Process Notes A sculptural poem, “Hollow Haunts” explores questions of historicity: What is the work of time, and how are we at its mercy when we attempt to negotiate our collective histories? Is historical authenticity at odds with the evolution of our collective […]
“My father told me to do what I loved to do — one third of my life will be work.” —Emily Mohn-Slate, “Needlework” I haven’t wanted to write this foreword. I haven’t wanted to offer the kind of perfunctory sentiments that are often included in these prefatory remarks—how […]
Luis was preparing a paper. It was February, cold in the evenings when he walked home through thin air to the Central Square condo he shared with his wife and infant son. In June he would present his work at the American Mathematics Society in Baltimore and, if all […]
Maybe opera is like the cliché about chocolate: addictive for some; for others, one of those guilty pleasures. Safe, the tried and true tends to prevail: silly, sentimental plots with lush music to sooth the audience, to assure them that all is well, that they are where […]
ABSTRACT IMAGES OF THE PLANET: A Micro-Interview with Rebecca Allan by Elaine Sexton ES: We’ve selected a number of your tondinos, or globe-shaped works to feature in this issue, which you have made alongside your other landscape-oriented work for quite some time. Would you talk a bit about […]
A FEELING OF LUMINOSITY: A Micro-Interview with Katherine Bradford by Elaine Sexton ES: I’ve just come from “Fear of Waves,” an exhibition of your work at CANADA gallery in New York. These new painting are more complex than earlier work, incorporating aspects of “outer space” and on […]
HOW FAR I ALLOW MYSELF TO GO AWAY FROM THE WORLD: A Micro-Interview with Rick Fox by Elaine Sexton ES: Until recently your exhibited work has been oil on canvas, close to abstract seascapes and landscapes, shapes on the edge of being identified as such. This new work, […]
In “The Night My Mother Left Me for America,” Clara Changxin Fang draws “a square house with a courtyard in the center, / a threshold / separating it from the street. The image of the “square house” occupies the poem between the first two tercets and the stanzas that […]
MEDITATIVE PRACTICE HAS BECOME MY COUNTRY: A Micro-Interview with Janet Pierce by Elaine Sexton ES: I’m sure I’m not the first to suggest a connection between this work and that of Mark Rothko, though with a more luminous dimension. They appeared to be shot through with light. […]
Clipper from A Hurwitz Studio on Vimeo. Sick Day from A Hurwitz Studio on Vimeo. THE ACTUAL LIGHT IN A VIRTUAL SPACE: A Micro-Interview with Adam Hurwitz by Elaine Sexton ES: Adam, I experience these short computer generated videos much like that of reading a poem. […]
