Don Voisine, "Odalisque" (2023), oil and acrylic on wood panel, 40 x 60 inches (all images courtesy McKenzie Fine Art, New York) By the time I reviewed Don Voisine’s work in 2013, he was a veteran ...

Lisa Corinne Davis, "Convulsive Calculation" (2025), oil on canvas (all images courtesy the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; image by JSP Art Photography) Five years ago, I reviewed ...

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The great grandfather of geometric abstract painting was Piet Mondrian but his ideas of great simplicity -- few colors, fewer lines -- have been expanded exponentially by his children, grandchildren, ...

NEWARK Art museums are in the business of sorting out history. And it often falls to our smaller institutions to tackle the initial, broad-stroke cuts. Over the years the Newark Museum has taken on ...

Davide Balliano’s “Abacus” is at Tina Kim Gallery through March 7, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Tina Kim Gallery. Photo by Dario Lasagni. If a formal rhythm—both mathematical and symbolic—can be ...

Can we speak of a geometric abstractionist tradition within postwar American art? In 1936, when Alfred Barr, the director of the then-new Museum of Modern Art, wrote that the two main strands of ...

Claude Monet’s palette of blues, Vincent van Gogh’s bright yellows, the city of Oaxaca’s vibrant red and a Chicago-style hot dog. They’re all forms of inspiration in artist Chip Fesko’s watercolor ...