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Reading the Surface: A Close Look at Three Paintings by Lib Mason

Reading the Surface: A Close Look at Three Paintings by Lib Mason

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

Evelyn Prescott
Aug 28, 2026
Lines, Consumption, and the Body: The Artistic World of Michael Kaphengst

Lines, Consumption, and the Body: The Artistic World of Michael Kaphengst

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

Evelyn Prescott
Aug 21, 2026
Beyond Likeness: The Portraiture of Sylvianne Blum Cassereau

Beyond Likeness: The Portraiture of Sylvianne Blum Cassereau

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

Evelyn Prescott
Aug 18, 2026
What the Land Remembers: Michael Aldag and the Photography of Vanished Churches

What the Land Remembers: Michael Aldag and the Photography of Vanished Churches

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,

Evelyn Prescott
Aug 8, 2026
Iker Valle: Exploring Matter, Color, and Abstraction

Iker Valle: Exploring Matter, Color, and Abstraction

Iker Valle is a contemporary artist whose practice is centered on painting and an ongoing exploration of materials, textures, color, and abstract forms. His work reflects a strong

Evelyn Prescott
Jul 26, 2026
Josep Maria Fontanet Sureda: Painting the Mystery of Light, Time, and Reality

Josep Maria Fontanet Sureda: Painting the Mystery of Light, Time, and Reality

Josep Maria Fontanet Sureda is a contemporary Spanish painter whose artistic practice is rooted in a deeply personal exploration of realism, light, atmosphere, and the changing nature of

Meredith Langston
Jul 26, 2026
Sandi Charlton Wells: Bringing the Stories of Africa to Life Through Expressionist Painting

Sandi Charlton Wells: Bringing the Stories of Africa to Life Through Expressionist Painting

Sandi Charlton Wells is a passionate contemporary artist whose work is rooted in African Expressionism, a vibrant and emotionally charged approach that allows her to explore the people,

Sabrina Hollis
Jul 26, 2026
Robin Van Der Walt: Where Words and Images Explore the Human Condition

Robin Van Der Walt: Where Words and Images Explore the Human Condition

Robin Van Der Walt is an artist whose distinctive practice brings together drawing, poetry, written reflection, and emotional storytelling. Working primarily with ballpoint pen and ink on paper,

Evelyn Prescott
Jul 15, 2026
Olga Bazanova: Painting With Tenderness, Light, and a Spirit of Discovery

Olga Bazanova: Painting With Tenderness, Light, and a Spirit of Discovery

Olga Bazanova is a contemporary Russian painter based in South Africa whose artistic journey reflects a lifelong devotion to painting, continuous learning, and creative exploration. From an early

Meredith Langston
Jun 23, 2026
From Universal Visual World Language to Global Cross-cultural Dialogue

From Universal Visual World Language to Global Cross-cultural Dialogue

On abstraction and its enduring legacies By Isabel Wünsche In Representing and Interpreting Abstraction Today (Magütt Publishing, 2024), a volume of essays edited by Alessandro Ferraro, a range of authors including artist

Meredith Langston
Mar 13, 2026

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