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Allison Conner

Allison Conner's writing has appeared in Bitch, Full Stop, Triangle House Review, and elsewhere. She writes about movies and books at loosepleasures.substack.com

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Pope.L Invites Us to “Enter The Mess” When Things Fall Apart

by Allison Conner July 7, 2022July 15, 2022

Whether through expansion or confusion, Pope.L plays with the instability of time and shows how tapping into this instability can unlock creative shifts in thinking.

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A Cryptic Dance Between Understanding and Incomprehension

by Allison Conner April 20, 2022April 21, 2022

Rather than dismissing illegibility as a lack of clarity, Steffani Jemison embraces opacity as a strategy that provides other ways of practicing freedom and connection.

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Awakened by Matthew Thomas’s Spiritual Abstractions

by Allison Conner March 13, 2022March 11, 2022

By sharing his particular visual language, Thomas hopes to trigger our own connection to the divine.

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Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness

by Allison Conner March 7, 2022March 9, 2022

Jenkins’s videos do more than talk back to a racist screen.

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Memories of a Refugee Camp Inspire a Graphic Designer

by Allison Conner February 16, 2022February 16, 2022

Amir Berbić created artworks that draw on his childhood in a Danish refugee camp, memories that counter the hostile rhetoric surrounding refugees.

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Images of When the USSR Was an “Ally of Black Liberation Causes”

by Allison Conner February 15, 2022February 18, 2022

Most of the media was created to disseminate Communist principles, particularly anti-racism and anti-colonialism.

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The Whirling, Spiritual Abstraction of June Edmonds

by Allison Conner December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

Full Spectrum spans 40 years of the artist’s career and provides an efficient crash course for anyone new to Edmonds’s work.

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The Magnum Opus of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Influential Korean American Artist

by Allison Conner November 29, 2021December 2, 2021

Cha, who was murdered at 31 years old, explored the nuances of forced migration and language.

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Jennifer Packer Portrays Friends Through the Haze of Memory

by Allison Conner August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

Packer processes the horror of 2020 into elegiac mood studies that wrestle with exhaustion, fear, and longing.

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Kandis Williams’s Flourishing Black Feminist Vision

by Allison Conner July 28, 2021July 28, 2021

Williams, who just won the Made in LA award, readdresses harms wrought by capitalism, colonialism, and anti-Black rhetoric.

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The Stunning Scope of Carrie Mae Weems’s Vision

by Allison Conner July 25, 2021July 23, 2021

A new book offers a deep dive into Weems’s influential career.

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A 1970s Provocative Magazine That Fought Anti-Asian Sentiment

by Allison Conner June 20, 2021June 21, 2021

What started as a monthly paper in 1969 geared towards Asian American students at UCLA soon expanded to the greater Los Angeles community.

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