Marta Obiols Fornell and Tomas Hed
Marta Obiols Fornell is a curator and an art gallery owner in Gozo, Malta. She runs the gallery together with Tomas Hed with a focus on modern, contemporary art. She studied Philosophy in Spain and Germany and also Religious Sciences. Her strong motivation and determination in dealing with artists in Malta, especially in Gozo, has […]
Edgar Oliver
Edgar Oliver, photo by Pavel Antonov Edgar Oliver is a writer and performer who has lived and worked in New York for many years. He started out reading his poems and performing monologues at the Pyramid night club in the early 1980’s. This is his third interview with Brainard Carey in this series. From 1988 to […]
Bek Andersen
Bek Andersen received an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art in 2017 after working for several years as a fashion and entertainment photographer in New York City. A queer spiritualist raised by devout Mormon parents in a suburb of Oklahoma City, Andersen’s work is concerned with the fictive and performative identities of power, gender, […]
Daniel Foster
Art Values & Philosophies By Daniel Foster Art is fundamentally about the pursuit of beauty and/or truth. Beauty is not always truthful, and truth is not always beautiful. Very few professions work with such important content and tools for change and the humanistic benefit of the individual, family, groups, organizations, communities, and society. Everyone’s “Wow” […]
Jared Ledesma
Jared Ledesma is Associate Curator at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. The Des Moines Art Center is a nationally renowned modern and contemporary art museum with an esteemed permanent collection, and an art school that offers studio classes for artists of all ages. Since arriving at the Art Center in 2017, Ledesma has […]
Alison Ward
Alison Ward is a multimedia artist based in Kingsbury, Texas. Her work spans the gamut from vaudeville to multimedia installation sculptures, but in everything she does she creates pieces that involve a larger audience, getting them directly involved and participating in the work. She is currently working on a collective project called Habitable Spaces. Habitable […]
José Guadalupe Garza
José Guadalupe Garza was born along the US/Mexico border. He is an artist, educator, and veteran working in new and traditional media. His studio practice utilizes cinema and popular culture as theoretical frameworks to explore the changing demographic and cultural landscape of the U.S. with significance to the Latinx experience. Garza borrows from films, music, […]
Carlos Monleon Gendall
Carlos works with a variety of processes and materials, both living and nonliving, that result in sculptural and participatory artworks.These span across different levels of bodily sensation and awareness; from the microbiological to the performative and social bodies. His main line of line of work traces evolutionary processes that stem from digestion and cognition and […]
Catherine Pierce
Catherine Pierce is the author of four books of poems, most recently Danger Days, published by Saturnalia Books in October 2020. Her other books are The Tornado Is the World, The Girls of Peculiar, and Famous Last Words. Pierce’s work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, The […]
Lenard Smith
Lenard Smith is a first generation Ghanaian-American interdisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Smith’s Advanced Photographic Studies MFA from Bard College grounds his work in traditional practices and methodologies — his interest in tableaux pictures are derived from historical guide books that offer solutions to life or death scenarios. Smith’s experimentation with […]