Talismans of Time
By Visual Art Issue 119
I don’t pretend that I am capturing the truth about my subjects. I’m interested in creating something that feels timeless, that could have been made at any moment.
Read MoreBreasts: A Graphic Essay
By Visual Art Issue 119
In Sicily, they bake Mini di Virginia, little pink cakes with cherries for nipples, to honor her saint’s day.
Read MoreCurator’s Corner
By Visual Art Issue 119
As a curator, I have a nearly mystical sense of the power of objects to open a portal between history and today, lives long ended and lives currently unfolding.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 119
It’s interesting to me how quick we are to trust a museum’s account of history simply because it’s presented in a way that feels organized and professional. We gloss over whatever seems unappealing or doesn’t fit into the story we are trying to tell. In many ways, I think fiction can tell a more honest story than what we consider to be the truth.
Read MoreVermeer Fever
By Visual Art Issue 118
It was always Vermeer’s instinct to return us to our truest selves, but to do so he had to learn how to make his figures vulnerable.
Read MoreCalled to Action: Spirituality and Activism in the Work of Caron Tabb
By Visual Art Issue 118
She seeks out materials rife with metaphor—Jewish ritual objects, found objects, repurposed garments—then transforms them with paint, cement, fire, and text, with the goal of sparking dialogue, increasing empathy, and engaging in difficult conversations.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 118
My art practice also ebbs and flows like the liturgical seasons.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 118
I thought about how, as a society, we haven’t understood this lesson of humility and service: we don’t know what it means to wash one another’s feet, just like we haven’t comprehended the meaning of “love thy neighbor.”
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 117
Once you explore the revelations of science—from the multiverse to black holes, dark matter, and quantum physics—there is a realization that in our era humankind is experiencing the birth of a profound new consciousness. All births are painful and contain elements of danger and risk, but births are the necessary threshold for evolving potential.
Read MoreAudacious Borrowing: Contemporary Art Revisits the Renaissance
By Visual Art Issue 117
What is it about the familiar visual vocabulary of Renaissance—the haloes, the gold leaf, the careful arrangements of figures, that makes it so ripe for borrowing?
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