Roy Lichtenstein‘s painting Desk Calendar, 1962, part of MOCA‘s permanent collection, was on view at the museum in 2024 as part of the exhibition Reverberations.
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“The Shape of What Remains”, 2026, Casein, Painted Paper, and Shopping Bag Paper
“Cocooned Reflection”, 2025, Casein, Collage, Blackout Poem,and Acrylic Mediums
“We Learn to Be Guarded”, 2026, Casein, Collaged Drawings, Found Objects and Acrylic Medium
“We Learn to Be Guarded” (detail)
For An American Son, Oscar Eduardo de Paz‘s solo exhibition at Chris White Gallery in Wilmington, he has created a series of works that capture moments from his life growing up as an American born to immigrant parents. The addition of collaged poems and objects adds textures to the paintings that draw the viewer in, while his focus on hands emphasizes the commonalities in his experiences.
From the gallery-
An American Son presents a powerful new body of work by Oscar Eduardo de Paz, tracing his journey from childhood poverty to fatherhood, community, and artistic emergence.
Through his Poetic Symbolic Representation (PSR) approach, de Paz layers figures, objects, archival fragments, and lived memory to reveal how American systems, poverty, policing, immigration, education, and care, shape a life. These paintings move between personal testimony and collective history, offering an intimate and compelling account of American experience through one son’s eyes.
The gallery is hosting a closing reception this Friday evening, 5/22/26, from 5-8pm.
May 182026
Lindsey Troy- I’ve Seen the Willow Trees
Lindsey Troy of Deap Valley has recently started a new chapter as a solo artist. The single above was her first solo release.
She is playing at Oblivion in Los Angeles on Sunday, 5/24/26, with Sun Atoms, Wave Decay, and See Night– part of the four day Arroyo Secodelic Festival.
May 152026
It’s week two of something new I’m trying out. Every week I choose three things worth sharing that aren’t posted on the website or in the longer newsletter.
Check it out here.
May 142026
Ashley Cantero created this mural of stylized aliens for the 2022 edition of SHINE Mural Festival in St. Pete, Florida.
From the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance about the artist-
Ashley Cantero is a Tampa, FL native and artist who actively engages in the local art scene. Best known for her precise line work and bold female characters, her work embodies a profound energy that she defines as the “intense and complex emotional responses we have to the world around us.” With themes inspired by ‘60s psychedelia, Atomic Age design and Sci-Fi, Ashley’s work is ever evolving through various mediums and artistic forms of expression.
You can also find her work on Instagram.
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Roberta Tucci‘s beautiful layered paintings celebrating spring flowers and plants are currently on view in her solo exhibition Bloom, at The Delaware Contemporary.
Her statement about her work from her website-
I paint images that express how I perceive organic forms and the world of nature. To do this I develop personal meditative practices that enhance my awareness of nature: both particular details and living systems. I visually interpret this abstract awareness by using traditional indirect painting techniques. These techniques involve layering with varnish and glazing. This slow painting process allows me to accumulate ethereal levels of tone and color on which to create unique images. I then introduce and develop shapes, lines and patterns that represent the complexities of my natural subjects. The compositions that result invite viewers to perceive, connect and engage in a way that encourages their own with meditative contemplation.
This exhibition is on view until 5/31/26.
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Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí was born today, May 11th, in 1904. The painting above, Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), from 1936, is part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art‘s permanent collection. It was also included in their recent exhibition, Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100.
From the museum’s website about the work-
Salvador Dalí painted this allegory of self-inflicted carnage while living in Paris in early 1936, on the eve of the devastating civil war in his Spanish homeland between Francisco Franco’s right-wing nationalist forces and the elected Republic. The painting flaunts its flair for gruesome detail. A grimacing colossus towers over a sunbaked Spanish landscape and deliriously rips itself apart. Limbs are switched around and turned upside down, and the body’s trunk is missing entirely. A limp phallic shape draped over the truncated hip is a striking example of Dalí’s soft forms, implicitly referring to putrefaction and death. The scattered beans of the title exemplify the bizarre incongruities of scale to conjure the workings of an unconscious mind. Dalí interpreted the Spanish conflict in psychoanalytic terms, and he included an homage to Sigmund Freud, the initiator of psychoanalysis whose work inspired him to embrace such nightmarish visions, by including a tiny portrait of Freud inspecting the gnarled hand at lower left.
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Holy F- Elevate
This song is from Canadian band Holy Fuck‘s recently release album, Event Beat.
They are currently on tour and will be playing at the Roxy Theatre in LA on Wednesday, 5/13/26, with Memorials.
May 092026
Cats, painted in the 1930s, is by artist and educator Dorothy Geneva Simmons Skelton. It is currently on view at Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento as part of their permanent collection.
From the museum about the artist-
Dorothy Simmons was born in Woodland, California, and grew up in Oakland. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed a B.A. and M.A. in art and education. During World War II, after marrying U.S. Army Air Corps officer John Skelton, she moved to Arlington, Virginia, and worked at the Pentagon in military intelligence. In 1948, she became a civilian member of Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section Unit (aka the Monuments Men), which protected cultural monuments during the war and subsequently restituted art and other objects confiscated by Nazis.
May 062026
Detail from the center work in the image above
In Stone Formations, Kira Krell‘s exhibition at the Mezzanine Gallery in Wilmington, her large multilayered paintings and smaller delicate sculptures find a cohesive balance, much like the natural formations that inspired them.
From Mezzanine Gallery and Delaware Division of the Arts-
Stone Formations is a solo exhibition by Kira Krell that guides viewers from volcanic deserts to beautiful coastlines. Through diverse geological imagery, and weathered forms, the work traces place and time, evoking memory, endurance, and the lasting presence of landscapes once called home.
Krell’s process begins by layering sand, plaster and earth pigments to create relief-like texture paintings. Adding, subtracting, and distressing these elements is necessary to achieve surfaces that appear weathered and time-worn, in pursuit of capturing geological structures: Stone Formations. Intricate details are revealed through dry brushing and mark making techniques, using acrylic and pencils. Fascinated by natural forms and their portrayal of permanence and strength, the artist offers an impression of steadiness and belonging. This acts as a counterpoint to our fast-paced, ever-changing world. Krell invites viewers to take a moment to pause, breathe and reflect on our beautiful world.
The exhibition will be on view until 5/29/26.