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…
Four CAM exhibition artists among Tiffany Foundation Grant winners: Kahlil Robert Irving, Deana Lawson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Stephanie Syjuco
May 14, 2020 / Artsy
Art at Home: Automatic Drawing
May 8, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020 / Elephant
Essential Arts with Best Arts Online: Tim Youd Retypes The Tunnel
May 2, 2020 / Los Angeles Times
Art at Home: Code Quilting
May 1, 2020
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…