Christopher Miles

There are some things to forgive in the first U.S. survey of work by Ethiopian artist Elias Sime, like Peter Sellars dominating Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ otherwise interesting documentary about Sime’s sculpted home, or the fact that one of the artist’s most amazing pieces, a horde of small figures......

Strategies of appropriation and plays with found objects and images push into cultural conflation, convergence and cannibalism in this sleeper of a group show. Nathan Mabry, known for witty and impeccably crafted mashes of forms duplicated or derived from far corners of art history and the globe, takes the eccentricity......

An artist whose practice was forged among latter-day abstract expressionism, postminimalism’s hybrid and experimental approaches to painting, and the nascent feminist art movement(s) with the accompanying tide of bodily and domestic themes, Joan Snyder couldn’t be accused of being subtle with her imagery. Her current exhibition at SolwayJones is, shockingly,......

As much a master of assemblage as of theatrical showmanship, Elliott Hundley flexes his chops in his first solo show with Regen Projects by dipping into the bloody tragedy of Euripides’ Hekabe. Hundley re-imagines the tale of grief, retribution, and comeuppance in epic fullness with photo transparencies, paintings, and both......

Brad Eberhard pits his practice, and the feeling you get from his paintings, between flux and control — laying down paint in washes, dispersals and smudges, but wrangling it by masking, or by painting over so as to crop or recontour one shape with the next. The results are compositions......

Jackson Pollock believed technique must suit its age; his own technique, he said, was fit for the age of the “airplane, the atom bomb, the radio” — all object lessons in a radical reshuffling of man’s existential position. With a kind of verve no doubt fed by digital culture, sci-fi,......

A first round of press releases announced the lineup for this show, guest-curated by Kristine McKenna, as a trio to include two late West Coast artists represented by the Michael Kohn Gallery (Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner), a bankable New York artist (Richard Prince), and one common denominator: The oeuvres......

At a moment when so much of the interaction between cultures and nations gets described with terms like “clash” or “versus,” Renée Petropoulos’ current show at Rosamund Felsen Gallery takes time — and asks us to take time to consider blends, weaves, grafts and splices, as well as the odd......

A sculptor I know, who came out of art school at the height of minimalism in the late 1960s, once told me how a next generation of artists began to realize the impossibility of creating pure form that eschewed reference. This, he reasoned, was the natural response of artists rethinking......

Imagine an alternate ending in which Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma, the Woodsman and the Big Bad Wolf join forces in a sewing circle to create an army of spawn from the detritus of the urban/industrial world encroaching on their simple way of life, and you might get an idea......