Words on Art
I write about art with a focus on cultural context, lived experience, and the power of visual storytelling. My essays and reviews explore contemporary exhibitions, artists, and the deeper themes that shape creative work.
Beyond Permutations: Ten Emerging Artists Reshaping the Landscape
"Each generation rethinks the boundaries of their craft, using the moldering ideas of what was as fertilizer to push the field in new directions and incorporate new voices. As seen in the faces of the workers in French painter Jean Francois Millet’s 1866 Two Men Turning over the Soil, tilling the ground is a laborious task requiring great resolve. The 2023 Wind Fellowship Exhibition presents a collective statement of artists resolutely exerting themselves, their passions, and their art to bring about something new."
2023 Wind Fellow Spotlight: Stephanie Van Riet
"While an artist like Olafur Eliasson transforms spaces into experiential environments, Van Riet’s near obsession with sea snails is primarily a cerebral outworking. Her work intertwines personal marveling with an invitation to reflect. In identifying with the ebbs and flows of tiny creatures in a vast world, the snail trails become a line to process our own temporality, comings and goings, loss and memory..."
2023 Wind Fellow Spotlight: Athena Scott
"Athena Scott doesn't simply paint portraits; she captures the tail of a person's spirit and manifests it onto canvas. Taking in her workspace, I am immediately struck by the sheer amount of paintings in the small room. Two large ripped floor-to-ceiling sheets of craft paper hang side by side, displaying full-body paintings of Scott's niece and nephew."
2023 Wind Fellow Spotlight: Meg Wolensky
"Meg Wolensky is a painter who uses bold colors and objects to visually process the complex nature of memory, identity, and formation of self. Wolensky takes a profoundly personal approach to figurative and still life painting, which are treated as snapshots within the framework of Wolensky’s life narrative. As a result, their paintings carry an emotional charge, conveying the anxiety, pain, hope, and freedom within experiences of relationships, sexual identity, personal trauma, and global upheaval."
2023 Wind Fellow Spotlight: Kimberly Neff
"Neff's flexibility in material invokes her beliefs around the integration of the material and the spirit, and why creating art is so closely linked with her personal spirituality. But like the abstract impressionists, Neff’s personal expression also connects to those looking at the work. Invoking imagery and emotion that are familiar to the human experience, Neff draws connections between our own inner life and the physical world around us."
"Whoever you are, wherever you are emerging from, you are welcome into this space."
Danielle Redden from "Beyond Permutations: Ten Emerging Artists Reshaping the Landscape"
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