Kara Mshinda. Photo courtesy Alex Smith.The mixed media art of Kara Mshinda is a potent exploration of psychosis through ephemera where paintings, collages and labyrinthine line drawings merge with the…
Read More…have the capacity to spark politically-engaged conversations such as Hank Willis Thomas, Doris Salcedo, and Mickalene Thomas. American contemporary artist Kara Walker (b. 1969), for example, unveiled her first public…
Read More…installed her 2016/17 thesis show, “Gentrify Me, I’m a Criminal Now,” in the hallway across from where Kara Springer’s “A Small Matter of Engineering, Part II” was installed— a hallway…
Read More…are life-affirming. Amy Sherald speaking at PAFA in March, 2018 Painting responses- to Kara Walker and to absence of African Americans in history books Amy Sherald’s first slide shows herself…
Read Morehttps://www.theartblog.org/wp-content/uploaded/2018/02/artblog-interview-kara-springer-feb-26-2018.mp3 Kara Springer, artist Ten Days Before Freedom, a Hymnal is on view at The Galleries at Moore through March 17, 2018. Thank you to The Galleries at Moore TGMR…
Read More…is just the type of meditation that Kara Springer evokes in her recent photographic installation, Ten Days Before Freedom, A Hymnal. The installation consists of several color prints depicting the…
Read MoreShit, or “merde” as the French would have it, makes regular appearances in the art world. Piero Manzoni’s “Merde d’Artiste,” Chris Ofili’s “dung paintings” and Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-karat gold toilet,…
Read More…on the wall. Another highlight is his portrait of Kara Walker, in the form of a daguerreotype and print on paper. Close hints at the style of her own work…
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