Your work investigates the body as form, as sculpture, as living composition. The work seems to bring dance, yoga, and daily movement into the conversation. How and when did you start investigating these themes? I initially started investigating these themes while in undergraduate school. I was studying psychology at the time at Wesleyan University. My…
Evan Holm is a kinetic installation artist who utilizes sound and music machinery to make sculptures which speak towards nature, tradition, music, poetry, time, and movement. His work has a poetic quality which is a must see through his beautifully documented videos on his website When and where were you when you first started incorporating…
The first time I met Yulia, I was still a student at UC Berkeley and Yulia was an artist in residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. I remember touring her studio in admiration and wide-eyed wonder. She was living the artist journey that I dreamed of, so I picked up her business card…
Clare and Marcela met at her opening this spring and got to talking about Marcela’s work. Marcela graduated from SFAI with her MFA. She originates from Colombia and her work utilizes photography, color, and objects to create staged photos that question our paranoia and ideas surrounding race and gender. When I visited your studio at…
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Venison Magazine, my friend and colleague, Amber Imrie-Situnayake spent the majority of this past October in a shipping container. As an artist-in-residence at NDSM Treehouse in Amsterdam, she designed and installed a series of thread installations that were site-specific to one of the art city’s many shipping containers nested in a shipbuilding yard….
You have a BA in Jewellery Design but shifted into web development shortly thereafter. What led you to making the choice to shift gears and complete a web development immersive? When I chose jewellery design as a subject to study, I was 16 and did not know a lot about what the world has to…
John Peña is a visual artist who has aimed to establish a routine where he connects with the world each and every single day, pointing out the ordinary moments you and I may not acknowledge as significant. Daily Geology, just one of his ongoing projects is a beautiful awakening to the little moments that give each day…
Raised in LA and Orange County during the 80’s & 90’s, Ryan reflects back to remnants of both eras through creating artwork with vibrant color and exuberant floral elements. While his works hold minimal backstories, continually his work seems to brush upon a fleeting childhood, nostalgia, and the complex emotions of exploring adolescence. Why is art…
Jennifer Huang just finished her first year at the Art Institute of Chicago. If you have been an avid Venison Magazine reader you might recognize Jennifer’s name. She has been involved with Venison since our founding through her previous involvement in the collective Weeknight Rodeo from which we originated. This feature comes in two parts, a…
Masako Miyazaki is currently living in California, furthering her studies at Stanford University. She studies the various ways we come into being. And by we, I mean everything. She takes a closer look at the process and not the end product. Masako’s Artist Statement: If extremes mark the outermost bounds, then the space within consists…
