Beyond the Veil: Art and the Spirit World
By Visual Art Issue 114
Spirituality often emerges from religious sources that don’t always fit within curatorial frameworks, and these traditions have their own distinct influences on the meaning and practice of artmaking today.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 114
After the George Floyd murder and protests, painter Askia Bilal began a series called Non-Portraits, exploring his experience of Blackness.
Read MoreA Philosopher for Artists: Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin and Theodore L. Prescott on Susanne Langer
By Visual Art Issue 113
“Philosophy of art should start in the studio and not in the museum or the concert hall or library” (Susanne Langer)
Read MoreThe Missing Mother
By Visual Art Issue 113
I maintain that we need more of her: the vessel, the container, the harbor.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 113
I think now is an interesting time, when the dialogue between religion and science can advance our understanding of the world like a mirror.
Read MoreDivine Intimations: Contemporary Floral Design for Sacred Spaces
By Visual Art Issue 112
Even John Calvin, who forbade the use of images in worship, waxed eloquent on the beauty of the natural world and the presence of God in the theater of creation. Arranged flowers seem an ideal way to bring that “third book” of God into the sacred space.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 112
I’ve been struck by the immense beauty in the communities I have been a part of, both in Nigeria and now in Canada, as well as grieved by the levels of hardship. The motif of the garden, which I explore in my work, has become a place for me to sit with this contradiction.
Read MoreCurator’s Corner
By Visual Art Issue 111
I have often said that contemporaneity—much like modernity and creativity—does not belong to one race, place, or economy.
Read MorePortraiture and Personhood: Hubbard and Birchler’s Flora
By Visual Art Issue 111
The soundtrack alternates between David speaking about his mother’s life and his memories of her, and a voiceover narration in which Flora recalls her life in Paris. However, a viewer can only watch one side of the screen at a time—either Flora’s or David’s.
Read MoreWorking in the Dark
By Visual Art Issue 111
The heaviness of the questions I was trying to answer demanded a slower pace than photography alone could give me. I began sewing plant material from the farm into prints, and when I put the results in my scanner bed, I discovered that they became illuminated in unique ways, transformed into cosmic-looking abstractions.
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