figuration

Installation view of Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream on view at The Museum of Modern Art
Wifredo Lam’s Spirits and Figurations at the MoMA
​When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream, the major retrospective now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, positions Wifredo Lam as a political, spiritual, and insurgent force—a world-…
Wenhui Hao, Salt and the Silver Twilight, 2025, Oil on Linen, 59 x 69 in
Wenhui Hao’s Dynamic Blend of Figuration and Abstraction
Emerging artist Wenhui Hao (2000) has been drawing attention with her striking blend of figuration and abstraction. The 2024 Royal College of Art graduate now lives and works in Beijing and London…
Art Basel Paris 2024 at the Grand Palais. Courtesy of Art Basel
10 Highlights from Art Basel Paris 2024
Built for the Universal Exhibition in 1900, the Grand Palais is a historic French landmark. A massive Beaux-Arts building with an incredible iron, steel, and glass barrel-vaulted roof, it’s now the…
Installation view, Elmer Bischoff/Tom Burckhardt: A Dialogue, George Adams Gallery, New York, 2022.
Abstraction & Figuration in “Bischoff / Burckhardt: A Dialogue”
At New York’s George Adams Gallery, this exhibition creates a visual conversation between influential twentieth-century Bay-Area painter Elmer Bischoff (1916–1991) and contemporary New York-based…
Hilma af Klint, Tree of Knowledge, No. 1, 1913-1915 detail of
Hilma af Klint’s Eclectic Pursuit of Cosmic Verities at Zwirner
An overnight sensation more than 100 years in the making, af Klint stunned viewers with monumental, brightly colored abstractions created years before Vasily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian pivoted away…