COLUMBUS, OH — The Yoruba philosophy of ase or ashe (fromàṣẹ) speaks to a way of life with specific spiritual and social constructs, but also has a particular influence on Yoruba artmaking. Aside from the precise rituals associated with deities, there is a general notion of piece-work — countless individual […]
In terms of the fine art world, one of the first major hurdles for quilters was to be seen as artists, rather than (or at least in addition to) craftspeople. Now fiber art has come a long way from fringe practice to becoming part of the natural weft of the […]
“The overarching intention of the work seems to be located somewhere in the psychic territory between nostalgia and satire.” First of all, K.A. Letts has really emerged as a champion for regional arts writing on top of her prodigious chops as an artist. Secondly, as someone who is more used […]
Do you love to see me talk out my face about my art? YOU’RE IN LUCK!! Debuting to day, a follow up to my Spring House Call with Amanda Krugliak, brialliant person and Director of the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Gallery, wherein we discuss my show, Results […]
50 years is an aeon in the art world, and a powerful increment of time by which to mark change in contemporary ideas. The book Objects: USA 2020 (The Monacelli Press, 2020) seeks just such a reckoning, by first revisiting and recapping the influential exhibition, Objects: USA, presented in 1969 at […]
Folks, I am wildly proud to be able to finally debut the virtual gallery for my show, Results or Roses, at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Gallery. To get to work with Amanda Krugliak, whose work as a curator I have been in awe of for years, […]
It’s back-to-school time, which means we’re all going to have to submit our reports on what we did this summer. Aside from garden stuff and learning different ways to use sourdough starter to make an array of breakfast baked goods — and watching LOTS of Netflix and listening to LOTS […]
Taking a moment to celebrate the completion of a piece I started on New Year’s Day of this year. The buffalo hoop actually became its own separate thing, one of several pieces I completed concurrently with this one. It seems to be my way to start a lot of pieces […]
The perception of photography as a documental form is based on a simple premise: you cannot photograph something that isn’t there. In his latest project, photographer Stephen Berkman turns this idea on its head by claiming to document what is no longer there … and maybe what never was. On […]