Addressing space as a complex playground of sensory improvisations, my installations’ nature is to warp our perceptions by toying with space as a teetering situational balance. The search is to find the uncanny moments in the work’s awkward pauses, sweet spots of tension, potentials for action, and the explosions of material cacophony. How would you…
I found Alice on Instagram, searching through #fiberart, I found her mandalas and I knew there was so much behind them, I wanted to learn more about the person making them: who is she, how did she know to produce them, and what might she teach us? Alice was kind enough to meet me for…
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 –…
