There is a particular kind of attention that arrives when an artist chooses to read aloud. The page lifts from the lap, the printed word submits to breath, and…
A wooden surface, a steel bench, a kitchen table pushed against a studio wall — these supports sit quietly in the background of almost every creative life. For…
The figure of the starving artist has been doing cultural work for centuries, usually as a romantic justification for poverty rather than an honest accounting…
Alexandra Mawimbi's two-dimensional works sit in a peculiar tension. They are flat, bounded by the rectangle of paper or canvas, yet they behave as if…
Corners are everywhere and nowhere. They belong to the background of architecture, a quiet geometry that holds walls apart and rooms together, yet they rarely…
For most of the history of Western painting, the ceiling was the place where artists were granted their most extravagant permissions. The walls held portraits,…
A floor piece changes the terms of looking. Rather than presenting an artwork at eye level, safely separated from the body by a wall or plinth, it occupies the…
For centuries the glass vitrine has stood between the viewer and the thing viewed, a quiet negotiator of intimacy and distance. In contemporary practice, this…
A performance begins when a body steps into a space and ends when it leaves. Between those two points lives an artwork that cannot be held in a vitrine,…