Clare Szydlowski is an Oakland-based printmaker and art educator. She received her BA from UC Santa Cruz in 2006 and her MFA from San Francisco State University in 2009. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the Bay Area including Kala Art Institute, The Lab, Interface Gallery, and The Compound Gallery. Where did you grow up? How did…
Bonnie Atkinson, better known by her alias, Bonnie Guillotine is a Bay Area native classically trained in printmaking. Her bold style and quirky, morbid themes naturally lead her to interest in tattooing. She is currently apprenticing at Lampblack tattoo, a new shop in San Francisco’s Mission district. We met at her apartment so I could…
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…
Venison Magazine finally has it’s own Instagram!!! For the last two year all of us behind the scenes: found and searched for artists through our own instagram accounts. (@amberimrie, @adrimakesart, @zishery) Now, we have one hub @ven.mag , for finding and featuring artists. This long over due move has led us to an exciting new “competition/ application”-…
