More on: visual art

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…

I have often said that contemporaneity—much like modernity and creativity—does not belong to one race, place, or economy.

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.

I love how it changes color with different kinds of light—it’s a different image in the morning than in the evening. Or the color shifts as the viewer moves position. The painting has a little life of its own.

Long before authorities are prepared to tear down walls, artists help us see through them. 

As a queer woman raised Catholic, I have had a complex relationship to the church—making these photographs was part confession, part reconciliation.