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 […]
I was so honored to be the inaugural studio visit for the House Calls series with the U-M Institute for the Humanities. This amazing combination of thought leadership and genuine care for artists is just one of the reasons I’m excited to show work there in the Fall. Here’s my […]
In the ongoing motif of having a personality divided along a fault line of equal and diametrically opposing forces: I love traveling and I love coming home. I love easing back into the rhythms and responsibility of my daily existence, but I also love the weird bubble of space that […]
It’s a lecture! By me! What will I say? Let’s find out together! Finding Evidence – The Art of Detection in an Interdisciplinary Practice – Miami University Art Department Thursday October 24 5:50pm Art 100 Artist and writer Sarah Rose Sharp talks about the multitudinous factors in creating a self-sustaining […]
I am curious today about the continuum of experiences artists have with their objects—if objects are what you make. I am always prone to hyper-fiddly types of making processes, given any amount of time, space, and materials—which, for the first time in my life, I have in simultaneous abundance #blessed—and […]
Here’s a closely-guarded secret of the art world, one of those things I believe no one is supposed to admit aloud: nobody knows what is supposed to happen during a studio visit. The studio visit is regarded as one of those crucial times, where a visiting dignitary will alight upon […]
I want to talk about who we choose to tell our stories, and what it means to be entrusted with that obligation. I’ve never been on a residency before; I don’t know how to do it. I had to make my own way. I knew for certain the right way […]
Recently, I took about a month off work, and I’ve spent a lot of that time thinking about capitalism. Much as I love art, it’s become necessary for me to evaluate the power of my own creative labor in writing about it and begin to reallot and repurpose that energy, […]
Part of my fascination with stickers is that the fact of what they various represent is a specific kind of evidence about the world. It is one thing, as an artist, to imagine up any number of objects or scenarios and project them into 2D reality; it is another to […]