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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

It’s a flat surface slathered with oils, rather than an illusionistic window on the world, and there’s nothing wrong with reminding viewers with a gotcha joke.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

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

First, the illusionistic light source that illuminates the scene seems to come from behind us, the viewers, over our left shoulder.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2019

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