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No doubt, it’s by coincidence that Brooklyn-based painter Amanda Wall’s latest work hails from the burgeoning artistic idiom of spiritual art so presciently described by Lisa Slominski’s article, “Spiritual Art” in February 2023. Or, perhaps it’s a phenomenon attesting to the current zeitgeist. In many ways, it mirrors a similar historical moment in the late 19th century and early 20th century in the US and Europe.… read more.
Kenojuak Ashevak once told an interviewer that she aimed to make viewers happy with her colorful prints and drawings, a modest aspiration for an artist who has been referred to as a “national treasure” in Canada. Kenojuak rose to prominence in the late 1950s with her experimental printmaking, which seemed to white audiences in Southern Canada to be emblematic of the Inuit artistic aesthetic.… read more.