Poetic and subtle, her work invites viewers to contemplate each material as it changes, or stays the same, over time.
Annabel Keenan
Annabel Keenan is a writer based in New York. She specializes in contemporary art and sustainability. Her work has been published in The Art Newspaper and Artillery Magazine among others.
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Secrets of a Pennsylvania Dutch Interior
Like a salacious game of eye-spy, Anne Buckwalter’s paintings invite viewers to share in a semi-secret rendezvous.
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Ecology From the Perspective of the Marginalized
Humane Ecology at the Clark Art Institute asks viewers to consider different interpretations of nature, including those of people who have been marginalized, silenced, and erased.
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How an Artist Can Embody Human Rights
With her solo show at the Watermill Center, Regina José Galindo considers how a universal object — the body — can speak to issues of human rights.
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Darrel Ellis’s Legacy of Love and Loss
As he grappled with anxieties related to his family, sexuality, and fear of AIDS — to which he would succumb at the age of 33 — Ellis meticulously documented his life.
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LA Artist’s Floating Painting Studio Removed by Local Officials
Sterling Wells’s makeshift studio-raft was dragged out of the water and damaged after online reports described it as a possible unhoused encampment.
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An Artist’s Homage to Mundane and Macabre New York
Talia Levitt homes in on the everyday people, animals, and urban infrastructure that are emblematic of New York, but not often celebrated.
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Maia Ruth Lee Transforms the Materials of Migration
The artist draws inspiration from her own migration to consider both the confinement and freedom associated with a life in motion.
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Reclaiming the Story of Free Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw
For too long, the New York potter was mistakenly identified as White and of French descent.
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Minerva Cuevas Strikes the Gods of Environmental Destruction
In taking aim at contemporary corporations, especially oil companies, Cuevas draws a connection between colonization, trade, and the devastation of the natural world.
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Susan Philipsz Evokes the Holocaust Through Absence
Philipsz’s haunting sound and video artworks serve as a poignant witness to the lives and artistry of victims of the Holocaust.
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Whose Mother Is Nature Anyway?
Contemporary society in the United States normalizes the idea of the exhausted mother, so why wouldn’t mother nature be equally exhausted?
