GREG DRASLER
There is a moment, if memory serves, about halfway through Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou, where his camera is following Belmondo and Karina as they scarper across the cliffs overlooking some gorgeous Mediterranean inlet. They are on the lam; someone is dead, killed. I do not recall if they are being chased, probably. Tension mounts, (that […]
MATT FREEDMAN
Earth receive an honored guest, our lightening sketch artist is laid to rest. But hey, not so fast. When Matt Freedman died on October 24, 2020 he left behind a studio brimming with artifacts; seems the artist was not quite emptied of his poetry after all.* And that the first image of Freedman’s studio should […]
Dineke Blom
Dineke Blom, Dutch/Surinamese artist on her relationship with Dutch art from the 17th century “How does someone like you, with your background [NL/SUR] relate to Dutch paintings from the 17th century?” This question was asked to artist Dineke Blom during the Q&A which followed a lecture she gave at Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Detroit, […]
Carol Cole
In Carol Cole’s Studio Carol Cole enthusiastically advertises that her thinking about culture has been influenced by the work of D. W. Winnicott. Winnicott himself was an enormously influential psychoanalyst yet, importantly, before that he was a pediatrician. It was this close contact with children and especially infants, and their present or not so […]
Barbara Campbell Thomas
The devices of Modernism are relentless, they are everywhere, They just won’t go away. And if they are not really there we project them anyway. Barbara Campbell Thomas’ studio is near Greensboro, North Carolina (not so far, as it happens, from Black Mountain College, where many a modernist device was refined). The studio is in a separate […]
Elise Siegel
In Elise Siegel’s studio there is an atmosphere of not quite the present, perhaps even not quite this place, i.e. the studio in which one is standing. There is a quality of elsewhere with regard to both time and place, perhaps it is best described as a sense of yonder. When we visited Siegel had […]
Arthur Simms
Citizen Simms: Unpacking Arthur Simms’ Studio As Citizen Kane draws to a close –I am thinking of the penultimate scene, the scene before the “Rosebud scene”– the camera pulls back to allow the frame to become filled with the fillings of the vast storage at Kane’s Xanadu. Kane’s scavenging come hoarding slowly fills the frame […]
Jill Moser
As Jill Moser recounts it, one of her early exposures to contemporary art as a young adult was trekking into New York from the near suburbs to watch films at Anthology Film Archives. “Michael Snow, Brakhage, Maya Derren . . . Jonas Mekas was my hero.” It is, of course, a list of names that we now acknowledge as the cannon of American independent filmmaking. . . .
Noah Loesberg
Ornament, in and of itself, excites, it precipitates pleasure. Historically there are confounding relationships between the prohibition of icons, the presence of ornament and pleasure, both visual and otherwise. Christian iconoclasm, it is generally held, was inaugurated by Leo III somewhere in the latter years of the Eighth Century. Fealty to the law of the Decalogue […]
Matt Blackwell
A black bear hoists a flag in the midst of a beachfront procession. Aloft the flag exhibits a red asterisk as its emblem. Or another, different bear. This time serenaded by a young woman on her ukulele as the bear presents a gargantuan, yellow daisy bouquet. The serenading girl is seated upon an improvised seat […]
