Peter Frank

San Francisco painter William Swanson seems to belong to that rapidly expanding roster of “digital landscape painters” — artists whose renditions of objects in space are grounded in the graphic language of the computer screen, and whose work is suffused with architectural tropes (right down to the paste-ins). But Swanson’s......

Just because they’re “portraits” doesn’t mean they’re portraits of people. Placing Lucas Reiner’s paintings of lone trees and George Stoll’s small sculptures replicating common objects (a sponge, a cup, a box of Woolite) by and near the single-figure paintings of Dan McCleary focuses our attention on the individuality, even the......

Hippie king and self-proclaimed Zen master, Anton Heyboer was his own worst enemy. Grandiose, idealistic and eager to push the envelope in every direction, he resisted and sabotaged commercial and curatorial efforts to bring his work its due. Two years after his death, he is still barely known outside Holland......

Florian Meier-Aichen’s photographs are of places, not occurrences, but the way he makes his pictures — not just shoots them, but treats them in between shutter click and print-out — gives the places he documents an eerie momentousness. He favors subjects that have become photographic tropes: seascapes, mountain vistas, industrial......

“The Habit of Innovation” introduces the parallel world of Brooklyn-based cousins Brian and Leon Dewan to an L.A. audience all too ready for their retro-tech trip into midcentury futurism. Assisted by techie Leon, Brian conjures up dorky hybrids of living-room furniture, ecclesiastical cabinets and old-timey radio consoles; the elaborate structures......