But the idea of transformation has always been something that I romanticize in a work. I’m cautious of it but I also need it to connect my thoughts with the process of making. That’s really important.
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Nari Ward
From Not-a-Superhero #8, August ’94, issue: Transformed! by Luca Buvoli
- Irvine Welsh by Jenifer Berman
- Janwillem van de Wetering by Stanley Moss
- Nick Pappas by Katy Martin
- Mark Eitzel by Michael Kroll
- Jeffrey Vallance by David Pagel
- A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde by Ada Gay Griffin & Michelle Parkerson
- Tone Dialing by Ornette Coleman
- Cheick Oumar Sissoko by Manon Slome
- Lee Breuer by Michael Goldberg
- Martha Plimpton by Frank Pugliese
Interviews
- Day and Night, Part Two by Lynne Tillman
- Timothy Britten Parker by Ron Rifkin
- Carving Babies by Rupert Thomson
- Tiara by Stephen Beachy
- Two Poems by Ulla Hahn
- Carlos Reynoso: Diary of a Dissection by Laren Stover
- Diana Michener by Deborah Eisenberg
- Elliot Schwartz by Richard Milazzo
- From Bondage, Part I: Chapter 5 by Henry Roth
- Our Music Lesson #2, Or How We Appropriated You: An Imaginary Short Starring Elvis Chang, Rocky Rivera, and Jimi Hendrix by Jessica Hagedorn
- Two Poems by Joe Osterhaus
- John Laub by John Ashbery
- From Not-a-Superhero #8, August ’94, issue: Transformed! by Luca Buvoli
First Proof
- Timothy Britten Parker by Ron Rifkin
- Actors by Susan Shacter
- Beth Nugent by Patrick McGrath
- Mervyn Taylor by Kelvin Christopher James
- Mark Tambella by Roberto Juarez
- Graham Swift by Betsy Sussler
- Linda Hill by Anney Bonney
- Howard Shore by Amos Poe
- Helena Kriel by Roland Legiardi-Laura
- James Nares by Glenn O'Brien
- Ralph Hamilton by Robert Polito
- Steven Parrino by Olivier Mosset
- Mauro Restiffe by Allen Frame
- Jim Shepard by Amy Hempel
- Ben Kinmont by Bill Arning
- Steve Earle & Iggy Pop by Lynn Geller
- Erin Parish by Donna Tartt
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka & R.Z. Linmark by Jessica Hagedorn
- Per Maning by Marvin Heiferman
Editor's Choice
Luca Buvoli, Pages from Not-a-Superhero #8, August ‘94 issue: Transformed!, india ink and pencil on paper. All images courtesy of John Weber Gallery, New York.
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Baum’s work unearths and explores the incidental poetry of UFO sightings, dog-eared paperbacks, and obsolete artifacts like card catalogs.
Painting that boils down shapes.
Originally published in
BOMB 56,
Summer 1996
Featuring interviews with Martha Plimpton, Irvine Welsh, Jeffrey Vallance, Nick Pappas, Mark Eitzel, Lee Breuer, Ornette Coleman, Cheick Oumar Sissoko, Janwillem van de Wetering, and Ada Gay Griffin & Michelle Parkerson on Audre Lorde.
