Jasmine Wilson Dennie reviews how the featured artists translate embodied experience into visual and linguistic forms in Unbound Narratives: Embodied Langauge at Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta.
Courtney McClellan reviews Virginia L. Montgomery’s tender affection for the luna moth in Blue Moon Cocoon at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Cierra Chenier reviews the ways Black beauty glimmers during oppressive times, and how alternative imagery and narratives thrive in defiance of degrading stereotypes in Origins of New Orleans Black Carnival Society: The Story of the Illinois Clubs at The Presbytère, New Orleans.
Amber Hickey reviews the line treaded between art and activism in The Body is a Drum, The Voice a Song, The Soul a Fire at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville.
Caelan Bailey reviews the latest exhibition from artist Ida Mae, highlighting her work’s transition from realism to collaged, geometric-influenced figuration at Luca Studio and Gallery, Fort Mill.
Lauren O’Neill-Butler reviews the intergenerational survey of Latinx artists found in Nuestro Vaivén (Our Sway) at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota.
Sommer Browning reviews Thương / Nhớ, a textile installation by Phượng-Duyên Hải Nguyễn that evokes memory, lived human experience, and the invisible forces that undergird the material world at Visible Records, Charlottesville.
Virginia Knight reviews how fiber artists interpret memory, nostalgia, and time through the perspective of place in Archiving Place at the Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville.
Madeleine Seidel reviews the symbolic feast for the dead in Tommy Kha: Leftovers at Higher Pictures, Brooklyn.
