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Unapologetic: Women Artists and Power through Vulnerability
Tala Madani. Love Doctor, 2015. Collection of Christina Papadopoulou. Photo courtesy of Josh White. “I’m so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It’s so bizarre to me.”...
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Barely There: The Sculptures of Vanessa Brook Williams
Vanessa Brook Williams. Untitled, 2012-2014. Thread, eye screws. Installation detail. Exhibited as part of MINT Gallery’s Leap Year Fellowship in 2014. Photo by Margaret Hiden. Courtesy of the artist....
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An Imposing Figure: Thoughts on Activism and Commodification
Tanya Wischerath. Feminist Christmas Miracle. Courtesy of the artist. I recently submitted a painting of my partner, Kelly, to the BP Portrait Award competition. Accompanying it was this statement: I...
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Two Exhibitions Show Artists Grappling with the Ravages of AIDS
Installation view of Art AIDS America, Bronx Museum. Willie Cole. How Do You Spell America? #2, 1993. Oil stick, chalk, wood and latex on Masonite, 49.2 x 96.5 x 4.5 inches. © Marisol Díaz, 2016. A few...
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Exposing the Self Through Artmaking
Tino Rodriguez. Invocation, 2008. Oil on wood, 17″ x 19″. Courtesy of the artist. My work emerges from a need to express and question who I am. Using myself as the subject of my work both questions and...
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Dr. Howard Moseley Answers Your Questions
Paul Gagner. Enough Is Enough, 2015. Oil on canvas, 10 x 14 inches. © Paul Gagner. For the “New Kids on the Block” column in the “Exposed” issue, acclaimed art-world self-help author Howard Moseley,...
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All The Colorful Lights: Liz Nielsen, Carolina Wheat, and Elijah Wheat Showroom
Liz Nielsen. Ring of Runes, 2016. Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique. Printed on FujiFlex. 39 7/16 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist, Danziger Gallery, SOCO Gallery. Inside Liz Nielsen’s studio, my...
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Speaking Without Words
Siobhan Aluvalot. Bird. Courtesy of the artist. “A place where there isn’t any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It’s not a place you can get to by a boat or a train....
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On Exposure
Matthew Morrocco. Paul, 2015. Inkjet Print, 30″ x 24″. Courtesy of the artist. In the world of contemporary art, we are inundated by images. From art made to be photographed and shared, to Internet...
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In Defense Against Material: An Interview with A. Laurie Palmer
A. Laurie Palmer. Heap Leach Field, Nevada (silver). Courtesy of the artist. In 2015, Black Dog Publishing released A. Laurie Palmer’s book, In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material...
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Queer Secrets Exposed
Photo of Vera Rubin. Courtesy of the artist. A beautiful photograph conveys what the artist sees as its rightful and best composition. A photo, said to express a thousand words, has millions of...
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The Feminist Legacy in Radical Plastic
Carolyn Carr. Table from the Painter’s Studio, 1996-2016. Lizella Clay, artist glazes, natural and mineral pigments, wood, plaster, glass, 58″ x 28″ x 28″. © Carolyn Carr. Courtesy of the artist and...
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Fame and Feminism: An Interview with Kate Durbin
Kate Durbin. Hello Selfie, photo documentation by Jessie Askinazi. Courtesy of the artist. Which parts of ourselves do we choose to bare in public? What are the likes, experiences, and frustrations...
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Things That Look Like Me
Vinsantos. SHE LIVES ALONE, detail, 2016. Polymer clay, cosmetics, quartz crystal, vintage and antique jewelry and accessories, 16″ x 46″. Courtesy of the artist. I’ve always surrounded myself with...
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A Fat Brown Babe’s Guide to Exposure (in Five Acts)
Virgie Tovar. Photo courtesy of the author. I I’m a donut-slinging vigilante, patriarchy’s hard-cock nightmare. My 250-pound body—jiggling proud—represents femininity uncontained. I didn’t make the...
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Lesley Johnstone and Dan Adler on Liz Magor’s Habitude
Views of the exhibition Liz Magor. Habitude presented at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, from June 22 to September 5, 2016. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay. The largest survey of Liz Magor’s work to...
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Letter from the Editor, Ben McCoy
Ben McCoy. Photo by Ginger Robinson. Image courtesy of the author. When I was asked to be the guest editor of this issue, I immediately thought that, as a writer, performance artist, and visual artist,...
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