April 22, 2024 by Lane Timothy Speidel

Spring is Coming, in Dona Nelson’s ‘Selected Paintings, 2019-2023’ at Locks Gallery

In the bold and beautiful paintings of Dona Nelson, Lane Timothy Speidel finds optimism and spring-time hope after a long hard winter. Speidel’s poetic review explains Nelson sees themself as an intermediary.

December 12, 2022 by Lauren Whearty

Eleanor Conover, elusive abstractions with bold materiality, in ‘Side Angle Tide’ at List Gallery, Swarthmore

Our new contributor Lauren Whearty writes that Eleanor Conover’s paintings are body-referencing in size, and the abstractions on shaped canvases, while slippery in meaning, have rich and dense materiality including in some cases a saw blade and wooden blocks.

November 23, 2021 by Susan Isaacs

‘Seeing Climate Change’ with artist-activist Diane Burko at American University Museum

In her review, Susan Isaacs calls Diane Burko’s art an activist response to the call to arms to save the planet. “Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change,” on view until Dec. 12, 2021, at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, is a wide-ranging overview of Burko’s beautiful abstract, photography- and map-linked paintings of eco-catastrophes today (melting glaciers, dying coral reefs).

March 5, 2021 by Corey Qureshi

Magical and visceral, 12 Gates Arts embraces ‘A Space for Monsters’

Artblog contributor Corey Qureshi visits 12 Gates Arts’s “A Space for Monsters,” inspired by the hybrid poetry-novel “Incubation: A Space For Monsters” by Bhanu Kapil.

September 14, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

Monumental paintings and never-before-seen sculptures wow at travelling Jack Whitten retrospective

Andrea Kirsh gives her take on the late, great Jack Whitten’s newest retrospective. The exhibition, which focuses on the artist’s richly-textured wood sculptures and African-inspired assemblages originated at the Baltimore Museum of art and is now turning heads at the Met through December 2, 2018.