The remarkable sculptures created by German artist Gabriele Schnitzenbaumer powerfully express an energetic gravity and intensity heightened by their archaic appearance. Adorned with tribal headdresses and medallions, these figures are the vessels of a sacred knowledge, seeking to transport the viewer to an elevated awareness. "These figures are totemic in aspect and the narratives are indirect and internal. The stories they contain are in fact archetypal ones and require an effort of self-recognition and serious introspection of the part of the viewer," writes Matthias Ostermann, art critic...

Korean-born abstract painter Hyunmee Lee masterfully couples bold, expressive brushstrokes with soft, subdued fields of color, thereby creating a strikingly beautiful balance in composition and design. "Confronting the paintings of Hyunmee Lee, what impresses is their celebration of gesture and depiction of a nearly unlimited sense of space. Abstract and intuitively painterly, her aesthetic is one of immediacy perpetually seeking its own nature," writes Jim Edwards in the catalogue Intimacy Without Restraint: The Gesture Paintings of Hyunmee Lee...

Inventor of a unique printmaking technique termed 'print-painting,' Sam Glankoff was an intensely private individual who chose not to publicly exhibit his work for decades. At the age of 87, he had his first one-person show held at the Graham Gallery in New York in October 1981. Glankoff died in April 1982, six months after his Graham exhibition. Yet he lived to experience his work being exhibited next to Robert Motherwell's and Helen Frankenthaler's at a show curated by Gene Baro for the Brooklyn Museum, to read a review of his work by John Russell, and to participate in a documentary film on his life and art...