“We want to turn this country back to [the way it was in] 1954.” Paul Weyrich, Co-Founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Christian Right’s Moral Majority, c. 1982 “I have swallowed a monstrous dose of poison…the violence of the venom twists my limbs, deforms…prostrates me, I die of thirst, I suffocate, and cannot scream. It is hell, eternal punishment.” […]
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“If the world is turned upside down, the truth will become a lie.” – Guy Debord, 1967 “The image always gets the last word.” – Roland Barthes, c. 1975 “DEGENERATE! Hitler’s War on Modern Art” explores the ways in which Der Fuhrer’s Nazi party used modern art as a vehicle to sway public opinion, and the subsequent assault on artists […]
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“Globalization begins at home.” – Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, 1994 For 60 years academics across disciplines have been exploring culture and histories through the lenses of sex, gender, race, class, nationality, and sexual orientation. In the 1990s, post-colonial studies emerged; theorists such as Homi K. Bhabha and writers like the Salman Rushdie show the ways in which […]
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Aaron Williams’ “Escaping Aawful Land” is a multimedia exhibition made in collaboration with Toby Griffits, Tony Yanick, Marco Kazandejeiff, Eleanor Jergens, and Wayne Smith III, on view in Toby’s Vault at SPACES through March 1. Williams’ alias is Aawful—a moniker encompassing that which is both awe-inspiring and horrible—Aaron. Williams describes it as a contranym, a word that references both the […]
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Anticipatory / Después is an assemblage of multimedia works that visualizes the anticipatory grief and emotional labor involved in caregiving, as well as the mystery of the life process that is death. Brianna L. Hernández transforms the perfunctory tasks and ephemera of selfless and typically gendered (feminine) labor of caregiving into a sublime multimedia installation that captures the sacredness of […]
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Long before the Black Girl Magic movement of recent years, community educator and gender studies scholar bell hooks called for loving blackness as a form of political resistance. In 1992, her now famous collection of essays, Black Looks was published with goal of “transforming our ways of looking and being, and thus creat[ing] the conditions necessary for [Black people] to move […]
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In their artist statement, Bernadette Glorioso and Dott Schneider explain Tethered as “a conversation about breaking free from restrictions and expectations,” and as collaboration between two artists who met earlier this year while installing work in a group exhibition. The new show of paintings–done in oil or mixed media on canvas, in varying square or rectangular dimensions–is not experimental in […]
Read moreFaysal Altunbozar’s The gardens of Adonis are cultivated for the sake of flowers, not fruit (on view at SPACES Oracle Gallery, August 25 – October 20, 2023) is an impeccably-installed body of sculpture that re-shape the gallery in which it is hung. The visual aesthetic is sterile, clean, and manufactured, yet the sound component connects each viewer’s body, through sound and vibration […]
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Faysal Altunbozar’s The gardens of Adonis are cultivated for the sake of flowers, not fruit (on view at SPACES Oracle Gallery, August 25 – October 20, 2023) is an impeccably-installed body of sculpture that re-shape the gallery in which it is hung. The visual aesthetic is sterile, clean, and manufactured, yet the sound component connects each viewer’s body, through sound […]
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To be loving we willingly hear each other’s truth and, most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.” ― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions. Ada Pinkston’s Searching for Mother Tongues, on view at SPACES through October 30, is a multi-media installation in […]
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