Lonnie Holley's exhibition "I Snuck Off the Slave Ship" has unexpected moments of personal revelation.

One of the great obstacles to having an innovative creative practice can be a reticence on the part of the artist to step out of their signature style. Having found an iconography that resonates with viewers, collectors, or curators, artists can become trapped in a tendency to simply repeat variations on a theme throughout their careers.

When, in the late 1990s, Ralph Rugoff curated an exhibition at Rosamund Felson Gallery in Los Angeles with the title “Just Pathetic,” the critic Robert Storr remarked that the underlying idea, “patheticism,” was one of the only stylistic denotations of the ’90s to stick