Editor’s note: An earlier version of this post ran in 2022. We’re publishing this update in honor of our November 2023 exhibition, Down a Long, Dark Corridor, which includes work from Erin Naifeh. “My shoes ...
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Arts editor Morgan Laurens interviews artists from around the world.
Painter Ally Zlatar Endures the Isolating Pain of an Invisible Illness [Interview]
Under a skintight sheet of plastic, Ally Zlatar lets out a silent scream. While the Canadian-born artist isn’t shy about sharing personal anguish in her figure paintings, works like “Suffocating in Suffering” underscore how difficult ...
Photographer Brenda Maria Fernandez Steps Into the Mind’s Strange Recesses [Interview]
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this post ran in 2021. We’re publishing this update in honor of our November 2023 exhibition, Down a Long, Dark Corridor, which includes work from Brenda Maria Fernandez. The ...
Alissa Ohashi Assembles a Psychologically Barbed Family Photo Album [Interview]
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this post ran in 2021. We’re publishing this update in honor of our October 2023 exhibition, Aftereffects, which includes work from Alissa Ohashi. Alissa Ohashi uses the word gaman—meaning ...
Kacie Lees: Neon’s Rising Star [Interview]
“Neon is a recording device that glows,” says teaching artist Kacie Lees, who bends colorful tubes of gas into fluorescent lightning bolts and punchy POW! shapes. “[Neon] captures your movement then emits light like a ...
Painter Jenny Brillhart Shines a Light on the Messiness of Art Making [Interview]
Jenny Brillhart is an artist’s artist. Her spare works reveal an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the art-making process and the physical mark it leaves behind. In Housekeeping, the artist’s most recent body of work, Jenny ...
Chris Combs: Who Suffers and Who Benefits From New Technology? [Interview]
“It doesn’t matter if it’s an anticosmic retromingent defibrillator or a plastic fork,” Chris Combs quips during our interview, which sends me straight to the dictionary on a frantic, page-flipping search for the word “retromingent” ...
Christine Rasmussen on Making Work at the Intersection of Belonging and Isolation
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this post ran in 2021. We’re publishing this update in honor of our September 2023 exhibition, Architecture, Interiors, and Urban Landscapes, which includes work from Christine Rasmussen. Always devoid ...
Tiffany Sutton Captures ‘Black Body Radiation’ in Her Long Exposure Photographs [Interview]
Editor’s note: an earlier version of this post ran in 2021. We’re publishing this update in honor of our March 2023 exhibition, Women in Love, which includes work from Tiffany Sutton. Photographer Tiffany Sutton began ...
Whitney Sage Paints a Melancholy Ode to Midwestern Homesickness [Interview]
Editor’s note: an earlier version of this post ran in 2021. We’re publishing this update in honor of our July 2023 exhibition, Ancestral Landscapes: Investigating Heritage and Home, which includes work from Whitney Sage. Like ...
Fantastical Drawings From Olga Nenazhivina Visualize a Multicultural Future [Interview]
Editor’s note: an earlier version of this post ran in 2021. We’re publishing this update in honor of our July 2023 exhibition, Ancestral Landscapes: Investigating Heritage and Home, which includes work from Olga Nenazhivina. Often ...
‘Divine Vessels’: Yasmina Safi Captures the Many Masks of Woman [Interview]
Slick latex gloves, lacy negligees in fire-engine red, ivory linens draped carelessly across naked, muscular bodies: touch-me textures and an occasional pop of color burn through the smoldering haze of Yasmina Safi’s bedroom photographs. Shot ...
Juan Jimenez: Our Common Future is Blue-Light Bright [Interview]
Take a moment to imagine the future. When you close your eyes, does it look like Star Trek? Or Black Mirror? Colombian American artist Juan Jimenez—who works under the pseudonym Pincel Galactic—tosses dystopian fears aside, ...
Photographer April Winter Explores the Human Capacity for Loneliness [Interview]
Editor’s note: an earlier version of this post ran in 2022. We’re publishing this update in honor of our 2023 exhibition, Robots, Rockets, and Space, which includes work from April Winter. “In space, no one ...
‘Official Film Nerd’ Jessie Rodriguez Creates Whimsical Hand-Printed Movies That Feel Like Magic [Interview]
“Film has always been my gateway to a larger world,” says “official film nerd” Jessie Rodriguez, who crafts every detail of her stop-motion films by hand, right down to the hidden pull tabs that facilitate ...