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artsy - Of all the 20th-century artists who exerted control over their own markets,  Clyfford Still was arguably the most forceful. In 1951, the  Abstract Expressioniststopped working with galleries and became ...

By Peter Harper Bela Gupta’s large oil on canvas paintings exhibited recently at Artifact question the condition of dynamic spatiality in a historical context. The artist’s overall ideological ambition is to f...

 By Paul Zimmerman In her recent exhibition in New York Marta Wapiennik presented abstract monochromatic paintings and a series of figurative digital works. Working comfortably in both mediums the artist engag...

 Hyperallergic - Retrospectives of long-dead artists are not merely an opportunity to examine how their philosophies and aesthetics match up to the modern day. They are often explicitly sold on the notion of en...

artnet news - Everyone has blood coursing through his or her veins; everyone bleeds. But only women menstruate, and only women know how it feels. So “is a man allowed to deal with women’s questions?” That’s wha...

Hyperallergic - The juxtaposition of Guogu’s concurrent solo shows is a call to substitute a more rigorous and nuanced critical focus for ready-made stereotypical tropes in understanding contemporary Chinese ar...

Hyperallergic - Laleh Khorramian has exploited the iconographic potential of monoprint as a generative process in her studio for some years, using it to make animations that are both epic and intimate.  - read ...

By Peter Harper At the basis of Alejandra Stier’s remarkable new series of large acrylic on canvas paintings exhibited at Artifact (84 Orchard Street, NYC) is the artist’s evident understanding of metamorphosi...