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
Portfolio by Laura Bruce
- Milford Graves by Aakash Mittal
- Celeste Dupuy-Spencer by Katherine Cooper
- Meredith Monk and Jim Hodges
- Lucy Dodd by Rashid Johnson
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkins by Hilton Als
- Jlin by Jibade-Khalil Huffman
- Cate Giordano by Amy Ruhl
- Don Mee Choi and Christian Hawkey
- Friederike Mayröcker by Jonathan Larson
Interviews
- Tuli Kupferberg’s YEAH by Michael Blair
- Peter Funch’s 42nd and Vanderbilt by Gideon Jacobs
- Roland Kayn’s A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound by Keith Fullerton Whitman
- Kate Briggs’s This Little Art by Carlos Fonseca
- Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s And Yet My Mask Is Powerful by Lynn Maliszewski
- Myriam Gurba’s Mean by Lauren LeBlanc
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Beam, 2017, graphite on paper, 40 × 27.5 inches. Images courtesy of the artist.
Twig, Leaf, Petal, 2015, graphite on paper, 61 × 44.5 inches.
After, 2017, graphite on paper, 40 × 27.5 inches.
Follow the Train Tracks, 2015, graphite on paper, 61 × 44.5 inches.
Lisa, 2017, graphite on paper, 40 × 27.5 inches.
Moth, 2016, graphite on paper, 61 × 44.5 inches.
Artist Laura Bruce was born in New Jersey and has lived in Berlin since 1990. Most recently, her work has been included in Passion: Fan Behavior and Art at the Ludwig Museum, Budapest, and small things:good things at Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin.
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Two drawings, Working Drawing and Jug and Dish, and two earthenware jug and dish sets by Andrew Lord.
Originally published in
BOMB 142,
Winter 2018
Featuring interviews with Milford Graves, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Meredith Monk, Jim Hodges, Lucy Dodd, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jlin, Cate Giordano, Don Mee Choi, Christian Hawkey, and Friederike Mayröcker.
