Jennifer Rabin Crystal Schenk, Artifacts of Memory, 2012. Magnets, wire, silk flower petals. All images courtesy of Cris Moss. Walking into the Linfield Gallery, where Crystal Schenk’s Artifacts of Memory is installed, is a disorienting experience. It is difficult to…
Category: Supernature
Supernature issue of Drain
Interview with Carrie Gundersdorf
Avantika Bawa My first meeting with Carrie Gundersdorf was at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where we were graduate students in the Painting and Drawing department. I have followed her work closely since then. Of special interest…
An Art of Making-Do: Xin Cheng Mixtures
Victoria Wynne-Jones Xin Cheng, Mixtures, 2011. Images: Asumi Mizuo Survival is a most serious business and is interrogated throughout the work of Auckland-based artist Xin Cheng. Cheng’s sculptural practice demonstrates a preoccupation with objects people often create to meet basic…
Interview with Isabel Manalo
Craig Drennen If Only, Oil and Photos on Yupo, 30″ x 30″ Craig Drennen: I wanted to begin by talking about nature and the landscape. So many of your works from past four years include images of nature. Yet your treatment of…