POSTED // Jan 30,2012 - For artist Christine Baczek, when it comes to her exhibition of photographs at Nox Contemporary, it’s personal.

POSTED // Jan 26,2012 - In the digital age, there’s been a backlash in the arts by artists striving to hold on to older forms, genres and media, whether it’s film photography, live theater or the spoken word.

POSTED // Jan 2,2012 - The start of a new year brings with it new possibilities for life as well as art, and among those are the visions of artists on display at local galleries.

POSTED // Dec 19,2011 - Art can imitate life, and life can imitate art—and in the aggressive and vibrant abstract paintings by Dave Thomas ...

POSTED // Dec 12,2011 - Personal and public history often maintain a curious, even distant relationship in an artist’s work. But in the work of some truly visionary artists, the two fuse and illuminate each other, and possibly create a third entity that is something different entirely. The work of Chicago mixed-media artist Tony Fitzpatrick uses the iconography of early comics and other symbols from his childhood to create a panoramic picture of Chicago—and America as a whole.

POSTED // Nov 29,2011 - Too often, dreams and aspirations must be set aside for practicality and security, or practicality and security are sacrificed for the pursuit of dreams and aspirations.

POSTED // Nov 14,2011 - Site-specific artworks have developed in different ways since the term originated in the 1970s, but rarely has it taken a new view on location itself as in the works of Kim Schoenstadt.

POSTED // Oct 25,2011 - Our society has made seemingly everything into an object, but nothing more so than the human being itself.

POSTED // Sep 12,2011 - It’s the end of an era for local nonprofit arts organization Arts Access. Executive director Ruth Lubbers is retiring this month ...

POSTED // Aug 30,2011 - Smiling and full of charm, Ricardo de Sousa Costa hardly shows the weariness of barely sleeping the nights preceding the Park City Kimball Arts Festival Gala.