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Max Levin—You were born during a solar eclipse on Wabanaki territory, in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and have lived most of your life here in Quebec. The Children Have To Hear Another Story — Alanis ...
William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1973–76), Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–78), and studied mime and ...
Synthesizing the traditional mediums of painting and sculpture with new technologies like augmented and virtual reality, Rachel Rossin fluidly blurs the digital and physical, exploring the emotional ...
Stephanie Syjuco makes research-driven photographs, sculptures, and installations that explore the tension between the authentic and the counterfeit and challenge deep-seated assumptions about history ...
From their Brooklyn studio, photographer Elle Pérez ruminates on power of the photograph to capture the moments that words can't describe.
With a process that takes her from the streets of Harlem to her studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn, artist Jordan Casteel paints vibrant large scale portraits, making visible the often unrepresented humanity ...
Avery Singer was born in 1987 in New York, where she continues to live and work. Painting almost exclusively in tones of black and white, Singer’s canvases teeter between abstraction and figuration.
An artist’s identity and experiences implicitly inform, and in some cases even drive, the work they create. In capturing the contemporary Black American experience through their work and ...
Following the tradition of American realists like Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper, Amy Sherald uses her paintings to tell stories about America. Searching for models, settings, and scenarios that would ...