about this issue | Women
about this issue | Women artcore journal Vol. 2, Issue 1: Women IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Letter artcore journal’s editor’s letter Lead Essay Sarah Sze’s Random Walk-Drawing: an Encounter … Continue reading
Thoughts on Reverberation in the Work of Jane Fox Hipple by Erin Dziedzic
In works by Jane Fox Hipple from 2009-2011, viewers were drawn inward by distinct holes or nails run-through the rectilinear surfaces. These distinct marks and blemishes punctuated surfaces of works … Continue reading
Editors’ Letter | Women
When artcore journal decided on the theme of “women” for its third issue we speculated on what we would receive for submissions: essays on Feminist art, topics on women’s inclusion … Continue reading
Ann-Marie Manker by Kayti Doolittle
“Jenny” wore a red-polka dotted dress suitable for the Sunday school I attended long ago in Kansas City. She didn’t look like Julia Roberts from Pretty Woman. And she certainly … Continue reading
Victoria Fu: Blurring Lines Between Visual Arts and Cinema by Rana Edgar
Women have played a pivotal role throughout the history of experimental film genre. In the 1940s and 1950s celebrated filmmaker Maya Deren shaped American avant-garde cinema and in the 1970s … Continue reading
Academic to Entertainer: The Changing Role of the Curator by Erinn Roos-Brown
There has been a great deal of chatter in recent years about the “death of the curator.” This opinion is fueled by change in focus of cultural institutions to be … Continue reading
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story: Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle Marry A Mountain by Corinne Van Houten
What do pornography, bosoms, and lesbian feminism have in common with mountain top removal mining? The answer is Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, performance artists whose mission, as artists, as lovers, … Continue reading
Surrender to Something Dangerous: A Conversation Between Artists Nancy Davidson and Nene Humphrey, June 2013
Over the last few years we’ve shared our mutual interest in performance by exploring works by artists at multiple experimental performance venues around New York City like the Chocolate Factory … Continue reading
Martha Rosler: The Body Beautiful by Jovana Stokic
This essay explores Martha Rosler’s crucial engagement with media and consumer focused a critique of representations of female beauty since the late 1960s and early 70s and is published in-part … Continue reading
Alison Elizabeth Taylor Brings It to the Table by Melissa Messina
Since earning an M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2005, New York-based artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor has developed an idiosyncratic and subversive employment of a long out-dated hobbyist’s technique called marquetry, … Continue reading
Sarah Sze’s Random Walk-Drawing: an Encounter With The Hyperreal by Leonie Bradbury
To the famous categories of the real, the symbolic and the imaginary, it is going to be necessary to add the hyperreal, which captures and obstructs the functioning of the … Continue reading
New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Chakaia Booker by Rana Edgar
Booker is known for her adaptive reuse of discarded industrial materials—rubber tires, wood, metal—to create intricately assembled sculptural works. The New York Avenue Sculpture Project is an outdoor public art … Continue reading
William Corwin In Conversation with Lynda Benglis and Susan Richmond, Author of Beyond Process
Lynda Benglis’ exhibition Everything Flows (1980–2013) on view at Philadelphia’s Locks Gallery (May 16–June 29, 2013) presented a wide range of works including classic metalized pleated pieces as well as … Continue reading
Hildegard Westerkamp: A Pioneer in Sound Art and Perceptual Appreciation by Sophie Arkette
Events reported by the ear Are soft or loud, not far or near, In what is heard we only sense Transition and impermanence: A bark, a laugh, a rifle-shot, These … Continue reading
TO SELVES: Joy Episalla and Susan Silas
Joy Episalla is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the interstices of photography, video, and sculpture. She is interested in the mutability of still and moving images as they play out … Continue reading
