Puzzles and Promises
Tania Pérez Córdova's enigmatic sculptures are a response to the materials and circumstances of their own making.
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Message to Self: Only Connect
Working alone and drawing on craft traditions, nomadic sculptor ektor garcia creates myriad fabric, metal, and ceramic works with communal import.
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Stitching the Social Fabric
Tschabalala Self surveys Black American life in figurative paintings, textile collages, and sculptures.
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A New Meaning for “We the People”
Katy Grannan photographs diverse Americans wearing Kara Hamilton's politically fraught jewelry.
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Hugh Hayden Crafts the Legacy of the African Diaspora
The American sculptor uses tree limbs, bird feathers, and frying pans to reveal the complexity of a transatlantic Black identity.
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Kapwani Kiwanga Explores the Links Between Nature, Technology, and Racial Oppression
In photos, installations, and performances the Paris-based Canadian artist offers ways to "work through" our postcolonial challenges.
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Experiencing the Shock of the Old, Fiber Artists Rediscover Shows Like MoMA’s Pivotal 1969 “Wall Hangings”
Just as the American textile industry began its inexorable decline, artists like Lenore Tawney, Sheila Hicks, and Claire Zeisler decided to eschew the machine for other possibilities.
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Diedrick Brackens Interweaves Black History, Myth, and Self-Portraiture
In a strange twist of fate, Diedrick Brackens's new weavings arrived in the world at about the same time as COVID-19, a disease that, like AIDS, disproportionately affects black Americans.
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Suzanne Jackson’s Ethereal Acrylic Hangings Connect Autobiography and Abstraction
Suzanne Jackson's exhibition at Ortuzar Projects was an autobiography in visual form.
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Brent Wadden’s Abstract Weavings Are Equal Parts Anni and Josef Albers
Anni and Josef Albers did not have children. If they had, the kids might have grown up to make work like Brent Wadden's. The Canadian artist uses Anni's medium, weaving, to create abstract…
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