Venison founder Amber-Imrie Situnayake recently launched Critique Club, a series of meet-ups for professional artists to engage in thoughtful critique sessions and receive invaluable feedback. Venison artists Danielle Schlunegger, Clare Szydlowski, Adriana Villagran, and of course Amber herself were the first to participate. The following article written by Adriana Villagran discusses the structure and goals…
Clare Benson is a contemporary artist based in Arizona who grew up in Michigan. Benson’s work explores rural landscapes, hunting, and identity. We chose to speak with Benson because we felt her work, post election, showed a unique perspective into rural America through exploring gender roles, our relationships with the land, and climate change. Benson…
I stand in front of a question written in obsidian shards. I don’t speak obsidian. I’m not sure anyone does. I’m not even sure Jimmie Durham does, and he’s the one who wrote it. I try to translate. “God! You’re, the a do sad ads (oa) ash… bread as a broad goo?” That can’t be…
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…
Abrams Claghorn Gallery 1251 Solano Ave, Albany, California 94706 Showing 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…
Bed, slightly used. £1,000,000 or Next Best Offer. Or, Growing Older with Tracy Emin: A Future-Thought for Emerging ArtistsIf Wikipedia weren’t so damn credible about it all, I’d scarcely believe that Tracy Emin (C.B.E, R.A, etc) is turning 51 this year. They’ve got her date of birth and everything. I’d like to believe it slipped…
Mary Grisey was born & raised in sunny California but learned how to weave and dye in 2008 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA in Fiber and Material Studies. In 2012 she took her art practice to Canada and received an MFA at York University in Toronto…
Touch. It’s such an important sense. Yet too often it’s deemed inappropriate. We’ve conditioned ourselves to only experience visual arts with our eyes, forgetting our body, our spacial awareness and rejecting the urge to explore texture, temperature, and weight. Instead we are left guessing through calculations and assumptions through our eyes. Last month at Kadist,…
Review by Danielle Schlunegger-Warner Growth/Decay was co-curated by Susannah Kelly and Neil Perry of Antler Gallery with Sara McCorriston and Jason Chen from Paradigm Gallery. Both Galleries were started by artists and enthusiasts that wanted to create a space for building community and showing the work of emerging artists. Growth/Decay was a great opportunity for artists to gain exposure in a new…
Duality A Solo Exhibition by Amabelle Aguiluz Branch Gallery 1031 W. Manchester Blvd #3 Inglewood, CA 90301Exhibition Dates | November 11th, 2017 – January 5th, 2018 Opening Reception Saturday, November 11th, 3pm -6pm Inglewood, CA – Branch Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Duality, featuring new work by Amabelle Aguiluz. Aguiluz is a local fiber artist incorporating…
