THIS IS NOT A DRILL BY JEFFERSON PINDER PRESENTED BY CULTURALDC 100TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR MEMORIALIZING THE RED SUMMER OF 1919 STOPS AT SOURCE THEATRE WASHINGTON, DC – As a highlight of CulturalDC’s 20th Anniversary Season, alumni artist Jefferson Pinder will bring a limited-run engagement of a performance art piece exploring […]
For someone normally adept at writing, I have been digging deep to find my words. As the days roll by, with politicians scrambling to explain away or conceal the catastrophic impact Covid-19 is having on our society, our culture, our very lives, I find myself resistant to words. Though I deeply love them, […]
Christopher Miles’s ceramic sculptures are lurching and sprouting eruptions of organic form. Opulent clay bodies spew glazes from tubular protrusions and gawping cavities, evoking visceral bodily transformation and dramas of ruinous ravishment. To the extent Miles’s sculpture represents disfigurement and eroticized physicality, he is arguably the David Cronenberg of contemporary ceramics. Not only can one […]
Brian Boucher’s Daily Dispatch | San Francisco, January 17, 2020 UNTITLED, ART. Jan 17 · 7 min read “We All Feel Broken”: Ramekon O’Arwisters’ Sculptures Stand for Our Vulnerable Beauty Cheesecake #8, Ramekon O’Arwisters, 2019, textiles, ceramics, pins, 15 x 17 x 15 inches If you’re looking for the works that pack the most coloristic […]
Markus Linnenbrink’s dazzlingly seductive work functions like painting, but it isn’t. Working with epoxy resin, wooden supports, pigment, and a router mobilized by two joysticks, Linnenbrink constructs objects that examine both painting and sculpture. He is also known for color-saturated installations of vast, wall-spanning bands of dripping paint. His process is methodical and […]
Dialogue and criticism are integral to a vibrant arts community. With this view, I’ve invited Julia Couzens to write and edit posts about exhibitions and artists exhibiting at PSG. I’m excited and honored she has agreed to launch this experimental project – stay tuned!!! JULIA COUZENS is an artist who also writes about contemporary art. […]
Written by Julia Couzens Crusty, clotted, stacked, stamped, skewered and pinched, the ceramic art of Tony Marsh, Nancy Selvin, and Linda Sormin demonstrates clay’s power to defy expectations, to pick apart genre hierarchies, and to vehemently advocate for sensual exuberance. As a repository of touch, clay is unparalleled. As a medium for excavating social constructs, […]