GOD COMPLEX
Elizabeth Englander Transforms Everyday Objects Into the Divine
December 9, 2021
The 33-year-old sculptor started out as a painter in college, and the romantic impulse of that first practice now bleeds into her vivid, symbol-laden sculpture.
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A Meditation on Manhattan in the Work of Torey Thornton
November 23, 2020
The Big Rotten Apple plays a critical, pronounced role in the work of the 30-year-old artist, whose bold, auto-fictive practice traverses mediums and modalities.
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Heidi Bivens and Raffaella Hanley on Making Euphoria the First Shoppable Show
November 11, 2020
The costume designer behind the hit HBO show talks to the founder of Lou Dallas about her new collection, the death of mall culture, and what’s in store for season two.
John Edmonds’s Sensual, Statuesque Portraiture
June 6, 2019
The New York photographer turns toward the camera for an intimate series of black male resilience.
Valerie Keane blurs the lines between art and physical environment
December 8, 2017
Taking inspiration from literature, opera, and film, the artist brings static space to life.
Maggie Lee is the multimedia artist working from the confines of her bedroom
December 8, 2017
The 30-year-old New Yorker has already been featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art and Lomex gallery.
Toyin Ojih Odutola defies conventional portrayals of black bodies
December 8, 2017
The artist is currently exhibiting 17 pastel and charcoal drawings at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art.
Painting portraits of black men using the female gaze
August 11, 2017
Artist Jordan Casteel pushes against the generalizations of black men as aggressors with tender contradictions