Tag: Roman Andrus

A Large Exhibition Devoted to Abstraction at the Sears Has Gems Amid an Unfortunate Layout

By Shawn Rossiter on October 24, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

Your intuition might suggest otherwise, but abstraction has been the rule and realism the exception in art. From the caves of Chauvet to the walls of Canyon de Chelly, artists have always extrapolated from the material world to create a pictorial language. (And a written one: most of […]

Before Now | Visual Arts

When the Serigraph Came to Town

By Shawn Rossiter on July 25, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Maybe it seemed to come to him in a flash of divine inspiration. Or maybe it was simply a mundanely obvious solution to the task at hand. When Anthony Velonis joined the Work Progress Administration’s poster division during the Great Depression, he became one of scores of artists making […]