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 […]
By Leah Ollman April 25, 2018 Visitors to the recent Scripps College Ceramic Annual consider “The Guardian,” a 2015 piece of stoneware, underglaze, glaze, resin and milk paint by Kyungmin Park. The longtime event is now joined by two new ceramics biennials, signaling a resurgence for the medium. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) […]
APRIL 24, 2018 BY ETTY YANIV Helen O’Leary, installation view of Home is a foreign country, 2018, photo courtesy of Lesley Heller by Eva O’Leary Helen O’Leary‘s sculptural paintings are delicate and rough, subtle and raw, literal and metaphoric – they embrace and prick the viewer at the same time. Her current exhibition “Home is a foreign […]
Helen O’Leary (BFA 1988, MFA 1989) Image courtesy of Penn State University. On April 12, Helen O’Leary (BFA 1988, MFA 1989) received the American Academy Rome Prize in Visual Arts for 2018–19. The Rome Prize winners are selected annually by independent juries of distinguished artists and scholars through a national competition. O’Leary is one of 29 winners for the […]