In 2007, Military Times reported that on average, 22 American veterans commit suicide daily. Michael Moffett cited this statistic in the first three minutes of our conversation. He remembered the night he was called out of his foxhole; Moffett’s CO came to say he was Read More …
Let’s start in the barrio. The Bronx. Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz was one of seven kids, raised on a single person’s salary; finances were important to her. “I was born like this,” she began, by saying she’d always been artistic and explained that illustration and graphic design Read More …
Origami Twitter birds wing behind a muse in The Silent Generation, chirping their 140-character messages on the breeze while a baby girl pecks at the typewriter of social change. In his Typewriter City series, Ed Myers addresses our modernity and facility of communication, while picturing Read More …
So the underwater ladies are faceless and partially dressed in a way that could be perceived as sexualizing if you wanted to poke some bubbles, but they are roundly pointing at more. The depth of this work speaks to the photo shoot (whose only real Read More …
Pedro called himself an “old man” no fewer than three times while we spoke last week, and I kept telling him it wasn’t so. If it were a self portrait, he might include wrinkles the rest of us can’t see, but more likely he’s settling Read More …
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Hector Leon’s family moved to the U.S. when he was 5 years old. His moody charcoals, dark pastel images, and paintings follow all of the lush and ample contours afforded to a funeral shroud. “I like the contrast of Read More …
Jessica Earley paints with a broad palette. The thirty-something emerged into Orlando’s art scene in 2008 through puppetry and parade with the arts and music production group, Bread and Circuses. As if for a lark, Earley threw a solo parade commemorating her 10,000 days living Read More …
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