Lester Johnson, “Three Transparent Heads” (1961) (all images courtesy of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects) Lester Johnson (1919–2010) was an innovative figurative painter who has never quite fit into ...

The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara’s next art exhibit will feature works by Santa Barbara artist Sophia Beccue. During the past two years, while living through cancer and a global pandemic, ...

Hazmat suits, gloves, a respirator — Fabiola Menchelli needs all of it to handmake her large format art. For her new certain silence project, the artist from Mexico City worked with toxic color ...

German artist Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important—if not the most important—artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His distinctive, large-format abstract paintings and ...

In a cluttered studio on South Flores, weak sunlight from the January morning suffusing two big windows, Sandy Whitby squats over a large canvas stirring a plastic bucket of white house paint. Dressed ...

“We must not be afraid of this word ‘abstract.’ All art is primarily abstract.” Korean art historian Kim Boggi quoted British art historian and philosopher Herbert Read (1893-1968) in the introduction ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...