Mimicry Camouflage Transformation
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
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
PEN15
PEN15 shouldn’t work—two 33-year-old women acting like 13-year-olds while surrounded by a cast of actual 13-year-olds—but good God, does it.
Resisting the Spectacle
Sasha Cordingley explores the shift in representations of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, from the international news media’s spectacle to the intimate banalities of continual struggle, in Resisting the Spectacle—Tiffany Sia’s Never Rest/Unrest.