Reviews

Asia’s oldest, largest and most prestigious international art biennial delivers on its promise. Mark Van Proyen reports.

Iconic Bay Area painters whose work embodies the tug-o-war between abstraction and representation.

The superhero — from a Latino perspective.

A first-rate art fair that leaned a bit toward glitz. What fair doesn’t? Julia Couzens sorts out the good stuff.

What does the future of photography look like? You’re staring at it. It’s the Internet.

Augmented Reality suspends gravity, motion and building codes. A 12-block urban installation demonstrates.

With a polyrhythmic approach to composition, Emerson bends and fractures the space within the frame.

Low-res video images projected onto walls and resin reliefs produce near-mystical experiences.

Poised between ominous children’s toys and sophisticated constructions, Putnam’s work elicits humor, pathos, repulsion and play.

Overfelt’s hopped up Trans Am awakens the speed-crazed teenager in all of us, while warning of the consequences of unquenched consumption.

The apparent off-hand ease in Crosby’s entanglements of line shows his skill and rigor as a painter.

Her glowing cosmic iconography puts a fresh spin on notions of the “New Sublime”

With an energy that “hovers between joy and rage” Rosen continues to stretch the boundaries of ceramic sculpture.

Mixing Surrealism and Dadaism her textile-based sculptures seduce by summoning contradictory associations.

Pastine’s paintings turn the human body into a tuning fork, and the gallery into a vivid sensorium.

McCarthy’s paintings appear ad hoc, but are carefully considered. Sharaf’s are gawky accretions of preppy color, barely but bravely held in coherence.