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Our bodies, ourselves Article
Flesh can be an artist’s greatest resource.
Influential feminist artists like Orlan, Hannah Wilke and Adrian Piper have used their bodies - in performance pieces, in photographs and street theater - to illuminating ends to protest narrow standards of beauty, sexual violence or racial stereotypes.
Moroccan-born, Boston-based artist Lalla Essaydi follows in this long-standing tradition. Her...
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Lose Your Inhibitions Article
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It’s a small world Article
Santiago De Paoli is slight, with the perfect, vaguely melancholy features of a French New Wave film star.
Born in Buenos Aires, De Paoli studied biology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. But the work was difficult, too difficult for something he should love. So he made a radical change. In 2000, De Paoli began studying art at the Atlanta College of Art.
He has since been included in the...
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I See, Therefore I Am Article
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Natural Selection Article
Scott Dupree, organizer of You Can’t Fool Mother Nature at B-Complex, is a diplomat when he should probably be a dictator.
An artist himself (whose work appears in the show), Dupree clearly wants to show support and offer a forum for his fellow creatives in this exhibition of more than 60 artists.
In theory, it’s a noble endeavor. In practice, it’s a gut-busting Shoney’s buffet, with the...
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Tell A Yarn Article
Yarn has visited some genuine horrors upon the planet: god-awful afghans, the kind of scarves you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy, toilet paper cozies.
But in Annie Greene’s outrageously charming works on view in The Farm in Yarn at the Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, yarn evokes the artist’s memories of her childhood summers in the ’40s on her grandparents Adel, Ga., farm. A kind of crafty...
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It’s All in the Process Article
When artists talk about process, to paraphrase a New Age clich, they are often invoking the idea that “it’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”
Art isn’t limited to the end result. It encompasses what the artist experiences along the way and the accidents and epiphanies that occur. An art object has a kind of life span, during and after its completion.
For years, artist and printmaker...
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