Lebanese-born, California-based artist Huguette Caland, whose five-decade career reflected an imaginative conception of form and color through whimsically sensual figurative and abstractly surreal painting, textile, drawing, and mixed media works, has died at eighty-eight years old. On the occasion of an exhibition at New York’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Art in 2018, Artforum contributor Kaelen Wilson-Goldie wrote of the “formal clarity of Caland’s erotic line—her ability to be sexually suggestive, almost comically naughty, while at the same time penning a feminist political critique of beauty, the body, and expectations…