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On The Intersection of Blackness and Queerness: The Fantastical Worlds of William PK Carter.

William PK Carter builds worlds where fabric breathes, animals sing, and identity finds its rhythm in thread. Carter’s practice is meticulous, but it began long before she even picked up a needle; art was already within her, quietly fractalizing into the person she’d become. “Both my parents painted for fun,” Carter says. “And also, my […]

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Inside the Unconscious Mind of surrealist artist Robert Mango

Robert Mango’s art lives in the space where the real and the imagined converge—a place of myth-making, dream-making, and surrealist logic. From his formative years in Chicago, he stood out at the School of the Art Institute, where he quickly became, as he puts it, “the darling of the teachers there” because he had “a […]

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The Children are all Ours: Mekia Machine’s Abstract Figurative Art

“ The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” –James Baldwin Mekia Machine is a fierce, inspiring, and visionary abstract figurative artist I met last month at the Blue Gallery in […]

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“Life Cycle of a Bird Brain”: An Exploration of Language and Perception in Abstract Sculpture

For artist Natale Adgnot, curiosity is key. In her current exhibition, Life Cycle of a Bird Brain, on view at Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn, September 4 – 29, Adgnot takes viewers on a journey that fractally combines language, logical fallacies, and bird imagery. Having a background in fashion from her studies in Paris, Adgnot […]