by Guest | Dec 10, 2009 | Blog
Guest Post by Caroline Picard This essay was first published in the Artists Run Chicago Digest published jointly by threewalls and Green Lantern Press in 2009. On the matter of public (1) space : or my apartment gallery is an arctic explorer “‘Oh, you have...
by Keeley Haftner | Sep 27, 2022 | Blog
Installing my booth for This Art Fair, Amsterdam, July 6 (2022), 25 weeks pregnant As a 37-week-pregnant artist, I’m down to the wire on a major life shift. There are many resources for new and existing (m)other artists, compiled over a dizzying variety of...
by Keeley Haftner | Apr 19, 2022 | Blog
When I was first exposed to contemporary art in the early aughts, it was easy for me to imagine that the work of Nam June Paik was a comment on consumerism and obsolescence, thinking (without checking dates) that all of his works employed obsolete technologies:...
by Keeley Haftner | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog
Artist’s using their own unwanted works to create new artworks is a nearly ubiquitous practice, one most commonly borne out by painters wanting to make good use of expensive frames and canvases, who often prefer “well-used” surfaces to raw ones. Making art from the...
by Paul Krainak | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog
Contemporary art exists under duress in rural America. The artworld still traffics in an obsolete nature vs. culture dichotomy, not through individual works that explore the hybridity of art language or identity, but in nature as synonymous with rural, (what...
