Art

 Illustration #drawing #nature #Salma Price-Nell #trees September 21, 2023 Grace Ebert “Tree of Duality.” All images © Salma Price-Nell, shared with permission Salma Price-Nell gravitates toward patterns, harnessing their aesthetic and metaphorical properties through ink drawings. Currently based in the U.K., the Cape Malay illustrator painstakingly renders wispy willow tendrils, gnarled trunks, and wide, sloping canopies with delicate crosshatching …

Internationally recognized for her combined use of painting, moving image, and sculpture, the Vietnamese artist Thao Nguyen Phan creates dreamlike and poetic narratives that trace the history of her country in relation to contemporary environmental and social changes. The exhibition, conceived as a layering of audio, visual, and tactile references among videos, sculptures, watercolors, silk and lacquer paintings, explores Phan’s …

HARTFORD, Conn. — When you first enter my grandfather’s small but lively apartment in Harlem, two black-and-white photographs at the front of his living room illustrate his dreams and legacy. The top one, taken by Russell Lee in 1941, shows five Black boys dressed in suits sitting atop a car on Easter morning on the South Side of Chicago. Below …

 Art Craft #Carol Long #ceramics #fungi #insects #nature #sculpture September 21, 2023 Grace Ebert All images © Carol Long, shared with permission Midwestern flora and fauna are the foundation for Carol Long’s lavishly adorned sculptures, which elegantly meld Art Nouveau embellishments with natural motifs. The Kansas-based artist (previously) continues her process of pushing and pulling the sides of a …

“In Congo to be late is like a poem.” Mukendi is less a sculptor than a fractal force of nature. He’s an energy bloom, unfolding in endless variations of rhyming forms. Let’s start with the show within a show, embedded in the robot’s chest. Does it work? “The robot works” he says, “as art.” The robot (a word from the …

Artist Xaviera Simmons has called out New York’s Queens Museum for repurposing part of her site-specific installation without her consent. The structure in question, conceived for her installation “Align,” was the centerpiece of Simmons’s solo exhibition Crisis Makes a Book Club at the institution this past winter. “Align” comprised a large walled enclosure with an opening in one wall and …

Born in China and based in New York, artist Jiannan Wu specializes in sculpture. He received his BFA in Sculpture from China Academy of Art and his MFA in Sculpture from New York Academy of Art. Through his wall-mounted reliefs, Wu presents an array of social events, from politics to sports, as a way of exploring themes of contemporary urban …

 Illustration #Alberto Seveso #collage #coral #digital #ink #water September 20, 2023 Grace Ebert All images © Alberto Seveso, shared with permission Photographer Alberto Seveso (previously) continues his high-speed captures of ink as it disperses in water, this time inspired by marine organisms. As its name suggests, The Reef is a collection that spotlights vivid plumes in shades of greens, …

The works in “Afterlife,” investigate the transformative and transgressive potential of grief, loss and remembrance. Charged with yearning, tenderness, and at times, agony, several works explore the loss of self-identity and the struggle to regain coherent selfhood. Through narrative, storytelling and imagination, these ideas are interwoven with themes of mortality (our own and others), interconnectedness (or lack thereof), self-legibility and …

LOS ANGELES — Months before it opened, Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) promised to draw attention to one of the demographics most neglected by United States art institutions: female-identifying artists in or from Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). Like so many gender- or …