Jules Verne, Ursula Le Guin, and Ray Bradbury obsessively constructed imaginary realms. With technology catching up to science fiction, the boundaries between the two have become razor-thin. The artists in our June exhibition give their ...
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Stuck in the Sticky Glow: Paige Mazurek Illuminates a Sweet Summer Indulgence
Editor’s note: an earlier version of this post ran in 2022. We’re publishing this update in honor of our 2023 exhibition, Sugar Rush, which includes work from Paige Mazurek. Ah, the fuzzy outline of a ...
Lionel Cruet: Creativity Determines Our Future on Planet Earth
“The ocean is a single, interconnected body of water,” says environmental artist Lionel Cruet. “The idea that different parts of it can be isolated from one another is a thing of the past.” To Lionel, ...
Inventing Appearance: QiuChen Fan Explores Our Fascination With Facade
“I pretend to be a flawless machine, but my work is actually laborious,” says QiuChen Fan, whose painstaking brushstrokes dissolve into flat fields of monochromatic color with a little patience. Inspired by the stripped-down aesthetics ...
Who Is Uzor Ugoala?
“By design, life is a play of opposites,” says Uzor Ugoala, whose dreamy photographs hang in the balance between two extremes. “Two thoughts, ideas, patterns, phenomena, which contrast in nature but are metaphorically and mysteriously ...
Drool Over Abbi Kenny’s Mouth-Watering Market Spreads
Editor’s note: an earlier version of this post ran in 2022. We’re publishing this update in honor of our 2023 exhibition, Sugar Rush, which includes work from Abbi Kenny. Devoted foodie Abbi Kenny schleps her ...
Devan Horton Erects a Kingdom of Trash
“I have a neighbor who successfully grew bananas—in Kentucky,” says painter Devan Horton, whose own seedlings struggle through an early heat wave nearly every spring. “It's hard for them to recover after that kind of ...
Sugar Press Art Hosts Benefit Show For Muralist Amanda Lynn
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, as the nursery rhyme goes. Unlike the original Humpty, whose thin shell cracked beyond repair when he hit the ground, muralist Amanda Lynn is well on her way to ...
Sugar Rush: An Exhibition Statement From Curator Morgan Laurens
A sweet tooth doesn’t have to stop at the taste buds. Piled high with soft, runny cheese, roasted pheasant in feathered carcass, dewy grapes, and fresh bread on silver platters, Dutch “banquet pieces” painted during ...
Trailblazing Graffiti Artist Hera of HERAKUT Is a Survivor
“Even the strongest superhero needs allies,” writes poet, painter, and graffiti artist Hera below a hand-painted sculpture of a child in bunny ears. “The rabbit, being the fragile animal it is, became a survival specialist,” ...
Herbal Folklore: Erica Peebus Spies Myth and Magic in the Garden
Editor’s note: an earlier version of this post ran in 2022. We’re publishing this update in honor of our 2023 exhibition, Art and the Environment, which explores contemporary issues involving climate change, invasive species, and ...
Ian Robertson-Salt’s Prismatic Paintings Explore Working Class Climate Anxiety
Editor’s note: an earlier version of this post ran in 2022. We’re publishing this update in honor of our 2023 exhibition, Art and the Environment, which explores contemporary issues involving climate change, invasive species, and ...
The Enigmatic ‘Animal Boys’ of Painter Mayuka Yamamoto
Inspiration can strike where you least expect it. For Japanese artist Mayuka Yamamoto, an extensive tour of the dim, cobwebbed catacombs lurking beneath glittering French and Italian cities did the trick. “I remember initially feeling ...
These Are a Few of Yannis Chan’s Favorite Things
Pop songs and Poké Balls, dapper dogs and angel wings—these are a few of Yannis Chan’s favorite things. Calling herself a “philosophy enthusiast and dreamy Sagittarius,” the Hong Kong-born artist sprinkles her dreamy figure paintings ...
Jonni Cheatwood Takes a Trip Down Memory Lane
Look past the painted cowboy, baseball, and party hats scattered across Jonni Cheatwood’s latest body of work and you’ll find a life stitched together from pieces of burlap, blanket, denim, mesh, and even an old ...