Contributed by Bill Arning / Teddy Sandoval, a gay Mexican American artist who died of AIDS in 1995, made such art copiously. “Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art” at El Museo Del Barrio offers mostly small-scale Xerox punk zines, erotic magazine illustrations, album covers, decorative ceramics, and minuscule works on paper. It is an outstanding show. Its overflowing curatorial style, bringing in a dozen kindred artists, is a poignant reminder that artists’ trajectories are inseparable from their economic and social contexts.
Tag: Light and Space
Nancy Evans: Cosmic absorption
Contributed by Mary Jones / One of many pleasures in “Mashups,” Nancy Evans’s show at Sargent’s Daughters, is the sensation of immersive color. Eight abstract paintings, all 26 x 20 inches, reverberate softly with veils of translucent gradients and undulating organic form. The work is grounded in American Modernism, and a baseline of particular influences come to mind: Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keefe, Charles Burchfield, and, as a watercolorist, Helen Frankenthaler. But Evans finds her own domain through a mediated technical process that generates luminous depth.
























