Broadly speaking, the Venn diagram of contemporary art as it applies to painting, sculpture and installation has three circles: representational, abstract and conceptual. This week, I’m looking at ...

(Courtesy stART Space) Abstract, immaterial, non-representational, conceptual, conjectural. These are all words you might use to discuss abstract art. I would add mysterious. There’s a gallery in ...

Penumbra inventively matches a representational, even quasi-photographic realist painter with an abstract painter. Will they have anything to say to each other, you might wonder. Often there’s a ...

La Conner’s Museum of Northwest Art has mounted an impressive show where abstraction combines with representational art to satisfy the intellect as well as the aesthetic sense. Featured are five ...