by Joseph A. Hazani July 17, 2025
Mr. Alan Pulner revisits the themes of queerness neglected in an age of such global acceptance In his Reading the Flame(s) exhibition at NOON Projects. In the ideas he shares, there is a constancy in the playfulness of the word-choice “flame”; with its characteristic derision of the “flaming f__got” he depicts in media with an otherwise robust materiality of wooden panels and metallic....
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by Joseph A. Hazani July 8, 2025
With an exhibition of a plurality of artists representing a summertime mood at La BEAST Gallery, two capture the success of that aire of levity; an attitude absent the lachrymose. 'Encounter with an Angel' (2025). Aaron Johnson. Acrylic on canvas. 40" x 30" x 1.5". Courtesy of the artist and La BEAST Gallery. All Rights Reserved. Aaron Johnson’s, in the words of the gallery owner,....
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by Joseph A. Hazani June 16, 2025
Señor Alexandre Arrechea provides an idea of honor, dare I say love, of his native Cuba with a testimony to its inescapable coral reefs with his Caribbean Stages exhibition at Simard Bilodeau Contemporary. His sculptural history translates an experience and relation to space which moves the optics of the viewer with his oils and pronounced staging that delights with the....
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