be an automatic practice. It’s a primary activity, like eating or sleeping. With a pen I can go anywhere. Everything starts with a pen and a piece of paper, and then spreads to fill up spaces. Following the outline of a figure with […]

The paintings of Tomma Abts depend upon a tense equipoise of material, and visual and temporal contradictions. The eponymous exhibition currently at the New Museum appropriately complements the concentration of its individual pieces. The show includes 15 dense, geometric abstractions, each in oil and acrylic on canvas, all of which are small (18 7/8 by […]

Hidden away in the flatlands of north Texas lies the city of Dallas, a large metropolis noteworthy now more than ever for a growing museum network with large holdings of contemporary art in the downtown arts district; it’s a hub flanked on various sides with young commercial gallery spaces. Fueled by a national interest in […]

In the early 90s, under the influence of Zen philosophy, I became interested in traditional Chinese imagery. I completed a series of oil paintings titled Short Chinese Language Schoolbook, which was the textbook for primary school in the late Qing dynasty. I used the original colors from the book but updated the subjects. The book […]