by Ann Landi | Feb 5, 2016 | Under the Radar
Lorrie Fredette “I used to be a secret reader of the New York Times Tuesday ‘Science’ section,” says Lorrie Fredette. “I don’t always understand what I’m reading, so my way into understanding is to go make something, to give it three-dimensional form.” Since...
by Ann Landi | Jan 29, 2016 | Under the Radar
Barbara Rachko Barbara Rachko’s first career was about as far from the world of art as you can get. The daughter of working-class parents in suburban New Jersey, she earned her private pilot’s license at the age of 25 and then spent seven years in the...
by Ann Landi | Jan 22, 2016 | Under the Radar
Mark Sheinkman When I first met Mark Sheinkman nearly 20 years ago, he was making drawings with limited means—graphite, charcoal, erasers, and paper—and that choice of the most basic of tools has not changed much in two decades. His works are still predominantly black...
by Ann Landi | Jan 13, 2016 | Under the Radar
Elisabeth Condon “I never wanted to be a flower painter. I wanted to be a tough, cool painter,” says Elisabeth Condon in her fifth-floor studio on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where she is surrounded by several large canvases that incorporate, yes, flowers—lush...
by Ann Landi | Dec 17, 2015 | Under the Radar
Jonathan Morse For Jonathan Morse, digital prints are every bit as original as statements as a painting or drawing realized through traditional means. Yet his works, mostly abstractions made in their entirety on the computer, incorporate many of the elements familiar...
by Ann Landi | Dec 11, 2015 | Under the Radar
Ted Larsen For the first decade or so of his career, Santa Fe-based artist Ted Larsen had been working successfully in a style he describes as “abstracted landscape.” Then in the late 1990s came a period of profound searching and dissatisfaction. “There were a...
