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 Naturalization, by Aaron Wax. Naturalization Naturalization is an exploration into the life of my grandfather. I create […]
Family
Art + Science: Blood and Kin: K.K. DePaul
Artist, photographer, educator, and gallery director, K.K DePaul examines themes of memory and family secrets by creating visual narratives. The art pieces from her series Between the Lines tear apart and reconstruct multiple sides of the personal untold story of her grandfather who was hanged for murder. She creates assemblages using photographs, text, and a […]
Art + Science: Blood and Kin: Michelle Rogers Pritzl
Michelle Rogers Pritzl is an artist based in New York. In her series Not Waving But Drowning, she visually gives voice to the psychological torment endured within the confines of her former marriage. Many people make sacrifices in order to keep family together or to adhere to others’ expectations. It takes strength and courage to […]
Art + Science: Blood and Kin: JP Terlizzi
JP Terlizzi is an artist based in Manhattan, NY. His work focuses on memory and identity. In his series Descendants, he creates art pieces that envision physical and emotional connections between himself and his family lineage. He creates art constructions, combining paper and pigment ink (photographs of his ancestors), cloth (pieces of string) blood and […]
Art + Science: Blood and Kin: Michael Koerner
Michael Koerner, Ph.D. (b. 1963) is a scientist and a photographer who specializes in historic/alternative photographic processes. As a scientist and organic chemistry professor, he conducts scientific research. In his series My DNA, he experimented for years with chemical reactions to create organic abstractions using tintype process. Yet, beyond aesthetics, his work reflects the story […]
Dominik Dunsch: Suburbia
The genre of family continues to be explored as photographers mine their lives, looking at those under the same roof as a way to understand and document those near and dear. Dominik Dunsch’s project Suburbia documents the every day, using family and place to understand his own life as he exists between generations in the […]