Month: May 2021
Patty Chang: Milk Debt
Death. 113 degrees, everyday. Water running out. Loss of meaning. sharks in the water when I see a seal. lemmings....
Artist Project: Spring 2021
In this series of drawings, I combined my usual lineup of materials, tools, and transformative processes—making marks by burning and branding, and use of gold leaf—to build surfaces that mimic naturalistic elements and environmental conditions.
Firelei Báez: The Poetics of Opacity
Cosmo Whyte and Firelei Báez discuss practices of coding, withholding, and “mixing the honey with the sting” in Báez’s symbolically layered works.
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
100 Boyfriends, Brontez Purnell’s latest book, is a beautifully acerbic and transgressively messy portrait of queer existence—and persistence—that celebrates implosion...
Inaudibility: Krista Belle Stewart’s Sonic Repatriation of Knowledge
Krista Belle Stewart mines the power of strategic incomprehensibility to reclaim ownership through the mediation of access and refusal.
Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment
In his 1836 “Essay on American Scenery,” the painter Thomas Cole wrote of civilization’s detrimental impact on the natural world:...
Disappearing Into Motherhood
Through the work of Susan Bee, Mira Schor, Irene Lusztig, Carmen Winant, & Annesofie Sandal, motherhood becomes a space through which the art process can be revisited.
Sasha Wortzel: Dreams of Unknown Islands
Sasha Wortzel’s Sitting Shiva (2021), which consists of two folding lawn chairs whose webbing has been replaced with Burmese python...