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Samuel Jablon
Samuel Jablon (www.samueljablon.com) is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Follow him on Twitter @SamuelJablon.
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“It Feels Sacrificial”: An Artist Repeatedly Imprints Her Body on Paper
Keltie Ferris discusses her exhibition M\A\R\C\H at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, for which she covered herself in oil and pigment and lay on top of large sheets of paper.
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Unlocking the Secret Logic of Symbols Through Repetition
“Repetition is a great tool to show difference, structure thought, and question authenticity. It’s a way for me to understand and study the logic behind things.”
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A Painter on the Entangled Relationship Between Figure and Frame
“I’m trying to make explicit the questions I ask myself: Can the figure bossily occupy the restraining space of the canvas?”
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William Pope.L on “Acting a Fool” and Alternative Futures
Chicago-based artist William Pope.L works in a variety of mediums, including painting, spoken word, installation, and performance, to challenge ideas of race and social stereotypes.
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Jessica Jackson Hutchins on Furniture, Found Ceramics, and the Stories of Our Stuff
Portland-based artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins works with paint, ceramics, and furniture to create pieces that are personal, conceptual, and formal.
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“My Own Career Bores Me”: Mark Flood on His Gallery Experiment
Mark Flood Resents was an artist-run gallery, showroom, exhibition space, hangout, and crash pad where nothing was for sale.
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The Interlaced Layers of Tamara Gonzales
The Brooklyn-based painter Tamara Gonzales works with spray paint and lace to create digital, optical, urban, and electric paintings.
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Wafaa Bilal’s War of Images
Wafaa Bilal asks us to bear witness, examine, and understand recent history. He places himself in his art to raise awareness and alter our perceptions.
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Painting and Poetry: In Conversation with Archie Rand
“As poets remain unpaid workers there is a perverse comfort in the façade of integrity, promised as resulting from that misfortune, which beckons me to trust their company. The idea of a strategy is still alien to poets.”
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The Horror of Socks
I met Aaron Johnson on Facebook. A couple months ago I saw his call for socks in my newsfeed, and I was curious why he wanted them. I messaged him and we started talking, and then arranged for me to drop off a large bag of particularly destroyed socks. When I delivered them, I saw the work. It was the last thing I expected. The images were gross, haunting, and beautiful.
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Gowanus Grunge
Gowanus is a vibrant neighborhood filled with artists in every cubbyhole, and last weekend the neighborhood opened its studios to the public.