David Douard Work from Permanent Hymns at Galerie Chantal Crousel. “Language is the very basis of David Douard’s work. The texts and poems he collects on the Internet are manipulated, transformed in order to become a vital flow, feeding into his sculptures. Through language as an ingredient, David Douard redefines space as hybrid and collective […]

Anthea Hamilton Work from The Prude. “… For the prude, modesty becomes extreme. The prude will not permit themselves, or others, sensuous enjoyment in life. Hamilton’s interest in the literary figure of “the prude” in part, references Cecil Vyse — the aloof character of E.M Forster’s A Room with a View (1908). Perceiving himself a […]

Anne de Vries Work from his oeuvre. “Anne de Vries is a Dutch artist working on the border of digital photography and other media, such as video and sculpture since 2003. De Vries is interested in how our understanding of reality is influenced by new media. He reconnects paradoxical elements, including different types of materials, […]

Precious Okoyomon Work from To See the Earth Beyond the End of the World. “Precious Okoyomon – poet, artist, and chef – stages sculptural topographies composed of living, growing, decaying, and dying materials, including rock, water, wildflowers, snails, and vines. For Okoyomon, nature is inseparable from the historical marks of colonisation and enslavement. In their […]

Robert Morris Work from his oeuvre. “Robert Morris (1931–2018) was one of the most influential figures in postwar American art. His extraordinarily versatile practice encompassed dance performance, minimalist sculpture, earthworks, drawing, painting, film, photography, collage, readymades and theoretical essays. Primarily based in New York City, the artist explored in his oeuvre the perception of objects, […]

Y. Malik Jalal Work from his oeuvre. “Y. Malik Jalal (b. 1994, Savannah, Georgia) utilizes traditional craft and collage techniques to explore themes of Black history, power and humanity. By merging materials like steel and iron with an index of found photos depicting Black American family life in unexpected and intimate moments, he addresses the […]

Torkwase Dyson Work from A Liquid Place. “Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure and architecture. Dyson’s abstract works are visual and material systems used to construct fusions of surface tension, movement, scale, real and finite space. With an emphasis on the ways black […]

Riitta Ikonen and Karoline Hjorth. Work from Eyes as Big as Plates. “Eyes as Big as Plates began in 2011 as a collaborative project between Norwegian-Finnish artist duo Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen. Initially conceived as a play on characters from Nordic folklore, the project has grown to over 150 portraits created in 17 countries […]

In Regards to Nostalgia at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Works by Mark Albain, Jesse Ly, and Aubrey Theobald. Curated by Sso-Rha Kang, text via Under Main Magazine by C.M. Turner. In October, the Art Academy of Cincinnati’s Pearlman Gallery opened In Regards to Nostalgia, an interdisciplinary group show exploring the poetics and complexities of […]

Quayola Work from Sculpture Factory. “Sculpture Factory, the work by Quayola […] extends the reach of these new spaces onto the factory floor. The artist displays the construction of one of his unfinished sculptures as a performative sculpture in itself. For eight weeks, a robotic milling machine chips away at blocks of material, producing a […]