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That’s a fundamental concern of sculpture in every artistic age and culture — its brass ring, if you will — and here it does yeoman’s work in energizing spaces both actual and illusionistic.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

The show traces its roots to a series of viral Instagram videos from 2020 that featured illusionistic cakes at their moment of denouement.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2022

Photography is the language that interrupted the grand tradition of illusionistic painting in the modern era, but now we’ve moved on from that.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2018

Tall and stylish, with a ready wit and an open manner, Ms. Minter works from photographs reconfigured in Photoshop, creating illusionistic canvases of body fragments awash in bling.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2016

Since the Early Renaissance, we have become accustomed to experiencing paintings as windows onto separate illusionistic realities.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson