The paintings invert Mehretu’s usual approach (of applying black markings on a colored background) by adopting a black canvas with metallic strokes, which blend a graffiti-like aesthetic across ...

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A bloody shade of red, the artist’s signature color, mixed from an oil paint base of alizarin crimson, is pervasive in the abstract work ... A trio of large paintings hanging in the Venice ...

The world creates a context for life, within which everything is shaped by concepts. We see the world in a way that everything within it should make sense. However, Visual Arts Chair and Associate Pro ...

A notorious graffiti tagger in Seattle is making amends for his past transgressions by becoming part of the solution—cleaning ...

Steven Jiang rode the L to school in the Loop, never noticing the art all around. One day, he did. And gradually he came to ...

Adam Smith has long drawn inspiration from the island and found the serenity needed to create on its sandy shores and in its ...

Smith employs abstract repetition to push up against an image without fully crossing over. He may have been guided by Chicago’s preoccupation with the distorted figure, but where he has gone is ...