Look at a Lib Mason painting before you know anything about it, and the first thing you’ll register is color, saturated, confident, almost decorative. It takes a second look to
Some artists arrive at their signature ideas through study alone. Michael Kaphengst arrived at his through a fencing foil, a roll of set-marking tape, and years spent behind a bar
Portraiture has always carried an uneasy double burden: to record what someone looks like, and somehow, simultaneously, to suggest who they are. Most portraits fail at the second task even
Michael Aldag has built his photographic practice on a simple but demanding premise: pay close attention to the place you’re from. For Aldag, that place is Southern Illinois, a region