by Ann Landi | Feb 24, 2020 | Features
In looking over the images from Part One of this post, and from those below, it occurred to me how often art made from found objects and random detritus has a childlike quality about it, even though the trained eye knows there’s a sophisticated vision behind the...
by Ann Landi | Feb 9, 2020 | Under the Radar
For most of her career, Claire Lieberman’s sculpture has walked a fine line between beauty and danger, seduction and destruction. Take her last show at Massey Klein Gallery in New York, for example, aptly titled “Unidentified Dangerous Beautiful Objects.” Elegantly...
by Ann Landi | Feb 9, 2020 | Features, Photography Portfolio
When I first saw Jeff Baker’s photos, at his home and studio in Taos, NM, about five years ago, I immediately thought of Aaron Siskind, the photographer most closely associated with mid-century American abstraction. In many of his black-and-white images, Siskind...
by Ann Landi | Feb 8, 2020 | Features
The whole notion of recycling seems a very up-to-the-minute politically correct attitude for art in this day and age. And yet the tradition of integrating all manner of stuff from the real world into sculpture and onto two-dimensional surfaces begins more than a...
by Ann Landi | Jan 22, 2020 | Vasari21 Radio
Michelle Cooke Art helps people heal. SoundCloud Facebook Like many artists, Michelle Cooke has spent a large part of her career employed as a teacher both part and full time. But for the last several years, as director of the visual arts program for the Hudson Valley...
