The Animal Spirit of Robert Rivers
Robert Rivers and his wife, Peggy, have a place in Maitland that looks pretty suburban. The neighborhood is settled down, and Rivers’ home is busy being lived in. A seasonal flag marks the front door, completing their holiday decorations. No permit boxes decorate front yards, Read More …
Write Fast, Edit Slow
Racquel Henry learned to read when she was three. Soon after, she would start to write her own stories on construction paper. “I always was, I suppose, a writer,” she recalls. These days, between teaching college courses, publishing Black Fox Literary Magazine, freelance editing, and Read More …
Rima Jabbur: The Importance of Portraiture
Portrait painting is one of the oldest forms of the medium. During the Renaissance, portrait painting became the standard requirement for all painters. When looking back through history, we view the elite exclusively through the gaze of the painter. Without these skilled artists, we would Read More …
Artist Spotlight: Brian Phillips- Apocalyptic Observations
Brian Phillips is a Florida-based painter, sculptor, designer, and multimedia artist. His paintings, sculptures, drawings, videos, and collages are dramatic and visually striking in their depictions of nature, destruction, and preservation. Phillips is a self-taught artist who has participated in numerous exhibitions, making name for Read More …
Together We Marched
Photos by Wayne Grant My sister designed her sandwich board beautifully, and from what I could tell, she had it printed professionally. She was a graphic designer in her previous life, before running away to join the circus as a professor and fine artist in Read More …
February Publisher’s Note
As we dove into creating and curating this issue of ARTBORNE, we were conscious of the intense political climate in our country. In this edition, we feature Maxwell Hartley, our cover artist, as a “visitor from a parallel universe…charged with the task of delivering humankind Read More …
Julian Chambliss brings AfroFantastic to Rollins
AfroFantastic: Black Imagination and Agency in the American Experience is up now at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum on Rollins College campus. Professor Julian Chambliss, Ph.D curated the show in conjunction with students from his AfroFantastic class. Chambliss and I got the chance to sit Read More …
Curating Life-Changing Experiences at a Residency
The type of curating that happens at Atlantic Center for the Arts is quite different from the type most are familiar within the art world, where a curator selects and works on a presentation for an exhibition in the “white cube.” The word curate, as Read More …
Issue Preview. February 2017. Maxwell Hartley. Rima Jabbur. Robert Rivers
In the February 2017 Issue we feature Maxwell Hartley, our cover artist, as a “visitor from a parallel universe…charged with the task of delivering humankind in this universe from its own demise.” We also had engaged in great discourse with contemporary portrait painter, Rima Jabbur, and Robert Read More …
National Poster Retrospecticus at Redefine Art Gallery
National Poster Retrospecticus (NPR) hosted a one night only pop-up at Redefine Art Gallery last Thursday, January 12, 2017. The NPR is an internationally traveling show featuring over 350 posters made by more than 100 of the most prominent poster designers in North America. See more Read More …
