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Sheila Pree Bright’s Suburbia: Where Nothing Is Ever Wanting
This essay was originally published in ART PAPERS July/August 2007, Vol 31, issue 4. For the past two years, Sheila...
Fall Exhibitions at SCAD Museum of Art
SCAD Museum of Art’s fall exhibitions engage ideas of sensory activation, retrospection, glitches, material, and myth. Each exhibition stands alone,...
Teaching Between Worlds
“It becomes more and more difficult in the given academic structures to figure out how to make these kinds of spaces of inquiry. But I’m still having a blast, and my students are still stabbing me through the heart and the eyes every day.”
Interview with Carrie Mae Weems
This interview was originally published in ART PAPERS May/June 1993, Vol. 17, issue 3. Born in Portland, Oregon in 1953,...
Dark Study: on Emily Jacir, Forensic Architecture, and fugitive documentary
Fugitivity, as it relates to Black study, has been a mode of contesting misrecognition through a lens of narrative darkness....
Zora J. Murff: Documenting the Shadow Empire
Zora J Murff is an artist and educator whose work critically examines systemic oppression and the cultural, historical, and personal...
Amber Esseiva: Call and Response
Amber Esseiva is curator of the group exhibition Dear Mazie, at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University....
Jen Everett: Kinship, Interiority & the Black Femme Gaze
Outside Jen Everett’s studio, balmy air collects against warm St. Louis bricks, but my summer sweat is instantly soothed as...
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.
The Perpetual Almost
A couple of months have passed since Atlanta Art Week and the inaugural Atlanta Art Fair. Parties attended, networking achieved,...