I know that I’m depressed, sensitive, and selfish. I’m just determined to do this thing, which is paint in solitude, and I will burn bridges to do it, including relationships.
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Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Portfolio by Dawn Clements
- Rest in Paradise, Jonas Mekas by Marianne Shaneen
- El Cine Quema: The Films of Raymundo Gleyzer by Will Noah
- Beatriz Colomina’s X-Ray Architecture by Ashley Simone
- Abbigail N. Rosewood’s If I Had Two Lives by Yasmin Roshanian
- Frederic Tuten’s My Young Life by Thomas Bolt
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- Titus Kaphar by Jason Stanley
- Young Joon Kwak by Charles Long
- Kazuo Hara by Ken Jacobs
- Bill Jenkins by Joe Fyfe
- Ligia Lewis by Catherine Damman
- William Basinski by Lea Bertucci
- José Roberto Cea by Daniel Flores y Ascencio
- Barry Lopez by Taylor Larsen
Interviews
- Portfolio by Dawn Clements
- Hardening by Danielle Sosin
- A Throw of the Dice by Lucy Ives
- The Genuine Alacrity of Things by Evelyn Hampton
- Bernard: A Character Study by Peter Orner
- Settler/Unsettled by Oliver Baez Bendorf
- Three Poems by Timothy Donnelly
- from rose miniatures by Navid Sinaki
- Unreadable Comic by Tsukue Akimoto
First Proof
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Journal
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2 Tables in My Kitchen, 2014, ballpoint pen and ink on paper, 92 × 53 inches. Images courtesy of the artist and Pierogi Gallery.
Jessica Bourne’s Bedroom (“East Side, West Side,” 1949), 2012, sumi ink on paper, 62 × 289 inches. Photos by Paul Latislaw.
Dawn Clements (1958–2018) was an artist based in Brooklyn. Her paintings and drawings captured her immediate surroundings as well as architectural interiors from films. She created fragmented narratives and panoramic tableaus by gluing together multiple paper panels. In the artist’s words: “I explore intersections where the objective and subjective, truth and fiction, rational and emotive meet. In some works, I paint/draw a continuous space that passes from inside the studio and out into the landscape. Playing with processes involving interruption, cuts, skips, and extensions, I work to see how static images might express time passage through gradual and abrupt shifts in perspective, light, palette, mark, and gesture.” (2017)
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The paintings in HumidGray and ShadowLake evoke synesthetic colors, remembered landscapes, and the physical performance inherent in marking a canvas.
An embarrassing incident at the Kremlin (from 2015? was it 2016?): in which women invited to an International Woman’s Day photo with Mr. Vladimir Putin arrive in high heels, much to the fear of Mr. Putin’s staff who are there to witness several tall women towering over the Russian Federation president.
These drawings are from a series of 210 on view at the Graham Foundation in Chicago as part of Torkwase Dyson and the Wynter-Wells School through July 28, 2018.
Originally published in
BOMB 147,
Spring 2019
Featuring interviews with Young Joon Kwak, Kazuo Hara, Bill Jenkins, Ligia Lewis, William Basinski, Titus Kaphar, José Roberto Cea, and Barry Lopez.
