APRIL 1, 2020 BY CATHERINE KIRKPATRICK Artists on Coping: Helen O’Leary During the Coronavirus pandemic, Art Spiel is reaching out to artists to learn how they are coping. Photo by Eva O’ Leary, Fader Magazine  Helen O’Leary is an Irish-born artist best known for constructions that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture, object and image. She trained […]

March 7, 2020 – July 26, 2020 East Building, Level B, Joyce W. Pope Gallery  Throughout modern art history, painting has been declared dead and later resuscitated so many times that the issue now tends to has largely been ignored. Despite any debate over painting’s viability, artists continue to persevere in keeping the medium fresh […]

Linda Sormin Linda Sormin explores vulnerability, upheaval and change through sculpture and site-responsive installation. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, she immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of five. After working in community development for four years in Thailand and Lao PDR, Sormin studied ceramics at Andrews University, Sheridan College and Alfred University (MFA […]

With clay and glaze, Miles reminds us that we are sensate, animal beings in a physical world.  We don’t just look at his sculptures. We use them.  In our bending and stooping and peeking, we fit ourselves into his corpulent, bristling forms, discovering how art communicates.

Posted on 21 January 2020. by David M. Roth Brad Brown: Clockwise L to R: Piece 308 (Untitled), 2018, oil, basswood, plywood, brads; Piece 69 (Itch), 2004-2012, oil, canvas, masonite; Piece 298 (Untitled), 2012-2018, oil, acrylic, walnut ink, plywood, brads; Piece 170 (Lascaux Thought Balloon), 2004-2017, oil, canvas, masonite, plywood, screws. 12 x 12″ ea.  […]

All of these ceramic works are put through multiple stages of kiln firing: glazed then fired, then, possibly, exploding or breaking apart, then being fired in the kiln again.

  Markus Linnenbrink: Little Journeys and Cosmic Buckshot by Julia Couzens    In the Studio: The Making of HELLOIMYOURNEWTREE Markus Linnenbrink’s dazzlingly seductive work functions like painting, but it isn’t.  Working with epoxy resin, wooden supports, pigment, and a router mobilized by two joysticks, Linnenbrink constructs objects that examine both painting and sculpture.  He […]

This dense show of large prints on felt, titled “Chalk Lines,” was curated by Barbara Takenaga, a painter who shares Amos’s talent for voluptuous, galactic compositions.