Hannah Altman’s work brings to mind collective identity and the intricate bonds we share within our chosen community. Her visual poetics bring to life photos that extend beyond what we might see in her images. Her sensitivity to light, gesture, and expression bring out the familial recollections she talks about in her artist statement and […]
Conceptual
Thesis Project: Phillipa Klaiber
In my mind, the place described in Phillipa Klaiber‘s Vorest hovers somewhere between the realms of truth and fantasy. Recontextualizing authentic historical documents alongside her own photographs, the artist blurs the line between past and present- what is and what was- as she explores her own relationship to this place as both insider and outsider. The resulting narrative […]
Thesis Project: Leah Schretenthaler
When looking at Leah Schretenthaler‘s work, what excited me the most was it’s place as a new investigation into a very heavy mythologized geographic location. Hawaii has long been a place of interest for photographers, and for good reason, but Leah’s work feels like it takes all of that and flips it on it’s head. […]
Thesis Project: Hugo Teixeira and Brandon Ng
Anyone who’s done it will probably tell you that getting through graduate school is a challenge. For me, the period after graduating was just as difficult. Besides finding a job, I had to find a way to keep making work without the university’s facilities. I also had to figure out how to connect with the […]
Liz Albert: Family Fictions
I first became aware of Liz Albert’s project, Family Fictions, through Float Magazine’s The Road Exhibition. I loved the vintage diptych (see above) that perfectly described a family road trip that included a bored teenager with a cigarette. Needless to say, I was looking forward to seeing her work in Houston. The artistic use of […]
Spain Week: Nieves Mingueza: The malady of Suzanne
Nieves Mingueza is a natural-born visual story teller who follows her instinct and intuition. She combines different media to create her stories such as photography, collages and text, from old photographs, magazines and encyclopedias that she finds in street markets and vintage stores, and it could not be otherwise. She lives in London. Her work tells […]