Malachi Black

Malachi Black is the author of Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for the PSA’s New American Poets Series (chosen by Ilya Kaminsky). Black’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review […]

Carole Silverstein

Carole Silverstein is a Los Angeles based artist who has exhibited in galleries and alternative venues throughout the US, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco. In 2015 she showed at the 56th Venice Biennale in an exhibit entitled “We Must Risk Delight: 20 Artists from Los Angeles” at the Magazzino […]

William J. Simmons

William J. Simmons is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles and New York.
This is his third interview in this series, the second interview can be found here, and the first interview can be found here.

Matthew Ronay

Matthew Ronay (b. 1976, Louisville, KY) lives in New York. In 2016, his work was the subject of a solo-presentation at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, with a fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue published on the occasion. He has exhibited extensively at major institutions worldwide, including: Crystal Bridges Museum of […]

Ariana Page Russell

Ariana Page Russell creates images that explore the skin as a document of human experience, using her own hypersensitive flesh to illustrate the ways we expose, express, adorn and articulate ourselves. Her fascination with skin and the body are inspired in part by her dermatographia, a condition in which one’s skin temporarily welts when lightly scratched. […]

Jessica Piazza

Jessica Piazza is the author of three poetry collections and a children’s book. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Jessica now lives in Los Angeles where she is a writing professor at the University of Southern Californiaand a book club facilitator for Literary Affairs. She co-founded Bat City Review and Gold Line Press, and is the 2019 recipient of […]

Margaux Williamson

Margaux Williamson is an artist from Toronto, born in Pittsburgh. Her first book of paintings, I Could See Everything (Coach House Books) accompanied shows at Frith Street Gallery in London, and Mulherin+Pollard in New York. Her full-length movie, Teenager Hamlet, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and now lives on UbuWeb. And a YouTube […]

Anna Conway

Anna Conway (b. 1973) first came to prominence in the 2005 group exhibition, Greater New York, at MoMA PS1, where her meticulously rendered paintings announced the arrival of a singular talent. Her stylistic development has emerged from spectacular and unpredicted encounters with natural forces beyond normal human experience, to a more anthropological and psychological exploration […]

Polly M. Law

Polly M. Law is an artist, bricoleur, and mythologenist living and working in the Mid Hudson Valley of New York.  She explores attachment in both the literal and spiritual senses, humans and nature are her vehicles. Bricolage and monoprinting are her media which she exploits ignoring the boundary between art and craft- especially the traditionally […]

Paula Rebsom

Paula Rebsom describes herself as an Artist, Mother, Educator, and Trickster. All of these identities inform her interdisciplinary visual art practice which includes making sculptures from wood and fabric, site-specific installations, and image-based work using motion-sensor cameras. She’s always had an interest in science, specifically wildlife ecology, and applies elements of that into her work. […]