Leila Seyedzadeh’s color palette evokes the specific history of the Iranian school of Shiraz, (1256-1353) which is known for its lyrical palette and the romantic narratives of Miniature Painting.

I still hold a bodily memory of the landscapes which Kiefer depicted, and I felt the paintings in my gut as much as I saw them with my eyes.

We are Lot’s wife, who, because she turned around to look at the landscape aflame, was destroyed.

The painting’s frozen, dark stillness leaves us forever anticipating what may emerge from the night.

Sometimes Wong’s figures read as self-portraits of past selves and other times as variants on a type. They split and haunt each other. 

It doesn’t take much to see de Kooning’s drawing practice as a kind of writing—his own graffiti ‘throwie’ made of letterforms, shorthand, and asemic writing.

These paintings have a sonic effect... They hum with a kind of white noise.