Up Close and Wearable: Tides

Tides is a series of wearable garments by Amabelle Aguiluz, whose work we’ve been following since the beginning of the year. ​Her influences very much derive from bodies of water and the organisms that live in them. From the first time I saw her work at Art Share LA to her collaborative residency with Szalt Dance Co and their…

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Studio Visit with Matt Hall

I had found out about Matt Hall’s work, like so many other artists I have found recently, through Instagram. I loved the way he was combining traditional skeletal articulation and conceptual ideas.  Pouring over the sculptures and cabinets on his website, I saw little hints of Joseph Cornell, Mark Dion, and a sort of Mellvinian…

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How to Give a Shit No 6

SUBJECT: Corporate Art Opportunity ​Dear Idiot Artist, Would you like to put a whole bunch of your art in a corporate lobby for the people who work there to admire/ignore for a full year? If so, we’ll pay you 1,000 to 2,000 dollars per year–that’s PER YEAR–depending on the size of the lobby. But wait,…

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Josh Hagler

I met American artist, Joshua Hagler, at the opening of his solo show The Adopted at Jaus earlier this year. With extensive research, he’s using various mediums to explore the role of religion. The variety of figures, shapes and endless texture against large scale canvases, begs us to ask  the same questions he poses about religion, its history and our relationship…

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Angela Gram

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…

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Anya Weitzman

Anya Weitzman and I met up over coffee and donuts in Pittsburgh, during her moving week this past April.  Anya is a sculptor, jewelry designer, metalsmith, and founder of Mod Evil Studio.  Influenced by anthropology and gender studies, Anya creates pieces that give the wearer a deep sense of their own power, following her interest in…

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