Reviews

The 2025 Mississippi Invitational: Call Home

The 2025 Mississippi Invitational, curated by TK Smith and dubbed Call Home, opens with a title wall graphic that incorporates a landline phone dangling, as if abandoned by its user. The white handset—hanging loosely by an orange spiral cord, forever suspended somewhere between connection and disconnection, sets a quietly poignant tone for the exhibition. It also poses a question: Do you make the call?

Type:
Reviews
Source:
August 12, 2025
Location:
Jackson, MS
Credit:
Text / EC Flamming

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