Remembering Kelly Mark
The artist Kelly Mark, prolific and beloved, left us on February 21, 2025. In spending time with her art these past weeks, I have…
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Artists in Isolation: Lynne Cohen and the Fullness of Empty Space
There’s one image of a bed dressed in bleached sheets sanitized to a crisp, with a thin, folded blanket at the foot, in an…
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The Signs for Where We Meet: A Conversation Between Robert Fones and James Kirkpatrick
At the center of contemporary art, there is increasingly the absence of any center at all. We are flown wide, work digitally, and shuttle…
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Painting “From Here”: Susanna Heller at Olga Korper
Whatever specificity of place can be found in Susanna Heller’s paintings at Olga Korper Gallery shimmers with Wallace Stevens’s line, “Description is revelation. It…
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Mark Ruwedel’s Desert History, as Fugitive Present
“I’ll show you fear in a handful of dust.” – T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland …
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Cohering His Compulsions: Ken Nicol Advances at Olga Korper
Over five years, from 1992 to 1997, Tom Friedman produced 1000 Hours of Staring, a work of pure intention and immaculate material. A blank…
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