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Tatu Tuominen is a Finnish artist whose work contextualizes archival material within discourses on ecology and built environment. A lecturer in printmaking at University of the Arts Helsinki, his practice includes printmaking, installation, collage, and moving image. Image: Can you tell me about your spiritual or religious background growing up? TT: It was shaped by…

WHEN I WAS THIRTY, a fire destroyed my childhood home, where I still lived, and nearly everything I owned. Books and sketchbooks, clothes, furniture, and years’ worth of paintings and textile art in cotton, linen, and silk—all of it burned. Afterward, I turned toward making work in ceramics and steel. These media gave me permanence…

A WEIGHTY COWHIDE over a coatrack. A mighty African woman adorned with elephant dung. A disheveled Latvian man indifferently stuffing an apple into a child’s mouth. All of these are contemporary renderings of the Virgin Mary (by Dorothy Cross, Chris Ofilli, and Ance Eikena, respectively). Over the past decade, the Western visual art scene has…

Perri Lynch Howard uses painting, drawing, installation, and audio recording to investigate the passage of light, sound, and signal through the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems. She is represented by the Seattle Art Museum Gallery and ArtX Contemporary and is a volunteer field recording ambassador with Quiet Parks International. Image: What kind of religious and cultural…

But lookers do something important: They reveal the constructedness of the endeavor of photography itself.

When I am deeper into this process, the patterns begin to develop, and I can sense a power of realization or truth, like looking up at the stars and knowing you are nothing and everything all at once.

For those who believe in providence, there may be little difference between a prairie fire lit by lightning and one lit by human hand: Either way, it accords with the divine plan.

Marcus Clarke’s practice surveys the affective and symbolic language of American Christian subcultures through aversion and desire. His sculptures, prints, films, and installations engage with kitsch and camp, using tactics of the attention economy and of post-cynical sincerity to investigate how Christendom haunts culture. He was interviewed by Ellie Driscoll.   Image: Much of your…

Triangles have a special place in her abstract work, sometimes commenting on the politics of space, such as geodesy and the Orientalist map-making undertaken by colonial powers.