I came across Meline and her work by browsing Instagram. Initially, I couldn’t grasp what was going on. Looking at art is incredible, but understanding it is even more so. I was a bit overwhelmed, which naturally meant I had to get to know this artist. After studying her work and speaking with her—I’ve become…
Amber Imrie-Situnayake’s Picks @amberimrie I was fortunate enough to travel out to New York last weekend for three days! I took this time to indulge in a much needed art-cation, I went from galleries to museums, and returned home with a stack of new books and even some small works of art! Since this trip…
Tell me a bit about the role of art in your life and when you found an interest in illustration. I look at art–broadly, across disciplines–as a pathway or a conduit toward an altered consciousness. Even before I knew what that meant, I could still feel it, and I think that’s true of anyone. As…
Residencies in Jamaica & Beyond You live and work in your home country of England, but your art practice has taken you all over the world. Tell me a bit about the different residencies that you’ve visited and what series you made there? My first residency was in Jamaica, a real fluke, straight out of…
Quire is a Portland based mixed media artist, who discusses her series Science of Change, previous grant experience and collaging. What is it about the human connection that interests you and why are you drawn to making work through many voices? It’s just how my mind works. When I was in college my dorm room…
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,…
This October the On-Sight Project is thrilled to announce a rare solo exhibition by Oakland kinetic sculptor Nemo Gould. His first solo show in many years, Parts & Labor includes several new never before shown works. On view now through November 12th. Open Fridays 10am-2pm, Saturdays 1-4pm and by appointment. This collection of intricate mechanical sculptures promises a…
Review by Danielle Schlunegger-Warner Growth/Decay was co-curated by Susannah Kelly and Neil Perry of Antler Gallery with Sara McCorriston and Jason Chen from Paradigm Gallery. Both Galleries were started by artists and enthusiasts that wanted to create a space for building community and showing the work of emerging artists. Growth/Decay was a great opportunity for artists to gain exposure in a new…
A month passes by so quickly. Between family and work, it’s difficult to find the time alone, to let my hand scribble feverishly across paper, but leaving that desire to take note of all that is happening unsatisfied. My cousin’s wedding prompted the largest family gathering since I was in elementary school. I didn’t realize…
Nazish Chunara’s Picks: Nora Ruzsics & Emmerich Weissenberger opening at 18th Street Art Center in Los Angeles, CA. April-May 2015. SIGNALS are artworks that are being created during this journey and will be brought to Austria and other countries as the ART EMBASSY, a documentary film recorded of the journey. It is important to the artists, that current messages will be constantly…
