A grainy, foggy image of a tree, which has half-fallen into a river.

Enacting Arcadia

Once, not so very long ago, photographs were indicators of veracity.

Large rock-like objects hover somewhere between 2- and 3-D, before a warm, yellow-orange light.

Where We Stand

Top-heavy and improbably balanced, the risky equilibrium of these boulders threatens imminent collapse, and the perspective is disturbingly uncertain.

A still life of a candle, nearly burnt out, beside slices of lemon, an onion, and several preserved goods in jars.

In the Last Light

The centerpiece of the exhibition is a group of heroically-scaled works of luxuriant foliage.

A figure with their brunette hair in a bun, wearing an open-backed dress, faces away from the viewer, their head slightly tilted.

Red Boys and Green Girls

These works by Rubin are additionally meditations on the practice of painting, demonstrating how a few, sure brushstrokes can be used to suggest light falling on form, defining a mental state or conjuring a mood.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES | Going Through the Motions: Speculations on Birth in Patricia Piccinini’s The Awakening

by Janine Sun Rogers
Posted on December 16, 2021December 16, 2021

A surreal birthing video situates viewers in an uncomfortable, yet fruitful space.

On the surface of a square with crude edges radiate exact circles, etched into what looks like a rose gold brass, from the center to the far edges.

Datum

Ironically and satisfyingly, the highly intellectual process of creating these works — grounded in physics and color theory — generates supremely sensuous and transcendent paintings.

An orb, with triangular rays of mellow blues and yellows, is a hollow brown mass at its center.

Color Study

In every instance, these works are remarkable not only for the gorgeousness of color and mysteriousness of process, but also because of the tranquility they exude.

Just behind an infinitely diverse grid of color, a topography materializes, organize textures othered by a digital haze.

WHERE WE ARE

The jumping-off place are artworks referring to lexicons or cartography, which become metaphors for finding our place in the universe.

Blue, yellow and red lightning bolts of color interrupt a background of otherwise fluid, textured, multicolored ripples—in the foreground and center, an oval of white, the outlines of curved letters and shapes seemingly sketched and then erased.

William T. Wiley: MONUMENTAL

Though frequently political, his work adamantly resists classification into movements or stylistic trends.

Review

Going Through the Motions: Speculations on Birth in Patricia Piccinini’s The Awakening

by Janine Sun Rogers
Posted on July 20, 2021September 14, 2021