What I love about Robert Minervini’s paintings are how they grab your attention and draw you closer – so that your nose is nearly touching the canvass in order to eye all the complexities of his process. We spoke over the phone, just before he was getting the last of [read more...]
I love these graphite on black paper works from the 2011 “Library of Babel” series by Snejina Latev. I love the graphic pixelation, the abstract geometries, the black-on-black composition and the fact that the artist is working with a solid concept. About the work (from the artist’s site):
Based on the story by Jorge [read more...]
Baltimore-based artist Steven Riddle recently emailed to share some images of his work with me. What immediately struck me about the work was his sense of color and geometry. Rock formations, mineral clusters and geodes are placed in stellar formations that suggest some sort of inter-galactic composition. I wanted to learn more, so I asked [read more...]
When the curator for NOMA Gallery shared the work of Karl Haendel with me, I was convinced they were photographs. Haendel culled the imagery for these intensely realistic, painstakingly rendered graphite drawings from personal and cultural sources. The images are from his summer 2009 show with Harris Lieberman in New York City. Touching [read more...]

