Art at Home: Automatic Drawing
May 8
Upon first glance, British-born artist Nicola Tyson’s portraits may call to mind words like ‘ghoulish’ and ‘child-like.’ While viewers may be able to discern a human figure, the bodies and features are so distorted that it’s impossible to determine what the subjects look like. This is because Tyson…
Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Paul Mpagi Sepuya
May 8
Even though CAM has been closed since March, a conversation with Paul Mpagi Sepuya makes me think even more about exhibitions without an audience. Sepuya’s summer survey in St. Louis is now documented in a gorgeous monograph, a selection from thirteen years of the artist’s photographic explorations within…
Get to know artists intimately with these new monographs: Paul Mpagi Sepuya
May 5 / Elephant
Essential Arts with Best Arts Online: Tim Youd Retypes The Tunnel
May 2 / Los Angeles Times
Art at Home: Code Quilting
May 1
Sanford Biggers’s work has long focused on African and African American material culture and history. Biggers’s interest in quilting is rooted in the rich tradition of African American quilting, especially those produced by the women of Gee’s Bend—a small, isolated Black community in Alabama. Although each quilter has…
Art at Home: Tim Youd Retypes The Tunnel
May 1 / LA Weekly
LA artist plans to connect with St. Louis novelist William Gass—by typing in the garage
Apr 30 / St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Artist Notes from a Pandemic: Tim Youd
Apr 28
Tim Youd knows what he’ll be doing for the next month of COVID. “For me,” he says from his Los Angeles home, “it’s a compulsion to make art, and I’m very grateful to have a chance to devote myself to my compulsion—re-typing one novel for a month.”