Issue #3–COLLECT
With the powerful and frightening rise of artificial intelligence, to governments and corporations collecting personal data, to the human compulsion to gather and arrange, we collect daily. Issue #3–Collect will wander through various assemblages within space and investigate the multitude of ways we collect and order our world.
OUR CONTENT
Each issue of our magazine includes Art Files, Stories, Space Futures, Interviews, and Essays.
“What is my inner landscape?” An Interview with Zoë Welsh
Zoë Welsh was born in Wilkinsburg, PA and received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2016. She currently works out of her studio at Radiant Hall Studios in Pittsburgh, PA. Zoë creates mixed media paintings based on her interest in translating mental space into symbolic landscape.
Art Files: Alex Gabriel
Alex Gabriel’s work is an art practice as a generative method to create space for questions held in somatic, cultural and ecological bodies.
Art Files: Joaquin Stacey-Calle
Joaquín Stacey-Calle was born in Quito, Ecuador, and lived there until he was 14. In 2014, he and his family moved to Miami.
Art Files: Charlie Visconage
Charlie Visconage is a self-taught artist living and working in Washington, DC.
Art Files: Cassandra Chalfant
Cassandra Chalfant’s work delves into the ways we experience our most personal images. Using photographs, memory, and objects as source material, Chalfant explores her own memories, the collective memories of her family, and the imagined worlds she has created. Through painting, Chalfant immerses herself and the viewer in places she’s been, and in the unknowable experiences of others.
Art Files: Heather den Uijl
Heather den Uijl is a painter living and working in Houston, TX. Den Uijl’s work consists of a variety of large- and small-scale abstract paintings that utilize hyper-saturated colors, complex interwoven layers and abstracted geometrical forms that endlessly slip, slide, float and wobble past each other.
Art Files: Anna Teiche
Working in oil painting, gouache and drawing, Anna Teiche uses uncanny colors and compositions combined with layers of thick and thin paint to create landscapes that often feel bodily.
Art Files: Samantha Van Heest
is an artist and art educator currently residing in the greater Washington DC area. She has exhibited her work across the United States and in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Ordinary Objects: An Interview with Katherine Kesey
Katherine Kesey is an oil painter, mixed media artist and writer based in Los Angeles, California.