Terry Boyd, a minimalist fiber artist, has created bodies of work that express the importance of memory. He’s experimented with traditional sewing, using a bow and arrow, and is now teaching his sewing machine to think like an abstract painter. Through performance, pattern and minimalist fiber art, I explore and interrogate systems of visual language. My…
After five years of intense engagement with water-based media, painter Maja Ruznic turns again to oil painting in an ongoing exploration of trauma and its untold traces in the series Soil as Witness. Examining trauma’s traces through the photographic medium in “Spectral Evidence”, author Ulrich Baer argues that traumatic events and the memories they produce cannot, by the…
To those of you who subscribe to Venison Quarterly, Brain Donnelly may sound familiar. We interviewed him back in our Winter 2014 issue (here) and we are happy to promote his solo-show in the Portland area. We urge our Oregon readers to make it out this exciting exhibition! Nothing Lasts Forever – Show opening in Portland, OR Opening…
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…
A scientist and artist, Arthur Huang documents the mundane task of traveling to and from work. His art showcases the heavy task of recreating his daily routes, sometimes at the end of the day. Just shy from engraving his every move, Arthur has created a world of travels which we were fortunate enough to learn…
Your background is in photography, it was what you were focusing on when we were in the MFA program together at SF State University. How did you first get into making drawings? I know that’s what it seems like, because both my BFA and MFA are in photography, but I have been drawing since I…
How did you realize or notice that you were an artist? Much of my work is performative, through writing and composition of texts, plays, and songs. I was crafting these at a young age. In college, I was more interested in film and photography, but I was always writing and performing my words. After starting…
Time is the strangest thing, and that is especially apparent here in Nebraska. I arrived two weeks ago and find myself asking what has happened since. Three hours can pass by like three seconds back home. It’s not that I haven’t been working, I have – on doors, on temples, on crocheting giant socks –…
Where is your studio space? What is it like in there? My studio is in Gothenburg in Sweden. It’s located in an industrial area not far from the sea. From my window, I can see some old boats and the bridge which leads to the city center on the other side.My studio is a composition…
JH: How would you describe your subject matter or the content of your art practice? SL: I’m interested in the overlap of the body and the home space, which stems from a fascination with permeable and blurred boundaries. I see a lot of similarities between the body and the home as containers, facades and places…
