Logan Cryer talks with artist and Tyler School of Art and Architecture professor Jesse Harrod, about the Canadian artist’s journey as an artist, from Nova Scotia, to Chicago, to Virginia and Philadelphia.
Read MoreDear readers, as we publish the cash prize and honorable mention winners in the 2019 Art Writing Challenge, we’d like to thank everyone who took the time to share their writing with us and congratulate all the winners!
Read MoreLike Romare Bearden’s collages, Musson brings together a spirit of formal experimentation with a deep-rooted cultural awareness. The title of his canvas Knowledge God may refer to the 1995 song of the same name by Raekwon, of the Wu Tang Clan. The repeated patterns of the Coogi fragments echo like musical phrases across the canvas, creating a sort of sweater sound collage. Just as Bearden’s collages often evoke sense of communal ritual (as in his series, The Prevalence of Ritual), Musson draws on shared reference points that span high-brow to low-brow to create visually arresting and thought-provoking work.
Read MoreHouse of Escaping Forms is a project of the Los Angeles-based collaborating couple, Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson, who actually live in a hilltop abode populated, of necessity and by choice, with their functional, found-object creations and hand-made objects.
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