In leveraging the viewer’s gravitation towards horrific iconography, Aroonsakool comments on a monstrous transformation of the body that results from economic exploitation.

Pachowicz combines references to art history, vernacular material, and the natural environment in lyrical paintings that present an ethereal—and at times unsettling—vision of the image world.

 

Lara Bullock on Joe Yorty

In Yorty’s work, we encounter the freedom offered up by a “queer space” that exists in the present and that allows us to move past fixed notions.

Dillon Chapman on Hazel Katz

This narrative short is nothing less than a revolutionary handling of trans representation.

Justin Duyao on Marinta Skupin

Skupin’s collection of paintings, drawings, and works on paper mourns the ongoing destruction of the planet, at the same time that it paves the way for a new way of understanding environmental crises.

Portfolio: Andrew Alcasid

On Alcasid’s series, BMT (Blood and Marrow Transplantation), a meditation on time and suffering during the course of aggressive cancer treatment.

One Work: Philip Brun Del Re

In Brun Del Re’s SERVE, every possible association with the word congeals together to form something of a single-word manifesto.

Portfolio: Sylvia Fernández

Fernández explores the boundaries of her own humanness, as an embodied animal whose existence is intertwined with the natural environment around her.

Josh Tonies with HereIn

Tonies crafts nuanced studies of the natural environment, delving into ecological phenomena with works that are both scientifically-engaged and deeply poetic.

Evan Apodaca with HereIn

Apodaca talks with HereIn about the histories that the world chooses to remember and those it chooses to forget.

Danielle Dean with HereIn