Staff and Visitor Picks
Caitlin's Pick - Agnes Martin
I am an ardent admirer of Agnes Martin’s spare, meticulous, yet evocative paintings.
Caitlin's Pick - René Magritte
I find works such as The Healer fascinating because they merge realistic representation with a dream-like disjuncture that suggests a bizarre yet poetic narrative, provoking me to conside...
Caitlin's Pick - Anni Albers
I have always respected her innovative commitment to re-envisioning the potential of textiles as a challenging, visually and conceptually rigorous medium.
Caitlin's Pick - Richard Serra
I find his spare, two-dimensional works, such as this lithograph, Balance, compelling for their similarly subtle transformation of the viewer’s experience of a space.
Kristen's Pick - John Baldessari
For this work, the artist destroyed a series of paintings by cremating them.
Kristen's Pick - Richard Artschwager
I like this work because it is at once a highly literal demonstration of the basic elements of painting and a challenge to the idea that painting is a "special" category.
Kristen's Pick - Anne Truitt
The piece engages my intellect, my emotions, and my sense of beauty.
Kristen's Pick - Ed Ruscha
Aside from being, and perhaps because of being a masterfully painted work, Rusha's painting acts as a provocative caution against "empty" culture.
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