We got to know Shannon at Venison’s first session of Art Camp last spring. She was a last minute attendee who filled an open spot just in the nick of time, and we are sure glad she did! Shannon Taylor is a professional watercolorist based out of Oakland, California. With exception to the summer she…
Adriana interviews Los Angeles-based artist and taxidermist, Lauren Kane, whose work is driven by a lifetime love of animals and fascination with the unknown of death. Being constantly influenced by her fears of sickness and the afterlife, her work is sentimental and gentle. It emphasizes each creature’s perfect and precious place it once held in this…
Jeremiah Jenkins is a contemporary artist based in Oakland who grew up in Tennessee. Jenkin’s work explores American culture through the lies we tell ourselves, the fears we cultivate, and failures we experience. We chose to speak with Jeremiah because his work has been exposing our cultural dilemmas for some time and his work’s purpose…
Welcome to Venison’s Weekly Blog! Here you will find advice, show reviews, thoughts and short articles by the Venison Team. We welcome your input comments and thoughts in return! Interview by Danielle Schlunegger-Warner Walking into Hap Gallery in Portland I was immediately confronted with several golden and headless deer forms on a field of perfect…
I discovered Tyler Thrasher’s art through a mutual friend, J.A.W. Cooper, who posted his work on her Instagram page. I was intrigued by the work right away, but it wasn’t until further investigation that I realized, he was crafting his art in the Ozark Mountains, a source of inspiration for my own body of work….
Adriana Villagran interviews Angela Gram, a painter, writer, and educator living and working in New Jersey. She received a MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She is also a co-founder of the blog Quantumartreview, a source for art criticism, essays, and interviews that investigate the intersections…
From the artist – “I make objects that behave like bodies. Teasing out the slippery relationship between desire, intimacy and power, these sculptural bodies are non-binary. They shift and meld into different categories, questioning what is masculine and feminine, plant and animal, cultural and natural.” There are certain places in the USA and in the…
Amanda McCavour is a Toronto-based artist who makes drawings, installations and embroideries. Amanda uses thread as a mechanism for creating delicate three-dimensional “drawings” that explore the connections between textiles and the body. In this article, Adriana investigates her enigmatic embroidery process, her transition in and our of academia, and how it effects her artistic process….
Jonathan Odom is from Louisiana but live and works in the Bay Area with his artist- wife Clare Szydlowski. (Who we interviewed in Spring 2015) Jonathan attended Venison Camp, our adult camp for art professionals. It was during his Labs session (like Critiques) that we got to talking about world building, the sci-fi, and what his…
How To Give a Shit is a monthly column by artist Joshua Hagler, which explores art in Los Angeles in funny and unconventional ways. It ran in our Quarteries from Spring 2016-2017. You can find them through our quarterly releases or here, conveniently archived in order for your reading pleasure.
