Angela Hennessy is an Oakland-based interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor at California College of the Arts, where she teaches courses on visual and cultural narratives of death and contemporary textile theory. Through writing, studio work, and performance her practice examines mythologies of blackness embedded in linguistic metaphors of color and cloth. Her current project, The […]
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Inaugural Collect For Change™ Exhibition Curated by Amy Kisch + Danielle Smith + Kimberly Verde + Heather Zises state space, San Francisco, CA Saturday, January 6 – Friday, February 16, 2018 AKArt and state are pleased to present Object Action: The “F” Word in a Post-Truth Era, to mark the inauguration of Collect For Change™—an initiative which collaborates with artists across disciplines, offering artwork with a
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Mollie McKinley is a Hudson Valley and New York based artist. Her work has been shown at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts; Field Projects, New York; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Anthology Film Archives; the MoMA Pop Rally; the New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 presented by Independent Curators International and Limited Time Only; four Brucennials;
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Carl Musa Hixson was born in Cleveland, Ohio but has mostly lived in Brooklyn, NY. He earned an MFA in Sculpture at Pratt Institute and a BA in Comprehensive Art from Hampton University. Hixson was selected as artist-in-residence at Wave Hill, Winter Workspace, Bronx, New York in 2015, at The 3-D foundation, Verbier Switzerland in
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Melissa Murray is a Brooklyn-based artist. She is “deeply inspired by psychoanalytics, her drawings are derived from the extensive logging of her dreams and sub-conscious experiences,” according to her interview in Company. “The unusual combinations of imagery she uses certainly render her work remeniscent of dreams and thought processes.” Her work been featured in The Village Voice, Juxtapoz Magazine,
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Dan Hawk is a Portland-based photographer who loves telling visual stories about how it feels to be in this place, at this moment, with these people. His style and approach are direct, clean, classic, and true; he likes authentic moments and beautiful natural light. Dan specializes in environmental portraits, creative space photography and headshots for people doing creative work. The idea
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Robert Saywitz is a visual storyteller. He creates his own graphic narratives in the form of original works on canvas, paper, and mixed media; art books; and graphic novels. He builds images infused with emotion, that communicate a magnification and intensification of our daily life experiences. Finding inspiration in his environment and the world of music,
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