An Invitation to Love: Blair Saxon-Hill’s Shrimp Head Momma
by Amy Bernstein I walk into Blair Saxon Hill’s exhibition, Shrimp Head Momma, to find an invitation placed at myfeet. I am surrounded by an […]
Arts Writing
Charged Voids: Avantika Bawa
by Christine Weber In Charged Voids, Avantika Bawa employs the staging and support structures used in theconstruction process to consider what is already constructed in […]
Shields, Open Wounds and New Landscapes: And Artist’s Account of Creation
by Stephanie Gervais I made Shield in 2014, while living between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. My friend Yuri modeled Shield in front […]
Hard to Describe: Alt Text and Artworks
by Laura Hughes Where it started: Sometime in 2018, about twenty minutes before teaching my Introduction to Drawing class, I found myself facing a page […]
No/And: Contemporary Conversations About Queer Art and Trans Art
by Sara Jaffe Ten or so years ago, I was feeling depressed about the word “queer.” It was everywhere, which was maybe the problem; it […]
Malia Jensen: “Nearer Nature”
by Sara Krajewski Editor Stephanie Snyder invited Portland Art Museum Curator Sara Krajewski to interview artist Malia Jensen about her major work, Nearer Nature. SARA […]
“Nobody’s Fool” at Carnation Contemporary
by Luiza Lukova Nobody’s Fool, curated by art historian, cultural worker, and writer Ella Ray (she/they), opened at Carnation Contemporary on Saturday, October 23, 2021. […]
In Memoriam: Lee Kelly (1932-2022)
Lee Kelly exemplified creative passion, clarity of vision, and dedication to process and practice. He was an extraordinary thinker, artist, poet, and adventurous spirit who […]
Activist Art and the Poetics of Junk Mail
by K. Silem Mohammad If you’re like me, and it’s a safe bet you are, you’re fed up with spam calls and texts. Recent surveys […]
Honey
by Ido Radon Do you remember it? Blown on the winds, on current and tide, its gas-filled float like a silicone potsticker on the surface […]
Retelling Stories: Sarah Farahat’s “Palestine Then and Now” and “Towards the Setting Sun”
by Amelia Rina In 1878, nine women stood in a river near Lawrence, Kansas. In 1961, Sarah Farahat’s grandfather took photographs of life in Ramallah, […]
Patterns of Protest: Pat Boas and the Making of “Sentinels”
by Prudence Roberts The five paintings in Pat Boas’s recent installation at the Sun Valley Museum of Art are testament to her brilliance as an […]
Lynne Woods Turner: Process and Patience
by Stephanie Snyder Lynne Woods Turner’s works on paper and canvas do not ferry images in any traditional sense; rather, they reveal the odyssey of […]
Mutual Adaptation
by Lumi Tan In the height of the COVID -19 pandemic in New York City, during which my ability to understand what art institutions should […]
CONDITIONS
CONDITIONS is a publication of The Ford Family Foundation. The annual arts journal (shifting title as it progresses) is part of the program element CRITICAL […]
FIGURING
FIGURING is a publication of The Ford Family Foundation. The annual arts journal (shifting title as it progresses) is part of the program element CRITICAL […]
Questioning Success: Reading and Thinking Together
By Bean Gilsdorf William Deresiewicz’s latest book, The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big […]
Phantom Limbs
When we look back on this time of the pandemic, it may be the confusion that we remember the most. We have been bombarded by […]