Collage is a powerful artform that allows the artist to create new worlds and realities. Artist Paula Gillen imagine a feminist utopia in outer space. agram: https://www.instagram.com/paulagillenart/ Website: paulagillen.net My show Head Trip is at Ten Nineteen New Orleans through October 17th but I am sure the work would be kept online: https://ten-nineteen.org/exhibitions/ Interview with […]
Alternative Process
Spirit: Focus on Indigenous Art, Artists, and Issues: Kali Spitzer & Bubzee
Body as site carrying blood memory forward. Interrupted by colonial acts. Relationships revive Weaving together the strength of ancestors. Through generative collaboration, Kali Spitzer (Jewish and Kaska Dena) and Bubzee (European settler) hold space for one another braiding their ancestral connections to heal colonial wounds. Created on the unceded lands of Musqueam, Skwxwú7mesh, Tsleil-Waututh, Sinixt and Mi’kmaq […]
Jaulas//Cages: Renee Romero
In a show of solidarity for those who are being held captive against their will, oppressed, and colonized by this authoritarian regime “Jaulas // Cages” is a week celebrating emerging Latinx Image-makers who I am interviewing to gain their insight and voice on the current danger it is to be outside the white patriarchal standard […]
Reimagined Landscapes at the Center of Photographic Art
The Reimagined Landscapes exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art features the work of 8 female artists, each reinterpreting the landscape genre. As August, 18, 2020 officially marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution, we honor this date with an exhibition of women photographers that include Christa Blackwood, […]
Photographers on Photographers: Andrew K. Thompson in conversation with Joseph Minek
I first became aware of Joseph Minek’s cameraless photography through former Gallery 1/1 owner, Dan Shepherd’s Instagram feed. Minek’s unconventional use of light-sensitive materials echoed many of my interests, but there were other similarities. Each of us is engaged in photography in unorthodox ways while working outside of traditional art enclaves. Myself in San Bernardino, […]
Photographers on Photographers: Rohina Gandhi Hoffman in conversation with Carla Jay Harris
When I first saw Carla Jay Harris’ project Celestial Bodies at AIPAD (NYC) in 2019 I was spellbound. More than beautiful and graceful, her work was ethereal. Like a bashful vagrant, I conspicuously loitered by the Kopeikin Gallery booth, hoping I would have a chance to meet the artist. Ironically, I learned that she was […]