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.
Art Files: Lauren Wilson
Lauren Wilson was raised in Oakland, California. Her artwork has continually focused on personal relationships, collections and attachment.
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.
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Museum?
It seems these days everyone is. My experience with museums has been a roller coaster to say the least. As a curator and consultant, breaking through that cultural barrier has not been the easiest task.
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.
Urban Theater: The Drama and Ceaseless Advancement of Gentrification in Los Angeles
Where is the urban landscape not changing? Or perhaps a more location-specific question: How fast is your urban landscape changing? Los Angeles is in a serious housing crisis. The Westside of Los Angeles, where I live, seems to be in a perpetual state of development.
Art Files: Daisy Diamond
Daisy Diamond is a Philadelphia-based artist who works with welding and found materials.
Art Files: Brian Walters
Brian Walters is a self-taught artist based out of Fairfield County, CT.
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.
From Homeland to New Hope: Shop of India Celebrates 50 Years
Since 1971, the Jain family has been running Shop of India in the quaint town of New Hope, Pennsylvania. Recently, the store celebrated 50 years of business.