Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Kahlil Robert Irving
Jun 4, 2020
The following interview took place prior to the protests over the killing of George Floyd.
What is different now? Are not the racial divisions within our society just more deeply outlined than before? How are attitudes toward stay-at-home mandates based on privilege? Isn’t the expectation of…
Derek Fordjour honors disenfranchised communities in his vibrant, layered work
Jun 4, 2020 / Artsy
Kahlil Robert Irving and Richard Munaba: Safetyfirst&Fantasies_BLOCKCHAIN
Jun 1, 2020 / Wesleyan University Center for the Arts
Stories of Resistance artist Guadalupe Maravilla is centering mutual aid and indigenous medicinal practices
Jun 1, 2020 / Hyperallergic
Art at Home: Collaging the Self
May 29, 2020
Growing up, Mickalene Thomas was conscious of the lack of depictions of black people in art history and even in the media of her time. As a result, she drew particular inspiration from black celebrities such as singer/actress Eartha Kitt and black characters such as Whoopi Goldberg’s Celie in…
Ebony G. Patterson: The interactivity of visual appeal
May 19, 2020 / Chicago Gallery News
Why Katherine Bernhardt’s freewheeling paintings attract collectors of all kinds
May 19, 2020 / Artsy
Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Bethany Collins
May 14, 2020
Bethany Collins moved from one part of Chicago to another in March. “Moving day during a pandemic is definitely worse,” she tells me. But her new neighborhood offers a more walkable part of the city and a daily walk has become part of the quarantine regimen. Collins and I laugh…