Sarah Walker

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Ah, painting!

At the DeCordova, abstraction is new again
“Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century” rounds up 15 painters who reinvigorate abstraction by drawing inspiration and imagery from computers, stars and constellations, quantum physics, data mapping, the Internet, genetics, squiggly microscopic critters.
By GREG COOK | January 29, 2007

My Baby Shot Me Down

'Big Bang!' at the DeCordova, 'Classified Documents' at Harvard, 'Trans am' at the New Art Center
“Abstract painting” is a broad historical category that takes in everything from the utopian spiritual and formal purity of the early decades of the 20th century to the macho of the purely visual as championed by Clement Greenberg later in that century.
By RANDI HOPKINS | January 09, 2007

Return to the edge of the world

The year ahead in art
Photography and new media loom large on the horizon in 2007, with cameras pointed in every direction.
By RANDI HOPKINS | December 27, 2006

Birdland

Henrik Håkansson at the Gardner, ‘Dwelling’ at Forest Hills Cemetery, Marilyn Minter and more at AIB
Our fragile and threatened natural environment weighs on the mind of Swedish artist Henrik Håkansson, who takes a biologist’s approach to artmaking .
By RANDI HOPKINS | June 20, 2006

Philosophy students

Erwin Wurm and Sarah Walker investigate the universe at Brandeis
Austrian artist Erwin Wurm loves playing the philosopher.
By GREG COOK | May 31, 2006

Massive attack

Wurm and Walker at the Rose, American photography at the Addison, Malpede and Fletcher at MIT
A fat house, a fat car . . . no, this isn’t necessarily a disparaging comment on the current state of the American dream.
By RANDI HOPKINS | April 18, 2006

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