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Kayla Mahaffey: Chicago Hope

Like clusters of colorful balloons bobbing with uncontained hope and perseverance, the wide-eyed children thriving in Kayla Mahffey’s portraits strive with a bright determination. 

 September 20, 2021

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Jane Dickson: In the Middle of the Night

“I am a pretty literal person… a plainspoken Midwesterner.” Jane Dickson makes comfortable eye contact and speaks in approachable, matter-of-fact cadence, recalling how she didn’t get around September 13, 2021

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Geoff McFetridge: The Opposite of an Idea

The beauty of Geoff McFetridge’s work is that it is both flexible and rigid, universal and personal. There is a malleability he creates in his output, where designs for Apple, Vans or Norse Project September 07, 2021

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Julie Curtiss: In Her Wildest Dreams

Raised in the eastern suburbs of Paris, abstract painter Julie Curtiss stands firm in her belief that the Covid-19 pandemic has forced people to look at themselves.

 August 30, 2021

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Phlegm: Monuments Large and Small

Many artists enjoy tantalizing the media and public by playing cat-and-mouse in a practice that feels a bit indulgent, often frustrating. A few do have their simple, straightforward reasons, like eng July 26, 2021

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Jenna Gribbon: The Pleasure of Looking

For the past year, with interactions among each other relegated to the digital realm, what we see is exactly as dictated. Even if there were 80 selfies taken wearing a torn T-shirt in front of apartm July 19, 2021

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Ludovic Nkoth: A Dear Statement to the Soul

Cameroon-born painter Ludovic Nkoth takes issue with the common public perception of Black artists. Through a critical lens, being Black, in essence, comes to shape creatives’ identities, but Nkoth July 12, 2021

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Khari Turner: The Light Between Oceans

“If I met my ancestors at the edge of the ocean, would I bring flowers?” What a natural notion to posit, a sentiment to be etched in stone and passed down through the ages. When Milwaukee-born, N July 05, 2021

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Lucia Hierro: Fuck Up The Algorithm

A lone plastic shopping bag, plucked by the breeze, floats gracefully down the street. It is the “muse” of Lucia Hierro, who, although foremost an academic, is also a conceptual artist—a driver June 28, 2021

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Hilary Pecis: The Humble is Whole

Hilary Pecis makes magic, buoyantly reviving the vivid dream you’d like to revisit. Her scenes become wonderland dioramas that expand, deepen and sprout detail. She paints picture postcards, some b June 14, 2021

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Cristina BanBan: The Nuance of Memory

Think about the last time you cried. Oh, there are myriad reasons. Life can be upsetting,  life makes us feel nostalgic. We cry out of sadness and happiness, sometimes at the same time. We cry w June 07, 2021

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MADSAKI: Homecoming King

Subversive is a descriptive often overused in the art world, routinely referencing a brand of humor or political message, sometimes both, resulting in my hesitancy to use the term even when it's most June 01, 2021
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