We all descended upon Miami on Friday in our neutral-colored clothing and dark lipstick, our VISA cards and VIP passes, renting cars and drinking $25-a-glass wine, excited to inundate ourselves with art viewing and consuming, to witness the procession of the spectacle. As a rising tide Read More …
“Artistic collaboration is a special and obvious case of the manipulation of the figure of the artist, for at the very least collaboration involves a deliberately chosen alteration of artistic identity from individual to composite subjectivity.” —Charles Green, Collaboration as Symptom Artistic collaborations oppose Read More …
“Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components—that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.” —Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia Shelby O’Brien acknowledges the horrors of the human body in abject memorials, crafted using human blood in traditionally domestic material processes Read More …
“The body presents the paradox of contained and container at once…our attention is continually focused upon the boundaries or limits of the body…” -Susan Stewart Culling elements of her video performances from the language and aesthetics of commodified, New Age healing, Shana Moulton’s trembling Read More …
Brandon Geurts was awarded “Best Heavy Metal Visual Artist” in Orlando Weekly’s 2014 Best of Orlando lineup. Two years later, as the artist prepares for his upcoming thesis exhibition for his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of South Florida, he continues to Read More …
“It seems it is only from the position of being out of place that we can attempt to develop new skill—perceptual and cognitive—to map the new hyperspaces wherein we have to survive…” -Miwon Kwon Two stooping figures emerge from a chaotic mass of delicately cut Read More …
I have abandoned Orlando for the past two summers to live in Philadelphia and work on my MFA in a low-residency program. I left the city in mourning this June, and found that my own grieving process caught up with me when I entered into Read More …
I left Orlando for school in Philadelphia a week after the tragedy at Pulse. My friends were still grieving, lines of people waiting to donate blood still stretched across many blocks in 100-degree weather, and names had just recently stopped being added to the list Read More …
The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, now in its third year, is an initiative of the Orlando Museum of Art. The Florida Prize presents an exhibition of ten artists living and working in the state, with one artist selected as the winner of the prize. Read More …
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