Studio Visit: Kiel Johnson: The Animated World of Everything in a Universe of Possibilities By Gary Brewer “Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets…
Studio Visit: Ron Athey, Undoing the Morbid Body of Christian Guilt By Gary Brewer “…I am nothing but love all my branches burn if I darken the day then the shadow recoils within me…” -Jean Genet, Funeral March Dionysian pleasure – a world freed from the sins of the father – awakening in the…
Studio Visit: Tm Gratkowski, The Word – Space, Time, Memory By Gary Brewer “Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.” Marshall McLuhan “Art’s purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with…
Studio Visit: Rebecca Campbell, The Subjective Lens of Perception By Gary Brewer “Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write…
Making Herself at Home: Studio Visit with Artist Sijia Chen By Sydney Walters Los Angeles based artist Sijia Chen travels to and from the United States and China, soaking up composites of urban life to capture the tone of what it means to be a stranger transitioning into an inhabitant of a city. Her…
Studio Visit: Dion Johnson, The Curvature of Light… By Gary Brewer “Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly” Paul Klee, Polyphonic Painting “…I see my soul reflected in nature, As I see through a mist,…
Studio Visit: Sarah Awad, A Dialogue with History… By Gary Brewer “You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognize it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.” “Every canvas is a journey all its own.” Helen…
