Ms. Dan Lam and Mr. Jan Kaláb present to us a healthy medley of scintillating sculpture and canvas with a preciously meticulous treatment of color in their dual opening at Hashimoto Contemporary. The reflectances, specifically from Ms. Lam’s waxy-fun, provides an interesting juxtaposition to the austerely planar yet nonetheless curvilinear treatment of colors by Mr. Kaláb. This austerity is....

In a continual debasement of the Western Fine Arts tradition, Contemporary Art Museum Chicago had the efficacious demonstration of the affirmation of death: Illiteracy. 'Untitled'Softground etchings, aquatint, spit bite and sugar lift on paperFour parts, each framed: 28 7/8 × 20 5/8 in. (73.3 × 52.4 cm)Gift of Sandra P. and Jack....

Mr. Jeff Hirst presents us with a meditation on certainty in his staunchly thickly-wooded compositions at Addington Gallery. His examinations on the essence of structure gives us tremendous elasticity in the idea, from the gradients of paint thickness to the boisterousness of certain shapes in the composition. Yet it is from this thought of boisterous which we appropriately lack a sense of....