“Optical Journeys: Joyce Nojima and Kayla Cloonan at En Em Art Space” by Justina Martino A lovely write-up on the show “Deceptive Clarity” at my representing gallery in Sacramento, CA: EN EM Art Space. M.A. in Art History and Gallery Assistant for EN EM Art Space, Justina Martino. “Deceptive Clarity features Kayla Cloonan’s large multi-media… Continue reading Publication in TUBE Magazine
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Feature in Studio Visit Magazine – Volume 28
My first professional artist publication in Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 28, 2015! You can find my work on page 31. Click here to download the digital copy of this issue Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible. And thank you Studio Visit Magazine for choosing me to be featured among the fabulous artists within… Continue reading Feature in Studio Visit Magazine – Volume 28
Commentary on Conceptual Art: Chapter 5
“The language of politics had become indistinguishable from that of advertising.” “Conceptual art can be seen as a reaction against the misuse of language and also as a critique of consumer society.” Conceptual art working in seven areas: 1. serial art (process to the forefront) 2. anti-form sculptures 3. language-based 4. theoretical work 5.… Continue reading Commentary on Conceptual Art: Chapter 5
Commentary on Sol Lewitt’s Paragraphs on Contemporary Art and Sentences on Contemporary Art
Paragraphs Sol Lewitt’s “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art” was a nice slice of information on the basic ideas behind what defines conceptual art. Conceptual work often denies faculties of skill or craftsmanship, any sense of logic and brings the work outside the concerns of formal structure. This idea that the work doesn’t have to be rejected… Continue reading Commentary on Sol Lewitt’s Paragraphs on Contemporary Art and Sentences on Contemporary Art
Artist Interview: Jerome Meadows
This is my recent interview with artist/sculpture Jerome Meadows, who currently resides in Savannah, GA, gallery owner of Indigo Sky Community Gallery at which I am an intern. Jerome Meadows March 8, 2013 Kayla Cloonan: What is your first memory of realizing when you wanted to become an artist? Jerome Meadows: There was a sense… Continue reading Artist Interview: Jerome Meadows
Exhibition Review: “Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting”
SCAD Museum of Art Curator: Melissa Messina The contemporary painting world is constantly experimenting with ways to discuss the history of painting through creative uses of media. In the exhibition “Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting” at the SCAD Museum of Art, a narrative is created throughout the history of fibers from Sheila Hicks… Continue reading Exhibition Review: “Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting”
Commentary on DER LIEBE GOTT STECKT IM DETAIL: Reading Twombly
“The wall metaphor, the dirty graffiti, the emphasis on tactility, the sparse and additive configuration of the works…” Twombly’s work takes on a new concept of ‘human scale’ in which the markmaking more closely immitates the mark of an average person, even within the context of a larger space. “Twombly…exemplifies the importance of the little.”… Continue reading Commentary on DER LIEBE GOTT STECKT IM DETAIL: Reading Twombly
Commentary on Metaphysical Feelings in Modern Art
The theme of this article focuses on aesthetic, or purely formalist art vs. metaphysical, or art with meaning. “There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.” Beginning with the question of truth and beauty, even early religious art depicting realistically rendered figures in a space is viewed as more humanist then religious. Newman goes… Continue reading Commentary on Metaphysical Feelings in Modern Art
Commentary on Depth Charge (Excerpt from The Ab-Ex Effect)
The article that interested me the most in the ArtForum collection was Depth Charge with Terry Winters and John Elerfield. It’s curious to me the idea of combining “the decorative flatness of modernist painting and something messier and more volumetric.” I’m intrigued by the sense of depth in De Kooning’s work – the push and… Continue reading Commentary on Depth Charge (Excerpt from The Ab-Ex Effect)
Commentary on Provisional Painting Part 2: To Rest Lightly On Earth
The idea of “painting is impossible” is a heavy statement, and yet it yields some truth to me. Ever since the invention of photography, painting shifted its intention from simply reproducing image, to an actual construction of something from nothing. In the beginning of the article, the reference to Jean Paul Sartre’s work Being and… Continue reading Commentary on Provisional Painting Part 2: To Rest Lightly On Earth
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