The artist Hollis Sigler died in 2001 at age 53. During the 1970s, when she was in her 20s, Sigler favored photorealism; by the 1980s, she thought it superficial. “I was stuck,” she said, “but eventually I remembered that as a child I never had any problems drawing. So I tried to work as I had then.” Sigler produced bright, flat, cartoonish domestic scenes in rich color. When she was diagnosed with cancer, in 1985, she kept the illness hidden. Her work changed, however—her strokes became quicker and sharper, and she turned to natural disasters as subject matter. Sigler only explicitly addressed cancer when it returned in 1992. “I had to incorporate the ‘cause’ because as an artist I have an obligation to say something,” she said, “to be responsible for my community.” For the last nine years of her life, Sigler used art to document her sickness. This exhibition displays the work she made from the 1980s on. —Jensen Davis