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To the Air   •  Paul Maziar and Cynthia Lahti Arts Writing Artist Features

To the Air • Paul Maziar and Cynthia Lahti

by Paul Maziar Originally published March 2020 Author’s Note: I’ve been enchanted by Cynthia Lahti’s work since the moment I first saw it—thanks to my […]

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Shields, Open Wounds, and New Landscapes: An Artist’s Account of Creation Exhibition Images + Catalogs Arts Writing

Shields, Open Wounds, and New Landscapes: An Artist’s Account of Creation

by Stephanie Gervais Originally published July, 2019 I made Shield in 2014, while living between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. My friend Yuri […]

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Laurie Danial’s Dynamic and Enigmatic Abstraction Arts Writing Artist Features

Laurie Danial’s Dynamic and Enigmatic Abstraction

by Patrick Collier Originally published May 2019 To the casual viewer, abstract painting may seem to lack coherence. Familiar epithets abound, usually because there is […]

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Alison Jean Cole’s Way West Arts Writing Artist Features

Alison Jean Cole’s Way West

by Paul Maziar Originally published July 2019 Precipitous calcite Mined from the hills of Nephi By harried and obsessive men Who probably tote guns Who […]

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Arranging the Deck Chairs Arts Writing

Arranging the Deck Chairs

by Josephine Zarkovich Originally published May 2019   Recently I have begun to document all the steps I take to perform each task in my […]

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Kristan Kennedy: A Corporeal Presence Arts Writing

Kristan Kennedy: A Corporeal Presence

by Meagan Atiyeh Originally published March 2020 Kristan Kennedy’s color-field paintings are worked and washed in a repetitive process. A small number of marks, additive […]

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Mira Dancy: “Self Seed” at the lumber room Arts Writing

Mira Dancy: “Self Seed” at the lumber room

by Carlin Brown Originally published March, 2019 The entrance to the lumber room’s lower level glows a flush pink. The unexpected color dissipates in the […]

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Ludd or Lucifer: Felicity Fenton Considers  Whether to Abandon the World Wide Web or Strike a Deal with the Devil and Use the  Internet to Critique the Internet Arts Writing

Ludd or Lucifer: Felicity Fenton Considers Whether to Abandon the World Wide Web or Strike a Deal with the Devil and Use the Internet to Critique the Internet

by Richard Speer Originally published Feb, 2019 To post or not to post? In light of the “delete-Facebook” and anti-social-media movements, an increasingly vocal contingent […]

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Modernist on the Mountain Arts Writing

Modernist on the Mountain

by Briana Miller Originally published February, 2019 In 1975, the non-profit Friends of Timberline launched a project to recreate and restore the textiles of Timberline […]

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Land and Language: Some Recent Prints from Crow’s Shadow Exhibition Images + Catalogs Arts Writing

Land and Language: Some Recent Prints from Crow’s Shadow

By Karl Davis Originally published January, 2019 Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Mountains in northeast Oregon, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts has […]

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