Emily Llamazales interviews Atlanta-based artist Shawn Campbell on his solo exhibition Act III: The Act of Acting at Alabama Contemporary Art Center in Mobile, putting oneself into the shoes of the cowboy, and the sustaining life of this archetype through manufactured art objects.
Daniel Fuller reviews the retrospective Structural Integrity on Hayward Oubre at the Birmingham Museum of Art, revealing the artist’s deep commitment to his craft and long-overdue acknowledgement of his interdisciplinary practice.
Whitney Washington reviews the playful juxtaposition of artist Erin Dailey’s compositions against Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture in Abstractions at Play at The Rosenbaum House, Florence.
Whitney Washington reviews Kathryn Jill Johnson’s expressionism in “Did Your Mother Work at the Castle?” at Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment, Huntsville.
Whitney Washington reflects on the monuments, sculptures, and tributes to Black history found at the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama through this Knock Knock feature.
Hannah Spears reviews the fragile archives and reclaimed lands found in Elizabeth M. Webb: a bearing tree is a witness; an oak is an echo at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, Auburn.
“I can build anything I want to build. I’m not a narrative painter. I don’t do the idea or the painting being the illustration of an idea, I don’t do that. It’s all about the materiality of the paint,” notes the late Jack Whitten. In February’s Art21 x Burnaway feature, we pay homage to the Alabama-born artist’s fifty-year career and ingenuity for invention.
Justin Chance ruminates on the dependencies of life, death, and survival in an exhibition of the work of artist Ronald Lockett at MARCH.
Burnaway editor Jasmine Amussen looks back at the abyss and heavenly firmament of rural Southern girlhood thru the music of Jewel and Ethel Cain.
