Grace Johnson: A Clean Still Life
“It reduces stress! Increases your metabolism! Detoxifies the body! Strengthens your immune system!” That alone was sort of interesting to me. Can…
Category: Art
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Alessandro Roma: Stone Cold Beauty
There’s the kind of synthetic, pre-fabricated “beauty” you could find on Instagram, nowadays, and then there’s unmitigated, elevated beauty.
Katya Grokhovsky: Feminist Art in the Trenches
I highlighted various tropes and stereotypes of femininity, domestic labor, beauty and female anger, ideas of remaining pleasant, whilst suffering in …
Ryan Schneider: Finding Clarity And Inspiration In The Desert
I’d like to make work on a more detailed and sensory level. I came to Joshua Tree to live more intentionally and be able to experience my life as it…
Chad Crews: The Decisive Moment
It took time to build up the confidence to take pictures of people. I started out timid, shooting from the hip and hiding the camera. I hated that fee…
Juan Fontanive: Birds, Butterflies, and Animated Machines
I tend to look at things in a more abstract way. Even when I am using more representational imagery, I am thinking in abstract terms. For example, but…
Jenny Morgan: Painting Body and Spirit
I felt that I was turning myself inside-out, turning white-to-black and vice versa held strong symbolic meaning psychologically. I started to dream ab…
Kiley Ames: Fragmenting the Figure
I like the contradiction of a really raw and simple material combined with these fragmented pieces. That’s how I see my life and people in general.
Alicia Gibson: Interpreting Memories Through Kitsch, Satire and Paint
It comes from a dark place, but when I’m making it, it’s a way for me to process. I’m laughing as I’m making it, but I’m being half-serious …
Go! Push Pops: Evolution of a Radical Feminist Art Collective
We know that women’s bodies are very marketable. There is an innate power in women’s bodies, which has been distorted.