by Ann Landi | May 8, 2016 | Under the Radar
Marc Baseman The world according to Marc Baseman is a strange, crowded, and mysterious place. In his tiny drawings—usually less than three inches on a side—a cast of odd characters and objects competes for our attention: birds and rodents, guys in business suits, a...
by Ann Landi | May 1, 2016 | Under the Radar
Martha Russo A tour of Martha Russo’s retrospective at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary art in Boulder, CO, is somewhat like a visit to admire the creepy-crawlies in a ten-year-old boy’s bedroom. There is a giant, slithery sculpture on the floor that looks a...
by Ann Landi | Apr 22, 2016 | Under the Radar
Kate Petley Kate Petley’s glowing and lyrically reticent abstractions come about through a complex process that weds state-of-the-art digital with old-fashioned gestural painting, and sometimes it’s difficult to see where one leaves off and the other kicks...
by Ann Landi | Apr 17, 2016 | Under the Radar
Michelle Cooke Like many contemporary artists, Michelle Cooke prefers not to confine herself to any one subject or any one way of realizing an idea. She has worked with glass, aluminum, feathers, brass, gemstones, and barbed wire, as well as the traditional mediums of...
by Ann Landi | Apr 11, 2016 | Under the Radar
Dora Dillistone “These are literal landscapes,” says Dora Dillistone of the works on paper that have been her focus for the past few years. “They’re made by the land and the elements and can never be repeated. I’m just the coordinator.”The artist “makes” each painting...