Tag: Sublime
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Cinga Samson Conjures Mystery and the Sublime in Large-Scale Oil Paintings
Amid groves of trees, meadows, and aging infrastructure, Cinga Samson’s dreamlike tableaux are bathed in eerie light, as if spotlit or illuminated by the moon. The South African artist is known for his use of deep, dark pigments such as carbon black and Prussian blue, complemented by the occasional teal or purple and pops of read more
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The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial
As my friend Anthony Elms pointed out to me recently, the Whitney Biennial is a kind of neither-here-nor-there entity: too big for a tight thesis to be legible, too small to provide a true scope of what’s happening in the United States art world. (He should know: He curated a floor of the 2014 edition.) read more
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