John Yau

The fluidity of the artist's line parallels her thought process and openness to taking unexpected paths, often prompted by a memory or life event.

The more time I spent at Four Chicago Artists , the more I wanted to know about the less familiar paths these artists took in their work.

In a career that stretches across a catastrophic half-century of health crises and wars, Avery applies his activist and empathetic social conscience to all he does.

Lacey Black and Aubrey Levinthal share a talent in their paintings for bringing inward and outward states together until they are one.

The longer I sat with the artworks in David Reed's studio, the more I felt that I wasn't fully seeing what was there.

In his paintings, Joshua Hagler seems to follow a path where logic and convention are left behind in favor of visions and dreams.

He has taken appropriation art, which often consists of commonplace acts of citation, quotation, and parody, and set it in a new direction.

Rhee's paintings change from pictorial presentations of a lush, dreamy world to a tangled web of different viscosities when we approach the surface.

Fearless, prolific, and protean from the start of his career, Thompson was able to absorb influences from both contemporary and historical artists without becoming derivative.

Her figures are in a state of unrelenting grief about what it means to be human and to feel powerless about so much that happens to ourselves and others.