by Ann Landi | Apr 17, 2017 | Features
The “genre,” if it is such these days, never really goes away Landscape painting enjoys a long and honorable history in art, going as far back as ancient times, when the Greeks and Romans made frescoes of pleasant vistas and enchanting gardens. There have been periods...
by Ann Landi | Feb 13, 2017 | Features
By Jane Barthes As an artist originally from Europe—and one whose own path did not begin with abstraction—I confess I possessed a rather rudimentary knowledge of geometric abstraction, particularly American hard-edge abstraction. It was at Art Expo in Chicago in 2015...
by Ann Landi | Sep 24, 2016 | Artists Choose Artists
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...
by Ann Landi | Jun 8, 2016 | Editor's Note
On Confronting the New, the Strange, and the Downright Baffling It’s become almost a cliché to say that there is no such thing as an avant-garde anymore, because the term “avant-garde” of necessity implies a notion of beyond the pale, difficult to comprehend, and...
by Ann Landi | Apr 14, 2016 | Features
Another Opening, Another Show Artists find this is a good time to regroup, decompress…or get back to work The opening, duration, and end of a gallery or museum show can be cause for anxiety, depression, obsession, elation, relief, and any number of other emotional...
