May / June 2015 Issue
“Family”
Artist Jamian Juliano-Villani in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2015. Production still from the ART21 "New York Close Up" film "Jamian Juliano-Villani's Painting Compulsion". © ART21, Inc. 2015.

Art21 New York Close Up

Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Painting Compulsion

by Nick Ravich | Jul 1, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Painting Compulsion

by Nick Ravich | Jul 1, 2015

Filmed in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani uses a digital projector to create surreal paintings and discusses the graphic source material that inspires her.

The Chosen Ones

by Alicia Eler | Jun 17, 2015

The Chosen Ones

by Alicia Eler | Jun 17, 2015

We are born with family, and we find our chosen family. Often whom we select overshadows our biology. Not always, but sometimes. It’s a balance. Peregrine Honig and Arrington de Dionyso …

Lise Haller Baggesen: On the Mother-Shaped Hole in Contemporary Art

by Julie Niemi | Jun 10, 2015

Lise Haller Baggesen: On the Mother-Shaped Hole in Contemporary Art

by Julie Niemi | Jun 10, 2015

I recently visited my former home, Chicago, to cohost a public program that I organize with fellow founding editors of Los Angeles–based print magazine VIA Publication. “I Like Your Work” …

Itinerant Domestic

by Danny Orendorff | Jun 3, 2015

Itinerant Domestic

by Danny Orendorff | Jun 3, 2015

I first encountered the engrossing work of the multimedia artist Rashawn Griffin (b. 1980) in a 2014 group exhibition, The Center is a Moving Target, at Kemper at the Crossroads, …

On Returning Home and Works in Progress: A Conversation with Bukola Koiki

by Brannon Rockwell-Charland | May 27, 2015

On Returning Home and Works in Progress: A Conversation with Bukola Koiki

by Brannon Rockwell-Charland | May 27, 2015

I first learned about Bukola Koiki’s art through Facebook. She posted an essay about her work in the group named “BCC: BrownHall Community,” a networking forum for Black artists in …

Behind Voids and Dissonance: Experimental Music of Fluxus and the Source Family

by Casey Winkleman | May 20, 2015

Behind Voids and Dissonance: Experimental Music of Fluxus and the Source Family

by Casey Winkleman | May 20, 2015

“Purge the world of bourgeois sickness, ‘intellectual,’ professional and commercialized culture; Purge the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art, abstract art, illusionistic art—PURGE THE WORLD OF ‘EUROPANISM!’” [1]. Written with …

Personal Digital Networks

by Sara Schnadt & Kristy Baltezore | May 13, 2015

Personal Digital Networks

by Sara Schnadt & Kristy Baltezore | May 13, 2015

Sara Schnadt and Kristy Baltezore met three years ago at the kitchen table of their mutual friend and fellow new-media artist Rob Ray, who is like a chosen family member. …

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | May 6, 2015

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | May 6, 2015

One’s experience of family can be joyous, painful, bizarre, revelatory, and intimate. To describe it with any single word wouldn’t do it justice. Like a parade, it’s a cacophony of …

Subverting Mass Media: The Collection of the Girls of the Internet Museum Accentuates Sincerity

by Alexis Avedisian | May 6, 2015

Subverting Mass Media: The Collection of the Girls of the Internet Museum Accentuates Sincerity

by Alexis Avedisian | May 6, 2015

Gaby Cepeda, an independent curator based in Lima, Peru, founded the Girls of the Internet Museum as a way to archive Internet works made by an international group of women. Controlled …

Mom in the Mirror

by Roni Ginach | May 6, 2015

Mom in the Mirror

by Roni Ginach | May 6, 2015

In December 2013, I received a master’s degree in psychoanalysis at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York, the same institute where my mother trained, starting in the …