Parinya Champ (b. 1984, Manhattan) is a Los Angeles based visual artist and source-field researcher. I met him at a group show in downtown Los Angeles. What convinced me most to reach out to him was the reaction of the audience to his work, at the show. We weren’t all just in awe; we all felt…
How would you describe your subject matter or the content of your art practice? My work finds its origin in historic, scientific and/or anatomic sources ranging from the woodcuts by Andreas Vesalius to CT-scans, MRI-scans, autopsy images and the plastinations by Gunther von Hagens. As in medical practice, I dissect the body layer by layer….
Where in Northern California did you grow up? I grew up on a ranch, in a valley surrounded by redwoods, on the outskirts of a town called Kings Mountain. Kings Mountain is about an hour south of San Francisco clustered around Highway 35, otherwise known as Skyline Blvd. How is this natural imagery significant to…
“My work results from dynamic interactions between personal reflections on human nature, to meet and see the world as it is, and the multiple perspectives of my own gaze. The attempts to visually translate these specific configurations of subject, time, and place, are usually photographic, but also sometimes integrate video, design or additional installations. The…
I stumbled upon Brian’s work while mining through buckets of Instagram images stamped with #wip, the Insta-artist’s denotation for a work in progress. I was immediately struck by his satisfying brand of visceral yet minimalistic portraiture and decided to reach out to him about his work. Thanks to the instant connectivity of the social media…
Wendy Red Star was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana. Red Star’s work is informed by her cultural heritage. Her work explores the intersection of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both in historical and in contemporary society. Wendy Red Star was chosen for this issue because her work speaks strongly about the ingrained…
This year I’m starting my fifth year as a full time art teacher at a large Bay Area public high school, and it has been 9 years since I began teaching. I am also a practicing and exhibiting artist. It has, at times, been a struggle to balance the demanding task of teaching and…
