In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

The figurative and the abstract collide and collude with startling vigor in Kate Vrijmoet’s “Essential Gestures.” This exhibit of paintings and drawings is Vrijmoet’s first solo show in Seattle — but ...

A new exhibition at the Old Parcels Office in Scarborough brings together the work of 14 contemporary artists exploring the enduring power and relevance of figurative art.

Elmer Bischoff, “Motgomery Block” (1956-59), oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (all images courtesy George Adams Gallery) The curator and art historian Susan Landauer met Elmer Bischoff in 1985, while she ...

Art Works, in Richmond's Old Manchester District, is showing "From the Vanishing Point (Two lines go their separate ways)" by Karen Kain. To create her abstract figurative forms, Kain paints from live ...

Sean Scully, “Eleuthera” (2017), oil on aluminum, 85 x 75 inches (all images © Sean Scully, all images courtesy the artist) When I became an art critic in 1981 ...

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