This week, I’m honored to feature six artists who offer a glimpse into the vast complexity and nuance of Asian America. While diverse in their image-making, the artists share a common thread: an urge to be seen and recognized through personal narratives put forth on one’s own terms. Work by the artists featured this week […]
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Spirit: Focus on Indigenous Art, Artists, and Issues: Jeremy Dennis
This week we partner with the National Center for Civil and Human Rights to share the work of Indigenous Artists. As written by our curator, Donna Garcia: “this initiative should educate the public, through lens-based art, regarding the true history of indigenous people and recruit allies/advocates for indigenous issues everywhere, but with a specific focus on the […]
Photographers on Photographers: Macaulay Lerman in conversation with Paul Guilmoth
At first glance the photograph is a medium of great limitation. The primary function of the camera is to describe the surface of an enclosed scene. Yet, for perhaps ineffable reasons, certain imagery surpasses it’s technical purpose, instead conjuring sensations that span the senses and inspiring curiosity as to what lies beyond the frame. The […]
David Brothers: What A Show Show
What A Show Show by David Brothers was selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was pleased to interview David to gain further insight into this body of work. David Brothers’ multi-disciplinary practice encompasses painted and constructed installations, as well as photography, film, video, radio, and printed publications. Recently, he mounted a solo exhibition at the Utah Museum of […]
Madeleine Morlet: I Promise I’ll Never Forget
Madeleine Morlet‘s project I Promise I’ll Never Forget takes us on a narrative journey thought adolescence and time, through histories and memory and the the bliss of youth. This series speaks to the trying on of personas, of sun kissed faces and tangled limbs in scenarios that span the decades. As she states, “‘I Promise […]