Artist Profile: Angela Washko

Artist Profile: Angela Washko

Angela Washko has been busy. Between working on ambitious new media projects, performances, residencies, curating exhibitions, and organizing events – all while forwarding a feminist agenda – she has an energy that seems hard to quell. And, good thing. Confronting...
An Unstable Projection: James Turrell’s Pleiades

An Unstable Projection: James Turrell’s Pleiades

I was reading about James Turrell’s epic series of museum shows in The New York Times recently and recalled a moment of my own recollection of his work. It’s simple enough: I follow The Mattress Factory on Twitter. On November 26th, they tweeted an image...
Chicago Art in Pictures: SAIC Fashion 2013

Chicago Art in Pictures: SAIC Fashion 2013

A graphic, editorial overview of art, artists, and visual art events, found in and around Chicago over the course of the preceding month. All artwork copyright original artists; all photography copyright Paul Germanos. On Friday, May 3, 2013, within a...
Ox-Bow? Its like adult Hogwarts for artists.

Ox-Bow? Its like adult Hogwarts for artists.

Christian Kuras and I have been busily preparing for a class we should have called “The Decent into Awesome.” A class that brings together Avital Ronell, Silkscreens, and Juggalos/Celine Dion, publishing as form, and the new sincerity manifesto, so wrong...