A. J. Fries/Artist

A. J. Fries/Artist

This ongoing series started with simple portraits of the toys I remembered from childhood, evoking the nostalgia and celebrating the simplistic brilliance of their design. Well-loved and enthusiastically played with, these portraits remind the viewer of the world they left behind when they grew up…

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Duda Penteado/Art + Activist = Artivist

Duda Penteado/Art + Activist = Artivist

I had a chance recently to visit the Karl and Helen Burger Gallery at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, where Brazilian-American artist and cultural activist Duda Penteado has a solo show running through to December 2. The exhibition is free and open to the public…

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Our Back Yard: Jules Gotay

Our Back Yard: Jules Gotay

SUBMARINE     The art of Jules Gotay   Language & Perception: Making the Connection   CARNIVAL Artist's statement: y paintings live on the border between language and the physical...

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The Days of the Untitled Mona

The Days of the Untitled Mona The transformation from the everyday person into a supreme being   DAY 7   The Mono Lisa: Politics of Sexuality By Pauline Joelle Panetta Edited by Dorothy Louise Zinn The object of analysis central to this essay is Cynthia...

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OUR BACK YARD: Na Chainkua  (Chainky) Reindorf/Artist Interview

OUR BACK YARD: Na Chainkua (Chainky) Reindorf/Artist Interview

My work is informed and inspired by the visual language of West African textiles and the custom of using these textiles as a means of communication. I am equally fascinated by our widespread relationship with textiles almost exclusively as objects with specific functions. The work I make aims to alter our experience with, and reliance on, these materials as utilitarian by rendering them as meaningful aesthetic objects to be encountered…

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Bill Wolak/The Joy of Collage

Bill Wolak/The Joy of Collage

Everything Moonlight Promised *** Artist Spotlight Making Connections Artist’s Statement he joy of collage is finding the endless connections between seemingly unrelated things. In some collages, the...

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