Victoria Wynne-Jones flesh of stone her black gown black McCahon the door shut on now a white shawl – Joanna Margaret Paul [1] There is a black painting on a white wall. Its surface is slick and licked, quite oily…
Author: avantika
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…
The Science of Letting Go: Interview with Seana Reilly
Casey Lynch All works by and courtesy of the artist. TippingPoint, 2011, graphite on Dibond, 36″ x 48″ There is really only one way to describe the imagery of Seana Reilly’s “pourings”: undeniable. In a series of experiments with liquid…
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”…
Smoke and Clouds; Zoe Leonard’s 1961, 2002-Ongoing Suitcases through the lens of Rosalind Krauss’s “The /Cloud/”
Katherine Rosenheim Zoe Leonard, 1961, 2002 – ongoing, Blue suitcases, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany. Photo by Bill Jacobson The exhibition Blues for Smoke curated by Bennett Simpson opened October 21st at the…
Being-with a Loss: The Productive Possibilities of Darkness in Gary Hill’s Dervish (1993-95).
Megan Toye “I would argue that unease, discomfort or frustration – along with fear, contradiction, exhilaration and absurdity – can be crucial to any work’s artistic impact.” -Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship Gary Hill,…
Brown Boy, Red Ghost
Vanessa Norton When their blue-eyed children grew too old for the Presbyterian choir, the only WASP couple on the block adopted a light-skinned boy from Jamaica. Gary, they called him, not thinking it was a jumble of the word gray.…
FantasyPeak2.JPG: Toward a Digital Geology
Daniel J Glendening Some propose that the center of the earth is a giant lump of gold. Others, backed by pulse readings, claim it is molten rock: magma. It’s not. The center of the earth is data, ones and zeros…