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Magdalena Suarez Frimkess—The Finest Disregard

Even her utilitarian tableware—tortilla plates and coffee mugs—appear sculptural, not functional. Whereas many ceramicists, including her husband, take great pains to rid their work of evidence of their physicality, eradicating touch, pressure, emotion, and kinetic energy, Magdalena’s sculptures quiver with her presence. Fingerprints, pinch marks, patchwork, the spontaneity and surety of her brushstrokes altogether engender a perceptible alive-ness.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Fall 2024
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Credit:
Text / Tara Anna Dalbow

Gestures of Refusal:
Black Photography and Visual Culture

Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture is the third installment in the Seeing Black1 series curated by Shana M. griffin. Currently on view at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Gestures is vast and disarming. Before going, I wondered what it would look like: refusing / reiterating / recognizing a way of recounting (all) the ways that we appear to one another—as artists, as humans—swept up in the throes of Blackness. Recognizing. Reiterating. Refusing.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2024
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Credit:
Text / Sherae Rimpsey

Nancy Baker Cahill: An Invitation to Future Species

“What I’m especially excited to share in my own practice is a process of mutation, translation, and mediation. And so, what we’re really doing is tracing a trajectory of lines on—in this case, paper—but let’s say just a wall. I take those drawings, tear them into 3-D objects, then combine and recombine them into immersive 3-D sculpture.”

Type:
Interviews
Credit:
Interview / Mashinka Firunts Hakopian