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For over three decades, Pat Steir has been one of the leading painters in America. Her abstract waterfalls, with their rivulets of paint descending through cosmic spaces, discover unsuspected possibilities in the vocabulary of gestural abstraction, and reveal a profound spiritual dimension to contemporary art.
Renowned for his trademark figurative portraits, Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo (b. 1984) showcases Black joy and resilience in his works—leveraging finger-painting techniques to depict his subjects’ gazes and interior lives.
The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.
The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.
I often do some of the writing in bed. The house finally quiet. Grandbaby asleep, Max’s murderous mewling on pause, laptops muted. A state of unresisting yet restive somnolence passes through me. I‘m both dead tired and buoyed up by the poem that’s coming my way.