Why, in an age of unbounded color — whether the broad RGB spectrum on our flat-screen TVs or the gaudy riot of paint tubes at any Dick Blick store — would an artist choose to work in black-and-white?

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 is announced as the edition where everything accelerates: an incandescent crossroads where revisited modernisms, new visual cosmologies, reopened archives. A closer look at ...

Petzel Gallery, which has represented her since 2007, said the cause was pancreatic cancer. Pensato was a late bloomer: Her art did not mature until after she turned 50, in the early 1990s. Success in ...

Joyce Pensato, "2012 Batman" (2012) (all images courtesy the artist and Friedrich Petzel Gallery) Joyce Pensato draws in charcoal and paints in enamel — dense, clinging soot and viscous liquid. For ...

"Yes, it looks like Mickey Mouse or Felix the Cat, but I want to make it my own ... take it apart and put it back together with my own voice." — Joyce Pensato Imbuing familiar figures of American ...