Kim Dacres: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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Kim Dacres: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Born and raised in the Bronx by Jamaican parents, Kim Dacres considers her artistry a luxury—not to be taken for granted. Growing up, the abstract sculptor, who works with disassembled tires reconf April 25, 2022
Kristina Schuldt: Nothing Has to Fit

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Kristina Schuldt: Nothing Has to Fit

Rough and elegant, beautiful and grotesque, strong and fragile, vibrant and dispiriting, successful and failed. Such are the perpetual interplays that play with equilibrium in what we  recognize April 18, 2022
Matt Bollinger: The Realist of Fantasy

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Matt Bollinger: The Realist of Fantasy

During such a decade, as we live through the most unreal days, how do you categorize  someone as a realist painter? You begin to wonder what it is someone is trying to realistically convey.  April 11, 2022
Patrick Martinez: Neon Landscape

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Patrick Martinez: Neon Landscape

On a warm and sunny December morning I drove across LA, from the west side to Huntington Park, specifically, to see Patrck Martinez in his studio. The sprawl is palpable, throbbing with the nuance of April 04, 2022
Aryo Toh Djojo: A Close Encounter

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Aryo Toh Djojo: A Close Encounter

It feels quite apt that in the middle of a global pandemic, the US government would more or less admit the existence of UFOs. There was no Hollywood scripted announcement, no looming Independence Day March 28, 2022
Joy Labinjo: Fun & Games

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Joy Labinjo: Fun & Games

One of my favorite Joy Labinjo works features two men standing side by side, both in suits, framed by orange into rectangular blue boxes and presented in the trappings of some sort of magic show. On March 21, 2022
Woody De Othello: Flash of the Spirit

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Woody De Othello: Flash of the Spirit

In the midst of a revelation, Woody DeOthello is awe inspiring. Through his hands, inanimate objects vibrate: Lamps laugh at light switches and telephones might lick your face. Optimistically breathi March 14, 2022
Alice Neel: People Come First

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Alice Neel: People Come First

The twentieth-century figurative painter Alice Neel reflected that, “My psychiatrist once told me that I got interested in painting portraits because I liked to watch my mother’s face.  It h March 07, 2022
The Spring 2022 Cover Story: Derek Fordjour and the Sporting Life

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The Spring 2022 Cover Story: Derek Fordjour and the Sporting Life

Long after his childhood peers abandoned their artistic pursuits, Derek Fordjour remained committed to artmaking. The Morehouse and Harvard graduate eventually earned his MFA at Hunter College.  February 28, 2022
Esteban Samayoa: Cancer Sun, Cancer Moon

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Esteban Samayoa: Cancer Sun, Cancer Moon

As he and I connect to discuss the charcoal drawings that have recently filled my dreams, Esteban Samayoa, most lovingly known as Pops, is quiet and soft spoken. I’m not sure what first struck me a February 07, 2022
Sarah Slappey: The Well of Fucked-upness

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Sarah Slappey: The Well of Fucked-upness

The plethora of prescriptions society places on personal appearance has been imprinted for so long, that its inherent wrongness, or fucked-upness is taken for granted.  Women and increasingly, m January 31, 2022
Lenworth “Joonbug” McIntosh: Life as an Open Studio

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Lenworth “Joonbug” McIntosh: Life as an Open Studio

Lenworth McIntosh Jr. is a strong name. So is Joonbug. As with many, these names are the residuals of complicated history for my friend and prolific artist Lenworth “Joonbug” McIntosh Jr. I know January 24, 2022
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