Beyond artists who look directly at the border in their work, artisans who make crafts in the borderlands are also represented. L.A.-born artist Pilar Agüero-Esparza, who presents Mexican huarache sandals in the shape of swimming flippers or in popping colors…
‘Last Words’ among two poignant Julia Couzens art shows BY VICTORIA DALKEY Bee Art Correspondent September 25, 2017 07:48 PM Updated September 26, 2017 01:44 PM It’s not surprising that Julia Couzens, a fine writer whose incisive art reviews appear occasionally in The Bee, should choose words as the foundation for “Last Words,” her elegiac […]
A conversation with Hudgens Prize finalist Jiha Moon Anna Nelson-Daniel, images by Jamie Hopper. Aug 7, 2017 “My work often deals with people’s common misunderstanding of racial misconception and cultural appropriation,” says artist Jiha Moon. Her multimedia compositions encompass iconography referencing popular culture in contrast to age-old tradition. Evoking her own Korean ancestry through […]
By Craig Nakano The explicit nudes in needlepoint, the erotica rendered on a quilted duvet cover, the expletive-laden hooked rugs, the remarkably detailed (and anatomically accurate) knitted sculpture of body parts — the sheer subversive glee of these works may delight or disgust, depending on your point of view. But keep turning the pages of the […]
Markus Linnenbrink @ Patricia Sweetow David M. Roth posted 13 June 2017 Few painters working today generate as much retinal excitement as Markus Linnenbrink. With epoxy resin-on-panel paintings, multi-layered sculptures, Op-ish stripe paintings, and interior walls coated in drip-laced, wobbly stripes, the Germany-born Brooklyn artist asserts the primacy of optical sensation. With his instantly recognizable […]
Transcendental Tinkering: Garage Inventors @ Hosfelt Posted on 08 June 2017. by Marcia Tanner White-walled, white-floored, high-ceilinged, spacious, and drenched in sunlight streaming in from second-story clerestory windows, Hosfelt Gallery is nobody’s idea — although possibly someone’s Platonic ideal — of a garage. You could imagine clouds floating in here for R & R. This […]
Jefferson Pinder at the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa Exhibition through June 4th From the release of Jefferson Pinder and the Figge Art Museum: There is so much work to be done outside of the big cities. I was approached by the Figge Museum two years ago to envision a project in which members of […]
“Queer Threads” symposium weaves together art and community April 18, 2017 “When my grandma let me change the fabrics of her quilt, I had this epiphany that I could be safe there – and that it was something I could be included in. So instead of being angry about the system, I started to think […]
Gestural Abstraction in the Information Age David Pagel, art critic Los Angeles Times In terms of materials, Markus Linnenbrink’s paintings could not be much simpler. Wood, pigment and epoxy resin are the only elements that make up every one of the visually resplendent abstractions the artist has made over the last twenty years. None of […]
BY DYLAN ANSLOW MARCH 31, 2017 Artists create art and community at the dump A halting music box tune creaks out as a birdcage packed with pottery shards spins on a video screen. The forlorn melody doesn’t damper the spirits of the crowd gathered around a table heaped with reclaimed fabric scraps. Artist Ramekon O’Arwisters presides over […]