POSTED // Apr 30,2012 - The whole is larger than the sum of its parts. That’s one of the main tenets of Gestalt psychology—and it also summarizes the artwork of Margaret Tarampi.

POSTED // Apr 9,2012 - When Snoop Dogg had the gas tank in his Snoop DeVille filled with water instead of gasoline by a prankster, he was not happy.

POSTED // Mar 19,2012 - John Bell has the postmodern blues: the struggle to create meaning through art in an age when not only the traditionally meaningful is drowned out ...

POSTED // Mar 5,2012 - Since 1965, Phillips Gallery has featured hundreds of artists—and seven of the best, all of who are now deceased, are the subject of the current show, Reminiscing.

POSTED // Feb 13,2012 - “Sustainable” probably isn’t the first word you think of in tandem with art. In fact, most genres of art are, on some level ...

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.