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Adrian-Dre Diaz on JAX

Positioned as a reclamation of self and history, JAX’s artistic practice transforms hair into a dynamic medium that celebrates the rich, textured lineage of Blackness.

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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.

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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.

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Dillon Chapman on Arlene Mejorado, Part 2

Mejorado is a director, and the photographs in her new series read like stills from various scenes in a film. And, like a truly beloved film, you’ll want to look at these photographs over and over again.

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Dillon Chapman on Nathan Storey

Storey’s archive is organic, accumulative, and about searching. Searching for something unknown (and possibly unknowable) that has been lost.

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Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres on Huai Li

Li is an artist whose playful and fiercely optimistic work questions geographic and cultural boundaries and defines identity on her own terms.

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Justin Duyao on Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio

An essay on self-criticism, human complexity, and Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio’s moving exhibition, Light Cones, on view at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library.

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Elizabeth Rooklidge on Maya Gurantz

Conceived as a “sanity ritual” in March 2020, Gurantz’s project, The Plague Archives, documents how thoroughly pandemics have been intertwined with human history.

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Asa Mendelsohn on Dillon Chapman

With her rephotographs, Chapman is building an index of looking that intercepts historical, queer relationships between artist and model.

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Lauren Siry on Cesar and Lois

Cesar and Lois create living sculptures with technological components as part of a broader exploration of power dynamics in nature and human society.

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Dillon Chapman on Maria Antonia Eguiarte Souza

In her new installation and performance, Maria Antonia Eguiarte Souza practices self-care as a way to connect with histories of queer and feminist spirituality and subversion.

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Dillon Chapman on beck haberstroh

Fixing their own biochemical signature in an image, haberstroh speaks about the nature of our bodies' relationship to photographs while refusing representation.

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Jordan Karney Chaim on Katie Ruiz

Ruiz's practice engages in silent intergenerational conversations about ancestry, pride, and the invisible work of women as caretakers of both people and traditions.

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