When one first encounters the new work of Sunjoo Lee, it is disorienting. Is this a black photograph? Am I back to the days of conceptual painters where the subject was a single brushstroke? But slowly, the subject comes into focus and it’s not unlike what happens at night where finally you begin to re-see […]
Still Life
Bob Tanner: What Was Left Behind
Bob Tanner has created a meditative still life project on the transience of the metaphorical tea bag, suddenly sculptural with the addition of hot water and again deflated into new incarnations of shape and form. Freud said that the temporal limitations of object do not devalue an object. He said that the transience may increase […]
Heather Evans Smith: Alterations
Wikipedia describes the word nostalgia as being “associated with a yearning for the past, its personalities, and events, especially the “good old days” or a “warm childhood”. This description fits Heather Evans Smith’s richly saturated conceptual still lifes that feel at once part of the past and present, yet it’s that combination of what once […]
Photographers on Photographers: Bree Lamb and Abbey Hepner
This month, we feature our annual August project, Photographers on Photographers, where visual artists interview colleagues they admire. Thank you to all who have participated for their time, energies and for efforts. Today we are happy to share this interview with Bree Lamb‘s interview with Abbey Hepner. – Aline Smithson and Brennan Booker I first met Abbey Hepner in 2013 […]
Jeanette May: Tech Vanitas
Projects featured over the past several days 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 Tech Vanitas, by Jeanette May. Tech Vanitas As widely observed, we live in an […]
Karla Guerrero: Berta
Projects featured over the next several days 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 Berta, by Karla Guerrero. Berta “Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without […]