Tag: history
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Out of Many, One
George W. Bush is best known as the 43rd president of the United States. However, he was also a painter! On March 2, 2021, the George W. Bush Presidential Center revealed their newest exhibit, Out of Many, One. The exhibit featured 43 paintings of American citizens, each completed by former President Bush. However, what makes…
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Wael Shawky
Wael Shawky is an Egyptian playwright, filmmaker, composer, and artist known for his use of puppetry. Why puppets? To Shawky, they bring a sense of childlike wonder to potentially bleak stories, from lengthy historical epics to fresh contemporary anecdotes. As a result, Shawky has staged several, puppeteered recreations of these stories. He does so with…
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Minnie Adkins
Minnie Adkins is a Kentucky-born American folk artist known for her playful carvings of animals. For her contributions to folk art, Adkins’ work is displayed in books, music, and several galleries within and across her home state. She also appears in the Day in the Country folk art fair, which she co-founded with her husband…
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Asinnajaq
Asinnajaq is a Canadian Innuk artist, writer, filmmaker, and curator of Inuit art. In her work, she highlights the importance of human rights, community, and indigenous perspectives in representing different forms of beauty. How might these subjects come together in art? Like Cassi Nomada, the answer lies with the art historical canon, or the traditional…
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Hwanmin Jin
Hwanmin Jin is a South Korean ceramic artist. Although ceramics are not new to the realm of Korean art, Jin sprinkles originality into his work by blending tradition and modernity. In particular, Jin uses traditional Korean pottery-making methods to craft the base of the ceramic. He then uses an innovative”soap bubble” technique. The soap bubble…
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Yoshitomo Nara
Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist known for his distinct style and “big-headed” artworks. What is Nara’s style? It’s difficult to say, but we know he has a distinct set of inspirations – manga, Western and Japanese pop culture, and the innocence of youth in the children he paints. However, each of Nara’s painted children…
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Deniz Eroglu
Deniz Eroglu is a Danish-Turkish filmmaker, installation artist, and writer. Eroglu uses film to reveal the importance of “noticing” the world around us. You are always noticing things, no matter who you are, what you are thinking, or even what’s around you at that the time. You might notice the big picture or the smallest…
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Kei Ito
Kei Ito is a Japanese installation artist, conceptual photographer, and sculptor. Ito’s work is deeply rooted in the bombing of Hiroshima, which his late grandfather survived. Despite the generations that passed, the event inflicted heavy trauma upon the remainder of his family. As a result, a deep sense of intergenerational loss underlies much of Ito’s…
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Cassi Nomada
Cassi Nomada is a Mozambican painter currently living and working in Italy. Borrowing from magical realism, folklore, and photographic film-stills, Nomada’s artwork straddles dual ideologies to confront the art historical canon. What is art historical canon? Generally, the canon is the group of artworks, artists, and styles that historians and institutions have traditionally considered the…
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