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1 week ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |John Yau |Debra Brehmer |Alexis Clements
Some of our favorite shows this week are all about giving new life to old things and looking at our environments from a different perspective: creative reuse, recycling and repurposing objects, and re-envisioning architecture as inviting and inclusive.
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hyperallergic.com | John Yau
I first saw Xingzi Gu’s vaporous paintings of adolescents on the brink of adulthood at the artist’s MFA show at New York University. The child of artists living and working in Nanjing, Gu left China to study art in New Zealand after high school before moving to New York for graduate school.
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang |John Yau |Daniel Larkin |Mána Taylor
The artists we’re highlighting this week have diverse practices, ranging from the earthy, unglazed ceramics of Stanley Rosen to the complex, multicolored tapestries of Kenny Nguyen to the embroidered textile-photographs of Spandita Malik, but all share a desire to express personal preoccupations, personalities, and concerns through their art.
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |Lisa Zhang |John Yau |Daniel Larkin |Mána Taylor
Posted inArt Review From ceramic alligators to Nordic traditions, artists focusing on personal concerns and identity are making some fascinating work.
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | John Yau
Stanley Rosen was 90 years old and had been making ceramic sculpture since the mid-1950s when he first exhibited his work in a commercial gallery in 2017. Decades earlier, Rose Slivka had identified his work as groundbreaking in the article, “The New Ceramic Presence” (Craft Horizons, July/August 1961), which called attention to a group of ceramic artists making innovative work that broke with the past and its focus on functional objects.
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2 weeks ago | 
hyperallergic.com | John Yau
BETHANY, Connecticut — Shortly after I met Peter Sharp and Michelle Cawthorn, Australian artists who had been awarded a two-month residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, they invited me to visit, saying they would make sure I could come to the “Vault” and see little known Albers works. A few days later, I wrote to Peter to plan the trip.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | John Yau
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — I first saw Lori Larusso’s paintings in 2004, when she was a graduate student in the MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and I was finishing my last semester of teaching there. Before I left, I did something unprecedented for myself: I bought two of her paintings. One portrayed a melting chocolate ice cream cone with a childlike face, placed upside-down on a dish, and the other was of two frosted coconut cakes set against a creamy white ground.
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hyperallergic.com | John Yau
Suellen Rocca was one of the original six artists who comprised the Hairy Who. The Chicago artist group exhibited three times in the city between 1966 and ’68, then, in 1969, Walter Hopps curated the final Hairy Who show at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. Nearly six decades later, what continues to impress me about these artists is that they each developed an individual visual language, and started tracing this trajectory at the outset of their careers.
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1 month ago | 
hyperallergic.com | John Yau
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. CHICAGO — In 1951, the French painter, sculptor, and Art Brut founder Jean Dubuffet delivered a lecture at the Chicago Arts Club titled “Anti-Cultural Positions.” There, he said that the only Chicago artist he wanted to meet was Ivan Albright, “the master of the macabre,” who was known for his morbidly detailed depictions of the human figure.
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2 months ago | 
hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Lisa Zhang |John Yau |Seph Rodney |Alexandra Thomas
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than encountering the work of a creative force. Our favorite shows this week are each centered on a single figure. Some are visual artists, ranging from historical innovators (Volodymyr Tatlin) to under-appreciated names (Judy Linn) to perhaps unknown names (Abraham Lincoln Walker).
