From elemental materials like alabaster, quartz, garnet, and bronze, Debra Baxter assembles jewel-like sculptures that explore consciousness, nature, anatomy, and spirituality. For her most recent body of work on view [...]
Friedrich Kunath describes that he aims to make his paintings “feel like songs.” The logo for the band Oasis turns up in a top corner of “Sometimes I’m Almost There,” [...]
The most reflective element on Earth, silver has transformed the ways in which humans perceive, record, and understand the world. Presented on the occasion of the Houston Center for Contemporary [...]
Through brilliant oranges and moody shades of blue, Los Angeles-based artist Roberta Gentry renders vivid, balanced compositions that, as she says, take the senses seriously. Gentry has long been interested [...]
A figure appears to have been subsumed by a bookcase, and another is swathed in a green sleeping bag beneath a makeshift tent. Whether navigating a bathtub fitted with oars [...]
In Mesoamerican folklore, the jaguar is a prominent nagual, a being with the power to morph into an animal. Moving from one realm into another allows this hybrid creature to [...]
A decade ago or so, parents were finding loom bands in the couch cushions and underfoot during a craze for the analog toys. Kids made bracelets and other items, and [...]
Have you ever imagined a pear or an apple with a personality? If the fruit suddenly had two eyes and a stem-like nose, it might look a little like PÉPET, [...]
Although there’s no official count, the amount of World War II bunkers, battery platforms, defensive bollards, and other structures found along European coastlines probably number in the tens of thousands. [...]
As deep swells from an offshore hurricane were further empowered by king tides in Southern California over the past several days, residents experienced firsthand the impacts of human-generated climate change. [...]