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…
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…