In these tenuous times, making art has become an altogether strange activity. I’m making small silk sculptures around rocks and sticks, as well as mixed media paintings/drawings, all largely influenced by the shores of Lake Erie: its geological formations, its flora and fauna, its water and light. These natural elements seem to share with our contemporary moment the quality of […]
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Interviews coordinated by Rebecca Cross SHAWN INTERVIEWS JANICE SHAWN POWELL: Talk about these newest works. JANICE LESSMAN-MOSS: I tend to work in pairs by putting enough warp on the loom at one time for two pieces. The first will be these colors, and the second will have similar color relationships, with different hues. SP: They’re both striking. JLM: Then I […]
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RIAN INTERVIEWS EVA RIAN BROWN-ORSO: I love your sculpture because it gives me this visceral reaction. The Immortal Peaches are luscious creatures, candy-like…they’re like poisonous mushrooms or frogs. You want to touch them and put them in your mouth, but you know they’re dangerous. EVA KWONG: The fact that you want to touch it is what drew me to working […]
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ARTIST / ARTIST DANA OLDFATHER AND STEPHEN YUSKO Dialog coordinated by Rebecca Cross Dana Interviews Stephen SY: I made these boxes after the election and this was my political take, so this is red for the Republican Party and spells “empty” (MT) in Morse code; the blue one spells “resist.” DO: Do you have a special link to Morse code? […]
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coordinated by Rebecca Cross Amy Casey interviews Kristen Cliffel Amy Casey: There are so many moving parts in making ceramics… Kristen Cliffel: You see how trapped I am by the scale of the work. I’ve [decided] to make everything smaller for the next six months…limiting scale to be a little more free. The grass piece here? This is the intended […]
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Orso and Cross met in The Studio, Gallery and Lyceum in downtown Oberlin, where Claudio’s prints and ceramic sculptures are currently on exhibit. RC: In pieces from your time in Wyoming, the direction changes from politics to so much about joy, community and how you love place. We’re all as politically concerned as ever, but what do you think? CO: […]
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I work in silk sculpture, and am creating a series of “shields” for the torso, pelvis and face. My work has typically communicated ideas and metaphors that are personal or conceptual; this series is also, decidedly political. As a woman and artist, I feel besieged by the political decisions that are being made currently in our nation, by an elite […]
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