Today we’d like to introduce you to Julia Couzens. Julia, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist. I was born and raised in Auburn, California — at the time a farm and ranching community in the Sierra foothills. My mother was […]
Two New Works Accessioned into 21c Museum Collection as part of Moving Image Award COMPANY / Published 3.6.2017 in MUSEUM As part of the annual Moving Image Acquisition Award, presented in New York on February 27, two new works have been accessioned into the 21c Museum Collection: Jefferson Pinder’s video, Afro-Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise) and Claudia […]
Listen to Full Service Radio Interview with Ramekon O’Arwisters in Washington, DC, Episode 43 TRANSFORMER ARTIST TALK: Ramekon O’Arwisters Jun 22, 2018
Weston Teruya is a visual artist and founding member of Related Tactics, a collective of artists, writers, curators, and educators of color creating projects and opportunities at the intersection of race and culture. Through a partnership with the online arts criticism platform Daily Serving- Art Practical, Weston launched (un)making, a podcast with artists, arts administrators, […]
Updated / Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:00 Artist Helen O’Leary at IMMA In 2016 Hennessy Ireland formed a partnership with IMMA to help fund the purchase of important works by Irish and Irish based artists – to date, the Hennessy Art Fund has enabled IMMA to acquire 12 new works by 12 major artists (6 […]
May 2018 Tony Marsh, based in Long Beach CA, is a contemporary ceramic artist. He was recently awarded the United States Artist Award for his achievements within the field of craft and contemporary ceramics. He is a professor and Program Chair of ceramics at California State University in Long Beach and is on the board […]
By: Marcus Civin In her Baltimore home studio, Victoria Jang points out two wet ovoid forms, clay covered in plastic, works-in-progress she is turning on a Lazy Susan as she builds them up in slabs. The thirty-one-year-old artist recalls how her Korean-American mother prepared her school lunch, beautifully and energetically failing at making the typically slapped-together American-style […]
East and West converge in different ways in the work of Miya Ando and Jiha Moon, two Asia-rooted female artists who have shows in adjacent galleries at the American University Museum. While Moon’s art includes some conspicuous American ingredients, Ando’s work might seem to be purely Asian. “Most Everyone’s Mad Here,” a 2015 work by […]
Korean-Born, Atlanta-Based Artist Mixes Familiar with Foreign in Asian-Western Fusion By Mackenzie Weinger April 30, 2018 A kaleidoscope of colors, pop culture references and traditional Asian art techniques collide in “Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here,” an exhibition suffused with both satirical whimsy and contemporary relevance. The show, at the American University Museum, […]
Artist Helen O’Leary with some of her work Esther Hayden April 28 2018 12:00 AM A Kilrane woman has won a prestigious visual arts prize. Helen O’Leary, a native of Kilrane, has been named as a winner of the 2018-2019 Rome Prize in the visual arts category by the American Academy in Rome. She is […]