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…
Scott Andrew and I met up this March near his home in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill. Scott is a multimedia artist, whose solo work dances across immersive videos, installations, sculptures, and performances to “evoke a childlike yearning for play.” Scott is also a primary collaborator and co-founder of the Institute for New Feeling, “a research clinic committed…
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….
Venison founder Amber-Imrie Situnayake recently launched Critique Club, a series of meet-ups for professional artists to engage in thoughtful critique sessions and receive invaluable feedback. Venison artists Danielle Schlunegger, Clare Szydlowski, Adriana Villagran, and of course Amber herself were the first to participate. The following article written by Adriana Villagran discusses the structure and goals…
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…
Lucy Wonsower’s art history lesson and first person experience of Istanbul’s ancient multicultural basilica, the Aya Sofya. I ended up in Istanbul this October through a variety of altered plans, the almost arbitrary decision to go to Turkey gave me the opportunity to visit some places I hadn’t thought about since Art History class at university. Mosques,…
How To Give a Shit is a monthly column by artist Joshua Hagler, which explores art in Los Angeles in funny and unconventional ways. Passing through rooms of artschoolish sculptures and videos, eventually I come to the first paintings in the Made in LA Biennial at the Hammer Museum. They are photo realistic depictions of various website screens with…
Guatemala born mixed-media artist Paula Morales explores time, migration, futurology, utility and desire in her installations, gifs, and video work. In this interview Paula speaks with us about the inspiration behind her works, and how the forms in which they take utilize us to travel through time. Your work has been described as dealing with…
Lauren’s work has built a bridge between science and art in the way that reminds us how enchanting the human anatomy is, even post mortem. Her series of sculptures, paintings and drawings are carefully determined through research, grazing upon the surface of potential memories and stories. She teaches art and anatomy at Stanford University while…
Joshua Hagler explores how to give a shit about contemporary art in this ongoing series. “I never believed in any of it,” Camilla says. “I never believed in God. I never had that transformative spiritual experience that gives [other religious people] that sense of God they describe.” We sit with tea and talk in her studio, Camilla…
