Truth be told, I would have loved to sit down with Rebecca Reeves in person to pick her brain about her art work, which begs to be further investigated. However, as Bucks County and San Francisco are separated by a vast 2,900 miles, we had to settle for a digital exchange. My initial investigations of…
Lauren’s work has built a bridge between science and art in the way that reminds us how enchanting the human anatomy is, even post mortem. Her series of sculptures, paintings and drawings are carefully determined through research, grazing upon the surface of potential memories and stories. She teaches art and anatomy at Stanford University while…
You have a BA in Jewellery Design but shifted into web development shortly thereafter. What led you to making the choice to shift gears and complete a web development immersive? When I chose jewellery design as a subject to study, I was 16 and did not know a lot about what the world has to…
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…
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….
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…
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…
How would you describe your subject matter or the content of your art practice? My work finds its origin in historic, scientific and/or anatomic sources ranging from the woodcuts by Andreas Vesalius to CT-scans, MRI-scans, autopsy images and the plastinations by Gunther von Hagens. As in medical practice, I dissect the body layer by layer….
