Artblog | Sydney Cox

December 1, 2018 by Sydney Cox

Fiber artist Ariel Posh talks craft arts, women’s roles, and the need for equality in arts leadership

Sydney Cox gets a visit from one of her favorite up-and-coming fiber artists, Ariel Posh. Here they discuss the recent Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) grad’s “thread paintings” and the age old question of craft’s relationship to gender. Read on and see below for recent examples of Posh’s intricate and often irreverent works. P.S. we’d like to say there’s something amazing in the Baltimore water. Celebrated artist and “MacArthur genius” awardee, Joyce Scott, whose work uses craft techniques (weaving, beading) to discuss serious representation of women and people of color, is a MICA graduate!

October 14, 2018 by Sydney Cox

The Plant That Heals May Also Poison, Ree Morton lights up the ICA

New Artblog contributor, Sydd Cox takes in the retrospective of Ree Morton’s playful body of work, on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art through December 23, 2018. “The Plant That Heals May Also Poison” includes sculptures and installation works from Morton’s brief but fruitful career infusing post-minimalism with idiosyncratic material riffs on the maternal.