Life is strange. It is the human condition to believe that it isn’t going to be—it’s going to just be normal. But thanks to myriad little agendas, paranoias, psychoses, gullibilities, superstitions, love, loss and loneliness, it just goes on, fascinatingly and disturbingly peculiar. Tim Taunton’s surreal, grotto-style paintings offer outright evidence of this. The works […]

John Borden Evans’ current show of recent work at Les Yeux du Monde Gallery is just so John Borden Evans. And I mean that in a nice way. There’s something strangely wonderful, fresh and unabashed about Evans’ work, something he upholds in each subsequent painting, even though his style remains unchanged and his repeated theme […]

Almost from the outset of his retrospective at the UVA Art Museum, it seems that Gabriel Laderman has a hyper-Euclidean bone to pick with nature. The early cityscapes with which co-curators Lincoln Perry, David Carbone and Langdon Quinn introduce the exhibit demonstrate the artist’s early classical landscape approach. But “Unconventional Realist” is reorganized to suit […]