Millicent Young on Ed Kashi

Millicent Young on Ed Kashi

Reflections on a Famed Photojournalist’s Images of Syria What I see first is beauty—saturated colors, an abstraction of forms in the picture plane, vertiginous compositions that plunge me from the immediacy of where I stand in the gallery into another...
A Tribute to Jake Berthot (1939-2015)

A Tribute to Jake Berthot (1939-2015)

A Tribute to Jake Berthot (1939-2015) by Riad Miah I met Jake Berthot in 1992 while I was in my junior year at the School of Visual Arts in New York. I had already discovered his work and fallen in love with it. So much so that I tried copying everything I saw that I...
Joan Linder on Miriam Dym

Joan Linder on Miriam Dym

Joan Linder on Miriam Dym History aside, when I think of an artist whose work I admire and who has had immeasurable impact on my work, I think of Miriam Dym. We met in graduate school nearly two decades ago. She has a particular, and idiosyncratic, vision that engages...
Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines

Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines

Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines “The Brown Dot Project (TBDP),” a series of mine from 2015, has been deeply influenced by the renowned Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines, whose works investigate the way rules-based procedures construct order and meaning....
Annell Livingston on Joanne Mattera

Annell Livingston on Joanne Mattera

Annell Livingston on Joanne Mattera Joanne’s work is about color first, “color beyond color,” color that resonates somewhere deep within me, somewhere beyond the eye. For me, it is to see color from the heart. Usually we see color with our eyes, but with...