Features

Bisa Butler: Stitching History

Have you ever seen a picture of Frederick Douglass? I have, too. In most photographs, he is wearing a suit, carrying the weight of injustice in his furrowed brows, with an intensity in the eyes that August 31, 2020

Features

Peter Uka: ABC to XYZ

Coming from a culture where history is interpreted and passed on through an oral tradition, Peter Uka has decided to channel his talent by painting pictures that tell those stories in insightful, aff October 05, 2020

Features

Nicolas Party: A Hug From On Top of You

There are many elements in Nicolas Party’s work that justify the princely position and reputation he’s built so swiftly.

 September 21, 2020

Features

Dominic Chambers: Magical Realism

I had two windows open from Google searches right before sitting down to talk with New Haven-based painter Dominic Chambers, one researching concepts of Fabulism and how it relates to mythology and m September 14, 2020

Features

Cassi Namoda: The Sense of Saudade

Cassi Namoda is a soothsaying painter who explores the duality of Mozambique’s post-colonial identity. Storytelling through metaphorical female protagonists, she distills history, bringing emotiona September 07, 2020

Features

Marilyn Minter: A Constant Rebel

Isolation, that most disquieting quiet, and perhaps the cruelest of all tortures devised by our penal systems is very unlike the contemplative silence and purposeful focus of solitude. As we all find October 12, 2020

Features

Marcela Pardo Ariza: Try a Little Tenderness

Absolute joy was palpable as I watched Marcela Pardo Ariza take portraits of the back of folks’ heads for a theatrical composition.

 October 19, 2020

Photography

Lina Iris Viktor: Dark Mark Has Substance

It cannot be reiterated often enough—there is not one singular way to look at a piece of art. Typically, I’ve found that if an artist's intention is to lock you inside a box of their thinking, th  ; September 28, 2020

Painting

Kayla Mahaffey: Resilience, Vibrancy, and Nostalgia

No doubt, 2020 has been one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, but the Big Bang created stars, and Chicago-based painter Kayla Mahaffey is a glittering example. Her Deconstructed solo sho September 11, 2020

Illustration

Sieben on Life: Post-Pandemic Plans (The Sieben Family Guide)

My family and I have taken this global-viral-pandemic situation quite seriously. It’s been six months since we’ve done any of the following: entered a grocery store, eaten in a restaurant, been a September 23, 2020

Graffiti

The Drip: Craig Costello on the early days of Krink

To talk with Craig Costello is to appreciate the beautiful aesthetic of the perfect mess. The graffiti writer known as KR, celebrated for experiments in creating the Krink brand of graffiti markers a September 09, 2020

Design

Printing for Power: Jessalyn Aaland’s Class Set

“I was out looking for the comet, and now I’m researching frog cars.” This is a typical text from my friend, Jessalyn Aaland. Enabling art to activate consciousness and propagate positivity, sh October 21, 2020
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