Art

 Art Colossal #embroidery #portraits #Zoë Buckman September 28, 2023 Grace Ebert “songs leak from my bedroom walls” (2023). Photo by Charles Benton. All images © Zoë Buckman, courtesy of Lyes & King, shared with permission What responsibility does an artist have to care for her viewers? Zoë Buckman thinks deeply about this question and discusses it in a recent …

— It’s a curious habit of mine to entertain the possibility of supernatural entities while sharing tales of the eerie and macabre. Despite the rational part of my mind insisting that such things are impossible, I still find myself succumbing to the persuasive influence of my own storytelling. It’s almost as if the act of recounting ghost stories infuses the …

Winnipeg-based artist Divya Mehra’s inflatables made a splash last weekend during Nuit Blanche 2023, Toronto’s annual public art festival. Curated by Kari Cwynar around the theme “Breaking Ground,” the festival hosted two of Mehra’s jumbo-sized soft sculptures, which used the city’s financial district on Bay Street as a backdrop to call attention to the consequences of colonialism and capitalism in …

 Art #apocalypse #architecture #houses #miniature #mixed media #sculpture #Simon Laveuve September 28, 2023 Kate Mothes Detail of “Le Rocher / IDF2068” (2023), mixed media, 67 x 20 x 20 centimeters. All images © Simon Laveuve, shared with permission Paris-based artist Simon Laveuve imagines a world filled with anarchic architecture in his ongoing series of detailed, miniature shelters (previously). At …

“LUST” is the first European solo exhibition to focus on the work of American feminist artist, political satirist and activist Anita Steckel as well as a series of readings by French writer Constance Debré and British artist, writer and political dominatrix Reba Maybury. Curated by writer and curator Juliette Desorgues, “LUST,” a term suggestive of both desire and play, is …

Within Israeli culture, there is a whole category of hand-wringing media focusing on soldiers or former soldiers grappling with the psychological impact of their actions during their army service. (Any criticism of the legality, validity, and/or morality of the treatment of Palestinians is optional.) This sub-genre is often called “shooting and crying,” and it’s a proven magnet for prestige — …

A lovely series about the ways in which we reflect on moments of heightened emotion by San Francisco-based photographer Amber Hakim. In grappling with intense feelings like love, loss or desire, Hakim challenges the old adage that time heals all wounds, suggesting instead that how we engage (or disassociate) from such memories can often “hold time hostage.” In this sense, …

 Art Design #Jennifer Crupi #jewelry #metal #psychology September 27, 2023 Grace Ebert “Tools for Reassuring Contact, #1,” sterling silver, plastisol rubber dip, and acrylic, 17 x 17 x 6 inches. All images © Jennifer Crupi, shared with permission How do our bodies communicate? Jennifer Crupi prods this question as she designs metal contraptions fit for limbs and torsos. Following …

“By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread, until thou return unto the ground,” says the Bible, when God tells Adam after the original sin and the following expulsion from paradise that he must now earn his living through toil and hard work. Labour serves to earn a living or to secure the necessities of life and …

William Blake, “Pity” (circa 1795) (all photos Michael Glover/Hyperallergic) The great painter William Blake (1757-1827) traveled far in the realms of gold, to borrow a phrase from John Keats, but much less far in the body. (He lived in various parts of London for all but a little more than three years of his relatively long life.)  So, where did …