Angel Callandar and Yan Wen Chang discuss Chang’s new body of paintings, ‘A. Dream’, produced during her MFA, some of her art historical influences, and the concept of the Asian American Dream.
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“Whether at the level of the individual work or collaborative exhibition project, Yee makes sure that each project is an act of community-building. In doing so, they continually reorient themselves in relation to the world.”
“It took me some time to come to any kind of understanding about the complex relationships between Black people and the natural world. It wasn’t until my adult years that I realized those relations run deep and are underscored and influenced by multiple and sometimes overlapping histories and cultural contexts.”
“In Grotesque in the Grotto, Schneider exalts fatness. She centralizes this body, strips it down. Though her figure stands in for the continued rejections the fat body endures, it also stands out for its deft embodiment of the grotesque that lays bare all social nightmares.”
This idea of a vegetable menace emerged in the Hollywood imaginary post-WW2, yet these monsters embody larger meanings: assertions of colonial power, war, racism, and nation states, rooted in ideals that have fundamentally shaped dominant agricultural systems in western culture.
With a protean approach to medium, creating handmade clay jewellery and artists’ multiples, large-scale tapestries and soft sculptures, Pimienta honours her Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Wayuu heritage while simultaneously challenging the status quo.
Notes on Digging a Hole is an excerpt from a chapbook of the same name by Zachary Ayotte published by Glass House Press in 2022.
Much of our fall editorial program considers the environment and how its overlapping histories inform contemporary social and cultural contexts. Through conversations about the evolution of monster plants, equity in the outdoors, and the aesthetics of food and fat, these works explore the myriad of ways that we can still advocate for ourselves and the natural world.
Luther Konadu speaks with artist Leonard Suryajaya about his elaborately staged photography and his integration of humour, culture, and family in his artistic process.
“As we listen attentively to our headphones—whether in-person, outside, or on the web—the sounds reverberate between various dimensions, and a creative, sensorial, and embodied engagement is created within the place and space we are in.”
Embracing the curiosity of his audience, Sean Weisgerber’s practice explores the materiality of painting and encourages a close reading through the repetition of patterns and numbers.