Lynn Aldrich’s “Velvet Painting: Ascension” is at once a sly joke and a gorgeous reverie. Not a painting at all, the 2015 piece, at Edward Cella, is really an assemblage that mimics the format of a ...
One day in 1968 when Juan and Abel Velazquez were 15 years old, their father sat them down and placed before them canvases of black velvet. Jose Velazquez had been a boxer in Mexico City. Later, he ...