Reviews

Murray didn’t just take painting off the wall. She also created shaped, 3-D works on paper invested with the same roiling emotions.

What does it mean to “virtualize” a centuries-old communication medium? CODEX explores the shifting state of the book.

Her art speaks of “the implacability in nature, its sheer, relentless persistence and its beauty, no matter what we humans might do.”

Cape’s “social sculpture” highlights the aesthetic sense and communal leanings of America’s earliest utopians.

Spontaneity and calculation, fantasy and fact alternate in this show of Neo Expressionism and 2nd-gen Chicago Imagism.

With stream-of-consciousness writing and drawing, Wiley continues to map the arguments that take place inside his head.

Chaotic cocktails of representation and abstraction, Wetzl’s works suggest that every stage of human history exists in the present.

This 50-year retrospective, drawn from California collections, takes the measure of one of Abstract Expressionism’s true giants.

What is garbage? What is wealth? Recology’s artists-in-residence dig deep for answers.

The cycle of commerce between Asia and the rest of the world is the focus of the 3rd installment of this series. Sarah Hotchkiss reports.

The default mode of human perception is oversimplification. Fraser’s art reveals the strange consequences.

Low-end tinkering and high-technology combine in kinetic sculpture for a seriocomic view of what’s ailing Planet Earth.

The new neon isn’t dominated by light, but by painting. Yes, painting!

Here are some of Squarecylinder’s favorite shows from the past year, ordered without regard to rank or relative value, just overall goodness worth a backward glance.

Perception — and the quest to expand it — are the focus of “A Bigger Exhibition,” the largest show devoted to a single artist in the museum’s history.

Mixing geometric abstraction with the mannerisms of SoCal car culture, Couwenberg pushes a retro look into the digital future.