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…
Jennifer Chen-Su Huang As many of you may know, Venison Magazine was established by an art collective known as Weeknight Rodeo, which was comprised of UC Berkeley graduates which Jennifer was invited to be part of. The collective evolved into Venison Magazine, allowing her to continue contributing to conversations on contemporary art, but this time…
A Narrow Passage Noysky Projects 6727 ⅞ Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028 Exhibition Dates | Oct 14th – Nov 12th, 2017 Closing Reception | Sunday, Nov 12th, 3-6pm Noysky Projects is tucked away between souvenir shops in the heart of Hollywood, Los Angeles. As you approach the building, you’re invited to walk down a corridor of…
Vieno James‘s body of work, Glory, opened at Offsite Gallery inside the World Trade Center in Norfolk, VA last week. His work is a mixed media study of history that compels me to dive deeper into those history books, and ask, what kind of history are we creating right now? I was so happy to be able to talk to Vieno…
Water Stories MorYork Gallery, Highland Park, CA Performances through May 14, 2016 Tickets MorYork Gallery is a cabinet of curiosities hidden away in Highland Park CA. Run by Clare Graham, an artist himself, he opened the doors to his studio to create an artist-in-residence program. The environment is cozy and inviting; I wasn’t prepared for what was…
I was in fifth grade when I got my first period. I came home from school, cracked open my textbook, grabbed chips from the pantry, and started simultaneously munching and working on problems #8-24, even only. As my mechanical pencil scratched away, my focus was interrupted by a quiet warm moistness in between my legs….
Kadist – San Francisco CA Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 11, 6-9pm Dates: May 11 – June 25, 2016 Gallery hours: Wednesdays – Saturdays 2-7pm, or by appointment Review by Amber Imrie-Situnayake On Wednesday, May 11th, I visited the opening of Extrastellar Evaluations. All the work centered around the paranormal belief in Lemurians. Yin-Ju Chen approaches this…
Part of establishing an event like art camp is to discuss ideas from all perspectives. So if you’re wondering what grabs our attention when we’re looking through submissions or scouting, you’re in the right place. An artist statement is pretty debatable these days. There are so many channels to voice various works on, so why…
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,…
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”-…
