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Haley Jane Samuelson’s Investigation of Femininity
The photographs of Haley Jane Samuelson take place in abandoned settings, quite often man-made structures being reclaimed by their natural surroundings. These places of transition provide the opportunity to position the feminine experience on a literal threshold of what once was and what is about to be. I started photographing modern dancers in 2009, […]
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Lisa Adams: An Evolving Practice
My first official assignment as a writer sent me to Downtown, Los Angeles at the Santa Fe Artist Colony to interview Lisa Adams. It was the winter of 2008, nearly five years exactly that I met Lisa for the first time. She had just applied spray paint to a large work titled We Destroyed the […]
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Chie Yamayoshi Captures Ephemeral Eternity
Following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011, artist Chie Yamayoshi looked to the annual blooming of the Japanese Cherry Blossom as a source of inspiration and renewal. An incredibly rare and transient event, Yamayoshi layers artificiality with the natural world by replicating the blooming through an 8-channel projection. Immersed within the installation […]
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Lisa Adams: Paradise Notwithstanding
The idea of paradise as a pretty place has never really sat well with me. Perhaps because I don’t embrace its biblical connotations. Paradise is simply the best we can conjure for ourselves. My paradise is broken, melancholic maybe, but beautiful nevertheless. It’s a place that makes me feel comfortable. Though the landscape at once […]