art issues is a website dedicated to reviews of recent visual art exhibitions.




The resident critic is Edward R. Kelley, Ph.D., both a practicing visual artist and an art historian specialized in Twentieth-Century art.

Dr. Kelley also has expertise in Islamic and Asian art.


The innaugaral article discusses the exhibition entitled trope by Frances Whitehead which was held at the Herron Gallery from January 12 through February 10, 1996. This exhibition was presented as three distinct works:

Tropism II, 1995/96; The Dream, 1993; and Platonic Solids and Failed Platonics, 1992.

Each work has its own page with images and critical comments.


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