Paul Baker Prindle is a photographer and arts administrator based at the University of Nevada, Reno. We were drawn to Prindle’s photographic series Mementi Mori, which documents sites where gay and transgender men were murdered. In each photograph we are presented with a moment that captures the gravity of the silence surrounding the murders of…
Inspirational concept based photographer, Dave McHale, shares his art process and his beautifully deep photography for the first time with Amber Imrie-Situnayake. Dave is a photographer originally from the Boston area, he moved to NYC and studied photography at Pratt Institute for two years before leaving to work as an assistant for numerous fashion photographers….
Tell me a bit about where you grew up & what your upbringing was like. I grew up just east of Toronto, Ontario in Canada. My family and I lived further away from town on one of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario, so I had a kind of remote and scenic upbringing. My father is…
Abrams Claghorn Gallery 1251 Solano Ave, Albany, California 94706Showing July 5 – August 31, 2017 Recption: Saturday July 15, 5 – 7 pm Artist Talk: Saturday August 12, 5 – 7pm Rebecca Reeves has been a part of our wonderful Venison community since our first year, 2014. When we did a full feature of her work…
I had found out about Matt Hall’s work, like so many other artists I have found recently, through Instagram. I loved the way he was combining traditional skeletal articulation and conceptual ideas. Pouring over the sculptures and cabinets on his website, I saw little hints of Joseph Cornell, Mark Dion, and a sort of Mellvinian…
I race the day in my Mitsubishi Mirage rental trying to make Sioux City before sundown. Using Omaha as my base, I take turns each day with the 29 and the 75 on the respective Iowa and Nebraska sides of the Missouri River, which, in this part of the country, runs northward before it starts…
Candice Lin recently finished a residency at the 18th Street Arts Center, an organization I volunteer with and absolutely admire. So of course I had to go to the opening of Lin’s You Are a Spacious Fluid Sac at François Ghebaly Gallery, where she is a returning exhibitor. I came upon so much more than I’d expect and can’t…
San Francisco-based curator A.R. Vazquez-Concepcion untangles threads of history, knowledge production, and colonialism in Bestiario/Menagerie, a vibrant, 10-person group exhibition on view at Adobe Books Back Gallery through January 28. Bestiario or “bestiary”, roughly translated, describes a compendium of animals – imaginary and real – that was bound in book or illuminated manuscript form. Dating to second century Greece,…
Penny Contemporary 187 Liverpool Street Hobart Tasmania, Australia How often do we get out work done a week or so early? Not often, in my experience. Luckily Camilla completed her works for Meager Form early, and we got to reap the benefits. Here’s a look into my studio visit with her! Meager Form is comprised of sculptures and collographs…
