Dear Reader, My final edition of “How To Give a Shit” is a meandering farewell letter. It’s been one full year of the column, and a deeply valuable experience for me personally. I write this as I prepare to leave for shows in Europe and, ultimately, for a two-month residency in France with Maja. To be honest,…
“Those rich motherfuckering landlords couldn’t wait to get us out so they could build their precious condo.” My studio neighbor conspiratorially leans into me as we chat in the hallway of our new artist work building. After being booted from our former artist warehouse in Glassell Park, many of us moved together into a new…
You were there on that shocking night. I saw you. With a few of your friends nearby, you sat on a plastic chair or a couch or on the floor talking loudly and laughing at jokes while eating pizza or cookies or drinking an alcoholic beverage. You might have even gone ahead and opened a…
Hawaii based, mixed media artist, Nisha Pinjani explores mental, emotional and physical boundaries laid upon women in her hometown of Karachi through experimental printmaking. Her process includes overlapping collograph prints with sewing, weaving, and even stapling, to open up a dialogue that mirrors the restrictions women experience. What kind of research is necessary to create…
In light of the Holiday Season, a time for friends and family to come together, we thought it was important for our readers to get to know who we are. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing to you the creators and contributors of Venison Magazine: the art publication run by artists for artists. Amber Imrie-Situnayake Amber grew up…
Lauren Szabo is a San Francisco based artist originally from Los Angeles. Lauren’s work talks about our daily interactions with media, signage, advertisements, their fragility and temporality. We chose to speak with Szabo because her work took on new political context through the campaign and election. After hearing the popular phase “Make America Great Again”…
Whit Taylor is a cartoonist, writer, and editor from New Jersey. She received a Glyph Award for her mini-comic Watermelon in 2012 and an Ignatz nomination for her series Madtown High in 2013. Some of her recent work includes The Anthropologists (Sparkplug Books), comics essays for The Nib, and Subcultures: A Comics Anthology, which she edited for Ninth Art Press. She has written for Panel Patter, Comics…
Why do you make the work that you do? I make the work I do because there are things I want to express that there just aren’t words for. I’m fascinated by spaces and things that simultaneously exist infinitely and not at all. The sensation of space and especially digital space is invisible yet ever…
What are your driving forces? Motivations? Muse? Introducing and sharing timeless Japanese aesthetics with a global audience. Reinterpreting Zen philosophy to be understood easily and to help incorporate it in everyday life. Combining art and technology to encourage community interaction. Who are your inspirations? Artisans, scientists and engineers. I am inspired by people who are…
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…
