How the sculptor selects materials, why Baltimore is her 'Bermuda Triangle,' and what goes into the hour-long pandemic salad
Adapting and problem solving excite Maghazehe and motivate her materially centered sculpture practice.
Bradford’s Mother Paintings feel like deep breaths exhaled into a changed world
The figures populating the Mother Paintings live among slabs of heavy, humid air, hypersensitized in their responses to claustrophobic and caustic atmospheres.
His murals dot Baltimore City and are immediately recognizable for their realism, sense of color, and strong, often political narratives
"Our abilities are not proprietary and should not be hoarded. If someone needs assistance producing a mural, I try to make myself available."
Moyer's solo exhibition Analog Time at Chelsea's DC Moore Gallery presents new works on canvas and paper
Moyer’s calm demeanor that has weathered the art world and beyond gave me solace during a time when having a studio practice can feel monumental and frivolous all at once.
A conceptually crisp and sharp critique of American xenophobia and racism
The stock icon has yielded to something darker and more ominous.
Constantly pursuing the feeling of learning something new, Bathgate finds himself experimenting on the edge of the technologies he employs
It’s important to Bathgate that his works be makeable, at least by someone with his extremely specific skill set, which he admits only a few people in the world possess.
For every experience lost during this year of quiet, do we gain something else?
I tend to pair images together to complicate things, to show that my life is not one thing or another, that there is always a subtext or a tangent or a side story and nothing is simple.
Hager's signature all-over designs can be found on skate decks, chairs, T-shirts, hats, purses, paper
Many of his most popular works are the clothing that he draws on, unique works of art that travel with the wearer to bars, concerts, and gatherings.
Hellzones, moments, and several stages of limbo
I don’t fully register when the anxieties of one reality morph into ten other kinds in this new reality, but April is where it is, in my head.
Timothy App: States of Mind at Goya Contemporary
In discussing his work, App likes to allude to his lifelong attempt to find what he calls authentic ways of making a painting.
The T. Rowe Price Foundation President talks about community self-determination, sharing resources, and hanging out with Prince
"What communities are asking for is to be heard and to determine their own futures."
How a full-time artist and a Baltimore City councilperson have built their art collection
“Everything in this house represents the person, so every piece of art is an intimate connection to that artist,” Fostel says. “Having their work on our walls constantly keeps them in mind.”
Studying Bourgeois next to Maghazehe, the theme of rupture emerges again and again
Both women are primarily known for their work in sculpture, and that tactile sensibility easily translates to these textured two-dimensional pieces.
Building an archive of everyday Black life and culture
A conversation with conceptual artist and photographer Larry Cook and gallery owner/director Myrtis Bedolla
The 2020 Sondheim winner talks about balancing family and studio time, portraiture as power, and symbol systems
Hobbs is the rare sort of person who sets intentions and actually accomplishes them, who revels in being busy and can forgive herself when she falls short of her own extremely high standards.
Milad’s cryptic and deeply personal archive of gathered fragments invites viewers to exist in a state of suspended misunderstanding
Through a rich accumulation of visual, textual, and symbolic content, Milad invites us to struggle with the act of making meaning as well as our desire to know, understand, translate, and thus take ownership of her pieces.
This exhibit of African ritual objects explores gender fluidity through the creative force of the mother
This exhibition proves that gender is not a universally held construct.
On the photographer's Kubrickian control of color and shape
"I feel like I spend a lot of time observing non-traditional artistic objects, and I consider them art."
