On the ground among the animals is a research based artistic project exploring the possibility of a “visual ecocriticism.” Over its course, Marina Caneve explores the ambiguities inherent in the dominating role played by human beings over nature and the tensions that emerge from their relationship with other animals. The artist takes her cue from an analytical study of the …
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How Craft Helps Chamorros Reconnect to the Ocean
This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2024 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft. From seashell and tortoiseshell body adornments to carving, seafaring, and tool-making, the unique beauty and history of Chamorro craft are rooted in concepts of reciprocity and deep respect for our ancestors, the land, water, …
Read More »Mark Krzepis – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
A selection of work by Toronto-based illustrator Mark Krzepis. Of mixed Filipino and Polish descent, Krzepis is a recent graduate of Ontario College of Art & Design University. He has illustrated cover art for Toronto artists such as BADBADNOTGOOD and Charlotte Day Wilson. After facing a house fire in 2022, Krzepis has focused his work towards the tactility and precariousness …
Read More »Announcing Joy Machine, a New Art Gallery in Chicago — Colossal
As Colossal prepares to turn 15 this year, we’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be part of a creative community. During the last decade and a half, we’ve spoken with thousands of artists, designers, and makers and cultivated a vast network of friends and colleagues around the globe. Publishing has been one of the greatest joys …
Read More »“Franco Raggi. Pensieri instabili (Unstable Thoughts)” at Triennale di Milano
Featuring an installation designed by studio Piovenefabi, it will be held in the Design Platform space in the Museo del Design Italiano dedicated to key topics and figures in contemporary design. The exhibit is an in-depth exploration of Franco Raggi, architect, designer, and intellectual. Active on both the Italian and international scene for over half a century, he participated in …
Read More »Before Black, There Was Blue
Human beings have a tendency toward collection. I have a theory that this desire to hang onto things is more true in times of crisis, but lately, I’ve begun to believe that we also have a tendency toward crisis itself. This makes untying the impulse to collect and the challenges of the times a fairly impossible task. In her new …
Read More »Whimsical Ceramic Sculptures by En Iwamura Evoke Ancient Traditions and Childlike Curiosity — Colossal
In Japanese philosophy, the concept of Ma emphasizes the relationships between time and space and how moments, intervals, and distance provide the basis for how we experience the world around us. Derived from the word Ma, or “間,” which translates to “pause” or “gap,” the idea of negative space is viewed as a fundamental element of art and architecture. For …
Read More »Matthias Groebel “Skull Fuck” at Modern Art, London
Groebel is known for using television imagery, as well as his own photography and films to produce machine assisted paintings and film. This exhibition features rarely seen paintings, as well as new paintings and a film work. Creating his first machine painting in 1989, he translated television signals into code which instructed the machine to apply paint in thin layers …
Read More »We Are Also the Darkness After the Big Explosion
What does a “black consciousness of space” look like? Does it form a positive or a negative, or elide the two? And how about the tension or contrast between a “racialized, propertied world and heterogenous Black and Indigenous imaginaries”? These are some of the questions you will grapple with in the first United States exhibition by Lusaka-born and Johannesburg-based artist …
Read More »Paradise and Precarity Merge in Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Paintings of Los Angeles Life — Colossal
For Jessica Taylor Bellamy, juxtapositions, transparency, and layers shape a way of working that evokes her family history and notions of home and landscape. Born to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and an Afro-Cuban Jamaican father, Bellamy was raised in Whittier, just southeast of Los Angeles. In glowing oil paintings, she draws from personal mementos like photographs, sales receipts, and newspaper …
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