Sean Scully: A Wound in a Dance with Love

By Raphy Sarkissian

SEPT 2022 | ArtSeen

A leading champion of contemporary artmaking, Sean Scully has come to project his image of an artist as a formalist conundrum, as intimated by the above metaphor that exudes a sense of pathos.

JJJJJerome Ellis’s The Clearing

By Erica N. Cardwell

MARCH 2022 | Art Books

A songbook attentive to corporeal language-making processes often dismissed as impediments. The Clearing is not a metaphor—a symbol for clarity or realization—but an activation of ever-present clarity.

Ebony G. Patterson: …to kiss a flower goodbye…

By Ksenia Soboleva

JUNE 2022 | ArtSeen

In her second solo exhibition at Hales Gallery, …to kiss a flower goodbye…, Ebony G. Patterson continues to explore the garden as a multilayered metaphor for the colonial histories embedded in the Caribbean landscape.

Ruby Sky Stiler: New Patterns

By Jared Quinton

MARCH 2022 | ArtSeen

Whenever I’ve been lucky enough to see Ruby Sky Stiler’s work in person, I’ve come away thinking about the idea of the material metaphor. By this I mean something like the collapse of subject and content into form and expression; a mode in which the meaning of a work inheres in the material itself and how it is used by the artist, as opposed to one in which material is subservient to expression.