Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Presence Obscured by Karen Bullock. Karen Bullock is an emerging documentary-style photographer living in Alabama. Primarily self-taught, she photographs intuitively […]
Conceptual
Mara Trachtenberg: A Studio of One’s Own
Mara Trachtenberg is a lens-based artist who makes fantastical dream worlds out of sugar. I met Mara when I was a grad student at UConn and she was a recent graduate from the same program. Her working method fascinates me and we share a love of Rhode Island and sourdough bread. Mara Trachtenberg is a […]
Sarah Palmer: A Studio of One’s Own
I have never actually met Sarah Palmer. But I am a huge fan of her work, which I found on Instagram, because we have shared students over the years. I taught at a foundation program for Pratt in upstate New York and she picked up where I left off down at Pratt in Brooklyn. I […]
Thomas Allen: A Studio of One’s Own
I discovered Thomas Allen’s work in 2006 when I was a lowly intern at an art gallery in Boston. The work was staged and rephotographed pulp fiction novels-they were clever and provocative. But what I remember most about that show was how unassuming and kind the artist, Thomas Allen, was. I was so pleased to […]
Lorena Molina: A Studio of One’s Own
In the days and weeks following the initial shutdown of nearly everything because of Covid-19 I saw a great deal of commentary on how things are different, how we as a nation would adjust, and how the smaller community of artists would change their practice. I thought of my own art practice, pictures of and […]
Magali Duzant: The Moon and the Stars Can be Yours
Should I stay in New York City? Will I find happiness? Will I find love that lasts? Is there luck in my future? Should I continue to make art? These are just a few of the central questions posed in Magali Duzant’s book The Moon And Stars Can be Yours : Notes on Subway Psychics. […]