Dietrich Wegner at Pulse

by Kelsey Keith Last week we were taken aback at NYC's Pulse Art Fair by artist Dietrich Wegner's "Playhouse," an installation shaped like a mushroom cloud and built like a tree fort covered in swaths of cotton. A study in contradiction, "Playhouse" mingled with tattooed babies and dotted light paintings in Chicago gallerist Carrie Secrist Gallery's booth. Wegner creates "images that are safe and unsettling, …

Ross Jones: New Works

Political artist Ross Jones' exploratory drawings—soon to be on display at London's William Angel Gallery—take a look at Britain's current societal problems. By distilling a complicated political issue into one of its constituent parts, Jones looks at our contemporary climate without portraying one major viewpoint in each of his stark, large-scale renderings. (Click on images for larger versions.) While he may not dictate a singular …

Lui Shtini’s “New Paintings”

On display in Chelsea, some lovely new pieces by the NYC-based artist

One of my favorite exhibits currently on view in Chelsea, “New Paintings by Lui Shtini” at Van De Weghe Fine Art serves as yet another reminder that painting, in the right hands, is far from dead. Shtini’s paintings bear the precise strokes of an obsessive while his subject matter betrays the predilections of a unsettled mind. Or, perhaps not. The paintings on view, stylistically reminiscent …