The scene-shaping apparent to the large dimensions, by Alexa Guariglia at Moskowitz Bayes, is a weighing of monumental wonder in the traveening and careening which is blaring; yet soft in tone; celebratory but effecting a more cerebral end than the optically tantalizing. 'Open Sesame', (2026). Alexa Guariglia. Gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper65 5/8 x 94 3/8 x 2 inches (framed).....

Amidst the expressions of brute abstraction, painted wily with the eclectic slathering to the quotidian doodle, there is the nevertheless spackle bonus found with Mr. Ed Moses' own cosmic fauna at William Turner Gallery. 'Gold Bach', (2002). Ed Moses. Acrylic on canvas, 96” x 60”. Courtesy of the artist and William Turney Gallery. Copyright All Rights Reserved. "Where wast thou when I....

What do we have here? A Spasmoditicity of ceramic, patterned with the potpourri of boyish plastique, in the slobbering glaze which oozes a mystical figurine theatre of figurehead. It’s walking through Where the Wild Things Are without the teeth. The moving presence does not imbue immediately a savagerine discovery, a la Easter Island. The compact composites are sentimental enough to be....