Clare Hu: The Haptic Optics of Overshot Weaving
Courtney McClellan examines reproduction, materiality, and legacy in New York-based, Georgia-born artist Clare Hu’s weavings.
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Examining a Stage Prop: The Devious Paintings of Junebug
Jackson Markovic examines cultural difference and depictions of archetypal Southern art in the 2005 film Junebug.
Akeylah Wellington: The Architecture of the Gap
Amina Daugherty covers Columbus-based, Miami-born Akeylah Wellington’s explorations of childhood memories, belonging, and “femme-ing” of politics in her woven artworks.
Gio Swaby: Love, Drawn Through The Eye Of A Needle
Natalie Willis Whylly situates diaspora-based textile artist Gio Swaby’s Black feminist portraiture in its original Bahamian context.
Speaking of the Sacred: Privilege Across Lucumí and Abakuá Spirituality in Cuban Art
Isabella Marie Garcia analyzes privilege and representation as they relate to depictions of Lucumí and Abakuá spirituality in Cuban art and within Miami museum exhibitions featuring the work of Belkis Ayón and Elliot & Erick Jiménez.
Reginald O’Neal’s Homage to Rainbow Village and The Work of Commissioner
Francess Archer Dunbar writes about Miami-based artist Reginald O’Neal’s homage to Rainbow Village, a now demolished housing development in Overtown, and the work of arts organization Commissioner.
Concrete Ties: Cuban Architecture, Memory, and the Afterlives of Solidarity
Looking at the work of Carlos Garaicoa, and the architectural exhibition Prefabricating Solidarity at Vanderbilt University’s Engine for Art, Democracy & Justice, Alexandra Martinez traces the lived history of postcolonial Cuban architecture.
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Daniel Fuller reviews Minnie Evans’ lush, mythical compositions on view in The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
See It Like a Native: House Galleries, Neighborhood Memory, and the Refusal of the White Box in Miami
Alexandra Martinez highlights See It Like a Native, a home-based exhibition in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Miami that models itself as an alternative infrastructure for artists.
