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The Most Public of Private Spaces
Ahmed Mater. Desert of Pharan, 2008-2015. C-print. Courtesy of the artist. I find it interesting to think about the word public in the context of Mecca—the subject of my most recent body of work. The...
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Objective Truth vs. Subjective Perception
Natalia Almada. El Velador, 2011. Production still of documentary feature film; 72 minutes. Courtesy of the artist. © Natalia Almada. In December 2009 while I was shooting my film, El Velador, at a...
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A Safe Place
Jonathan Calm. Lorraine Motel I, 2017. Silver gelatin; dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and LMAK Projects, New York. © Jonathan Calm. I took these two photographs at one of the landmark...
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Why Wishes Matter
Amanda Long. Wishing Well, 2016. Interactive video sculpture installed at site of the original well in the back yard of the farmhouse. Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, New York. © Amanda Long. Wishes are...
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The Practice of Walking: Somewhere Near Zabar’s
W 188th Street, Manhattan, 2017. Image credits: Pascal Troemel. I’m sick as a dog at noon on a Sunday. Though I haven’t ventured far from the bed, walking is still on my mind. Earlier this month, on...
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Touch/Don’t Touch
Gabrielle Civil during a performance. Photo: Michael J. Seidlinger. Courtesy of the artist. I’m on my knees, a plump, Black woman in black from head to toe, my blue-black lipstick almost kissing the...
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Exposing the Self Through Artmaking
Tino Rodriguez. Invocation, 2008. Oil on wood, 17″ x 19″. Courtesy of the artist. My work emerges from a need to express and question who I am. Using myself as the subject of my work both questions and...
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On Exposure
Matthew Morrocco. Paul, 2015. Inkjet Print, 30″ x 24″. Courtesy of the artist. In the world of contemporary art, we are inundated by images. From art made to be photographed and shared, to Internet...
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Queer Secrets Exposed
Photo of Vera Rubin. Courtesy of the artist. A beautiful photograph conveys what the artist sees as its rightful and best composition. A photo, said to express a thousand words, has millions of...
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Things That Look Like Me
Vinsantos. SHE LIVES ALONE, detail, 2016. Polymer clay, cosmetics, quartz crystal, vintage and antique jewelry and accessories, 16″ x 46″. Courtesy of the artist. I’ve always surrounded myself with...
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Tension To Complete
1+1=1At Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, Oregon. The work rests in a corner and bends with viewer movement. Perception in relation to time is what connects my early work, focused on the...
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It Is, It Isn’t
Iké Udé. “VIBE,” Cover Girl series, 1994. Courtesy of the artist. Often, the idea of illusion is present in the conceptualization or realization of my work. But the invitation by Jorge Daniel Veneciano...
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