Category: BLACK

In recent work, I conjure the spirit of historian, archaeologist or sightseer in order to mirror narratives of nation building, the exotic or nostalgic past. Official and unofficial voices emanate throughout the work, mimicking how personal memories are defined by…

Concerning ‘Carbon Traces’

Patrick Kelly The quality of black in the drawings is dense. It is compacted over time from the meticulous tracing of cut out shapes, used as jigs, as they rotate on the page. The pencil shimmers reflecting and absorbing light.…

In Trying Times, Don’t Quit Trying

Adam Williams In Trying Times, Don’t Quit Trying addresses the transformation and bastardization of information. The photographs and sculptures illustrate the laymen’s attempt at survival in the event (or in preparation) of an unnamed disaster. By appropriating basic, accessible and…

Back Through Black

Marcy Hermansader Back through war Back through black Back toward silence Back toward mystery In 2007 I began making collages out of black paper in response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was so opposed to these wars…

Black Manifold

Black Manifold is a series of short experimental works that delve into how Black operates as sociopolitical force, a slate that can mark a beginning as well as an end, while also engaging with the tactility of film and the…

(Untitled) Syncope

Pat Boas and Simon Boas For it always happened that when I awoke like this, and my mind struggled in an unsuccessful attempt to discover where I was, everything revolved around me through the darkness: things, places, years.” — MP,…

White Noise

Bethany Collins As my father says, one side is unusually—even compulsively—documented, and the other is a black hole that, when you call into it—Who are you?—it only swallows the very question.”[1] “(Unrelated),” (White Noise series), 2012, Chalk on chalkboard, 48”…

Romance in Black

Christopher Carroll MIDWAY upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / For the straightforward pathway had been lost. – Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Tree Line (summer), 2011, monoprint and inkwash on panel.…