An Te Liu’s New Nature

While the source for all the pieces reside in the residue of modern life, An Te’s capacity for amusing transformation turns these objects into a garden of captivating poetry and a critique of contemporary life, concurrently. — Eduardo Aquino

Janet Werner Is Distorting Fashion’s Beauty Ideals Through Painting

Werner reconstructs familiar ideals of beauty into something far more complex, distorted and, at times, unsettling, exposing a charged tension between glamor and the grotesque. — Sylvia Shoshan

Gloria Klein

Klein was masterful at both making symmetry and subverting it, and her best paintings, like “Bon Voyage/Semaphores” (1987), invite you to seek it while also denying you the satisfaction. It’s an experience that feels very human: searching for order, and thus meaning, in a mercurial world– Jillian Steinhauer