Marina Strocchi
The points of intersection between skyscraper windows in Manhattan sunset III, 2020, are live; they ring with a vibrant, almost spiritual, blue. Between them, white spaces where the lives of others would be are subtly under-painted with this same blue – underpinned by its electric energy. The painting sees Manhattan from the swaying vantage point of a […]
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Kyoko Imazu
A feline figure looks us almost in the eye in Beetle Spotting, 2018. Offering this slant gaze at once curious and evasive, the cat’s face is captivating – their whiskers tremulous and sensitive against a “featureless” background. Refusing to offer either geographical or perspectival specificity, this washed background strikes against the intense and textured particularity of […]
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August Carpenter
Most of The Actions of Storms; sleep movements, 2021, is taken up by black space – the deep, uninterrupted darkness that monotypes can produce. About four fifths of the way up the panel, a horizon line hosts a set of silent, rectilinear forms, drawn into being gently as if through a mist. Below or in front […]
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Indigenous Printmaking
Jeremy Eccles discusses the development, politics and complexities of indigenous printmaking in Issue 39.
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