Posts tagged Art Review
Interview with Jennifer Crescuillo

I first found glass while I was an undergrad at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.  I was originally in the sculpture department and glass was right next door across the courtyard and it was warm, and had fun music blaring, and loud funny people and I got totally sucked in.  All us Glassies are the same, like moths to the flame, literally.  

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Interview with Anna Buckner

I grew up in Greensboro, NC. My parents met in grad school at UNCG - my dad was studying painting and my mom studied dance. Back then, pre-Anna days, my mom would sometimes model for my dad’s life drawing classes so we had all of these nude paintings of my mom around the house growing up. In reality, it was probably 2 or 3 paintings, but it felt like our house was covered in them. I have this distinct memory of my sister and I frantically running around the house taking them down and hiding them in a closet before one of her birthday parties.

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Interview with Wayne Marcelli

I went to an arts magnet school for 11th and 12th grade which was the first time I’d ever really painted. Before that it was all violent comics and drawing in textbooks. Painting felt right so I took a bunch of portrait and figure painting classes in undergrad at Coastal Carolina University (2010). It took a few years to realize I actually hated painting representationally (just use a camera) so everything from grad school onward (University of North Carolina 2017) has been real pared down and muted (and angsty).

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Jaime Bull: Rhinestone Cowgirls [Review]

Jaime Bull’s installation “Rhinestone Cowgirls” is on view at Whitespec in Atlanta, GA until March 23. Her tough yet wonky procession of feminine figures in glimmering raiment gives a sense of timelessness to an inner feminine story. It is a romantic, hilarious, sincere look into the past and future at once.

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