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Lily Morris on Dustin Emory
Contemporary Virginia Wagner 5/16/25 Contemporary Virginia Wagner 5/16/25

Lily Morris on Dustin Emory

“The figure seems to emerge holographically from the surface like a lost energetic god in a desert of hermetically sealed domesticity.” 

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Heidi Howard on Alice Neel
Modern, Contemporary Virginia Wagner 5/5/25 Modern, Contemporary Virginia Wagner 5/5/25

Heidi Howard on Alice Neel

Neel’s paintings are a guide to reading through paint. She employs color like a true tetrachromat.

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Xico Greenwald on Diana Horowitz
Contemporary Virginia Wagner 3/4/25 Contemporary Virginia Wagner 3/4/25

Xico Greenwald on Diana Horowitz

Here the artist’s eye and hand are alive to the scene before her.

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Heide Fasnacht on Donna Moylan
Contemporary Virginia Wagner 1/20/25 Contemporary Virginia Wagner 1/20/25

Heide Fasnacht on Donna Moylan

All this arboreal inventiveness seems right for this juncture of the Anthropocene, an exaltation at a time when we may all be called upon to reinvent the landscape.

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Patricia Miranda on Shilpa Gupta
Contemporary Virginia Wagner 9/7/24 Contemporary Virginia Wagner 9/7/24

Patricia Miranda on Shilpa Gupta

The paper – white, ghostly, struck through its heart, floats in space like the upturned body of an impaled fish.

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Kathy Butterly on Howard Hodgkin
Contemporary Virginia Wagner 6/10/24 Contemporary Virginia Wagner 6/10/24

Kathy Butterly on Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin’s paintings pull me in like nature does, like those moments in my backyard did.

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Joy Taylor on Romare Bearden
Contemporary, Modern Virginia Wagner 5/25/24 Contemporary, Modern Virginia Wagner 5/25/24

Joy Taylor on Romare Bearden

He created utterly flat but paradoxically deep space, too, inhabited by dignified characters of mythical stature from scraps of colored paper, torn and ink-stained prints, bits of fabric, and parts of magazine imagery.

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Naomi Ben-Shahar on Helène Aylon: The “Elusive Silver” Paintings
Contemporary Virginia Wagner 3/12/24 Contemporary Virginia Wagner 3/12/24

Naomi Ben-Shahar on Helène Aylon: The “Elusive Silver” Paintings

Aylon experimented with the idea of creating paintings that revealed themselves slowly, while being changeable and elusive like the sky.

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Andrew Cornell Robinson on Linda Griggs and Allen Hansen
Contemporary Virginia Wagner 3/3/24 Contemporary Virginia Wagner 3/3/24

Andrew Cornell Robinson on Linda Griggs and Allen Hansen

In the realm of artistic marriages, the relationship between painters Linda Griggs and Allen Hansen stands as a testament to the enduring power of creative dialogue and partnership.

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Anna Shukeylo on Jane Swavely
Contemporary Virginia Wagner 2/24/24 Contemporary Virginia Wagner 2/24/24

Anna Shukeylo on Jane Swavely

That deep maroon/oxide void lures the viewer to step in past the two silver curtains on either side.

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The Journey: Marik Lechner on Dana Schutz
Contemporary Virginia Wagner 2/19/24 Contemporary Virginia Wagner 2/19/24

The Journey: Marik Lechner on Dana Schutz

A grotesque, elaborate stage. The genius promiscuity of a witch painter, with turpentine instead of blood flowing through her veins.

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Sandra Eula Lee on the Reflecting Pond
Contemporary Virginia Wagner 2/6/24 Contemporary Virginia Wagner 2/6/24

Sandra Eula Lee on the Reflecting Pond

These garden hacks were made for contemplation, a claiming of space from the in-between.

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Alina Tenser on Olga Balema
Contemporary 1/19/24 Contemporary 1/19/24

Alina Tenser on Olga Balema

As my vision narrows in on one, I start to see the shimmering edges of other pieces populating.

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Josh Dorman on Jordi Marlet
Contemporary 2/23/23 Contemporary 2/23/23

Josh Dorman on Jordi Marlet

Marlet told me he “met that bear in Denver, traveling across the U.S. by train."

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Elizabeth Johnson on 'The Cynnie Paintings' by Carol Saft
Alone Together, Contemporary 12/24/22 Alone Together, Contemporary 12/24/22

Elizabeth Johnson on 'The Cynnie Paintings' by Carol Saft

Her dark dress shimmers in the chilly bathroom suggesting Joan of Arc, in chain mail, before a Zoom battle.

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Marissa Sher on Sam Cannon
Contemporary 9/22/22 Contemporary 9/22/22

Marissa Sher on Sam Cannon

She was erasing herself physically into an expressionless avatar

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Barry Nemett on Pat Steir’s Dysrhythmic Downpours
Contemporary 9/1/22 Contemporary 9/1/22

Barry Nemett on Pat Steir’s Dysrhythmic Downpours

Then there’s that lone, feathered creature from a soggy flock — a hood ornament of a jittery bird facing jittery geometry.

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Heide Fasnacht on David Diao and the Squeegee in the Expanded Field
Contemporary, Modern 6/23/22 Contemporary, Modern 6/23/22

Heide Fasnacht on David Diao and the Squeegee in the Expanded Field

An innovation is alive and mutable as it passes from hand to hand.

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Alison Kruvant on Hedda Sterne
Contemporary, Modern 6/15/22 Contemporary, Modern 6/15/22

Alison Kruvant on Hedda Sterne

She saw New York as a “Surrealist” city. With its unfathomable density, extreme juxtapositions, and collective lack of sleep, the city hasn’t changed much.

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Heide Fasnacht on Jack Whitten and Gerhard Richter
Contemporary 5/30/22 Contemporary 5/30/22

Heide Fasnacht on Jack Whitten and Gerhard Richter

Gerhard may be the Jack of all Trades but Jack was the King.

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