A project organized by Kalup Linzy

For this particularly challenging year, we’ve asked Elisa Gabbert, Amelia Gray, Myriam Gurba, Jessica Lanay, Greg Mania, Lydia Millet, Lara Mimosa Montes, Rakesh Satyal, Asiya Wadud, Charles Yu, and C Pam Zhang to tell us what sustained them.

For this particularly challenging year, we’ve asked Kaneza Schaal, Simone Forti, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Christiane Jatahy, Tina Satter, and Jibz Cameron to tell us what sustained them.

For this particularly challenging year, we’ve asked Garrett Bradley, Courtney Stephens, Alex Strada, Ephraim Asili, Nicholas Elliott, Mary Lucier, Tania Cypriano, Alan Licht, and Nina Menkes to tell us what sustained them.

For this particularly challenging year, we’ve asked IONE, Lea Bertucci, Craig Taborn, Mary Halvorson, Felicia Atkinson, Miho Hatori, and Matana Roberts to tell us what sustained them.

For this particularly challenging year, we’ve asked Maria Thereza Alves, Carolina Caycedo, Jennie C. Jones, Alan Michelson, Jordan Nassar, Vick Quezada, Jacolby Satterwhite, Hiba Schahbaz, Diana Thater, and Dyani White Hawk to tell us what sustained them.

Pressurized states of being and strategies of survival.

In May, BOMB asked artists how COVID-19 and quarantine were affecting their creative process. How were they making art now?

“Project”(a poster included in issue #153) features a double-sided image, a hand-lettered slogan on one side and an archival film montage of activist and politician Stacey Abrams on the other.

In May, BOMB asked artists how COVID-19 and quarantine were affecting their creative process. How were they making art now?

In Mark McKnight’s photographs, the material of the terrestrial world merges with a celestial aspect. Dark bodies, asphalt, oily birds, decomposing stone, and dimpled flesh all radiate from a field of tarry shadow.

A selection of daguerreotypes, micro-photographs, and film stills by two artists.

Heaps of plenitude.

More than.

Alejandro Almanza Pereda lives and works between the United States and Mexico. Known for precariously balanced large-scale sculptures that put common objects into unlikely configurations, he exhibits internationally and has had solo shows at the San Francisco Art Institute; Rubin Center, El Paso; El Eco Experimental Museum, Mexico City; College of Wooster Art Museum, Ohio; and Art in General, New York.