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Repository 224: The Flower, The Witch and the Pool Toy
Below is my artist statement for the exhibition I will have in Portland in March. Please save the date for the opening, and come say hi! Saturday, March 7, 2020, 6-8 PM, Luke’s Frame Shop (Albina Street location) The Flower the Witch and the Pool Toy: New work by Catherine Haley Epstein Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back, it makes possible. When id is ambiguously uttered-the wonder of being several-she doesn’t defend herself against…
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Repository 220: Aromatica Poetica Review of Esxence
Realizing some Mindmarrow readers might not have seen the post on SM – I’m excited to share that the following essay is featured in Aromatica Poetica, a journal dedicated to all things scent founded by Leona Godin. She asked if I could review the Esxence event, where I was in April to do a workshop on art and the niche scent landscape from an American (and artist’s) perspective. She kindly edited and published the work, and I recommend you follow…
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Repository 217: Hilma’s Project
After a transcontinental red eye from the West coast, I dropped my bags in the West Village and took the subway uptown. On twenty-eight hours of no sleep, I arrived at the Guggenheim to see the “Hilma af Klimt: Paintings for the Future” show. This was a pilgrimage, as a woman artist who knows 100 percent that we have not been given our due in the art world, that our natural creativity and depth of thinking have not been explored…
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Repository 213: Happy Birthday Jasper Johns!
The habit of regarding “art” as a thing apart from life is fatal to the development of taste. – Edith Wharton Dear Mr. Johns, I am writing to wish you the happiest of birthdays! It was a pleasure to see all of your work two weeks ago at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. Despite the pomp of the Broad, “Resembling the Truth” was an intimate retrospective, full of important work from your private collection, as well as the major…
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Repository 212: Richard Kurtz | Wrestlers and Golden Books
Below is an essay I wrote after interviewing artist Richard Kurtz last month, and diving deep into insider/outsider/whatchamacallit art which I have been interested in for some time. His work will be featured at the New York Outsider Art Fair in New York this month (January 18 – 21). Please visit Booth 19 should you find yourself there. Meanwhile – let’s dissect the idea of outside art. Peace – c “Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more…
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Repository 208: An Art Game Inspired by Tolerance and the Five Senses | Interview with Sally Taylor
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton Before diving in and presenting you with a project by and conversation with the visionary artist and musician Sally Taylor, it’s important to be precise and set the tone about the current nature of art whether in schools or our culture. Basically let’s widen our idea of art. The Western world currently associates art with status, high culture,…
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Repository 196: Manifesta | Excrement Makes Its Powerful and Relevant Case Again
This year one of the major nomadic biennales in Europe, Manifesta 11 is going on in Zurich. Manifesta was born in the 90s as a response to the Cold War where artists were reflecting on social, political and cultural realities in the area. The curator this year is German artist Christian Jankowski, and the title is “What People do For Money – Some Joint Ventures”. Essentially there are 30 artists making new commissions, 30 satellite venues and two main institutions showing the…
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