Under the radar
Andrea Broyles
There is a gentle mystery in all of Andrea Broyles’ work, whether on paper or canvas or in any number of sculptural mediums, from clay to resin. The art historian in me wants to relate her to Surrealism, but her realm of fantasy seems…
Anne Lindberg
I first encountered Anne Lindberg’s work about seven years ago, when she was in residence at the Omi International Art Center in upstate New York, and then a few months later, while she was…
Phillis Ideal
Phillis Ideal knows how to do a wonderful studio visit and interview. I meant to begin this profile in standard journalese, saying something like…
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…
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…
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 in…
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…
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…
Don Porcaro
Don Porcaro has described his sculptures as occupying a psychic space somewhere between that of “the monster and the child.” They have…
Jamie Hamilton
Five years ago, while rock climbing in upstate New York, Jamie Hamilton fell about 45 feet and lived to tell the tale. “I landed on my butt, and I bounced to my feet,” he recalls. “The impact literally caused me to bounce.”
Carol Rose Brown
Carol Rose Brown has been through several metamorphoses as an artist. She started showing while still in her twenties and working at an office job in the Brooklyn Museum. One of her first exhibitions, at the adventurous Sidney Janis Gallery in the mid-1960s, was a light show about Marilyn Monroe.
Andrew John Cecil
As Andrew John Cecil was finishing up his M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art in the early 1980s, at a time when all his friends seemed headed for careers in New York, he made the very conscious decision to…
Photo credit: Joe Fig Self Portrait: Collinsville, 12 ½” x 31 ½” x 21”, Mixed Media, 2013. Courtesy Cristin Tierney Gallery