The paradox this show exposes is that the more carefully you look at something, the more it disappears.

…allowing the viewer to pause between paintings to consider the distinction of what takes place in the dark and the celebratory color of the chosen family paintings…

The resulting dreamlike symbolist quality, nevertheless, portrayed the real. In contrast, Berggruen’s color is more vibrant and her ability to render depth never evaporates…

However, for folks entering into the space as a room less traveled, one that presents its viewer with a brand new type of vocabulary, there is an opportunity for new types of connection to be made…

Self-portraits add to the show's central theme of unflinching honesty intertwined with self-actualization.

A viewer who wants answers will not find them here, at least not explicitly. Vazquez Avila isn’t trying to share something he understands and has chosen to depict. Rather, he beckons us toward a courtship…

…between neon trees backdropped by a marbled color field of leaf green, sitting in a meditative lotus posture, the Traumanaut looks honorably toward a Thil dorka…

Throwing an aesthetic style onto a fanny pack, as Cook did, doesn't necessarily mean anything. Perhaps your reading of the perceived signifiers are projections…

Reafsnyder reminds us of what is possible today in a similar society, but in a very different way. He exchanges today's fallacy of efficiency for the magic of making with one's hands…

Faith has a unique finesse of color connection, creating harmonious gradients and organic shapes using the innate hues from the maps…

…aggrandizing mass-produced toys and trophies, nostalgic for a great American past that the artist hints is ambiguous at best.

As a newly accepted studio artist, I’ve become both an insider, part of this creative building, and still an outsider in many ways…