Tag: mortality

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John Kelly: A FRIEND GAVE ME A BOOK at PPOW 

I walked into the PPOW gallery the morning my friend Riki died. The 182-panel illustrated small drawings by New York artist John Kelly, which extend as an open graphic memoir around the gallery, captured me instantly, letting me in on a personal journey of mortality, pain, and beauty. There was something generous in the way Kelly handed his notebook and shared the manuscript of his injury. It resonated with my thoughts of investigating and dwelling on mourning and mortality. 

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Everything Ends Eventually: Precious Objects for Eschatonic Times

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R+R artists’ paths converged during their 2019 residency at Millay Arts. United by their passion for sculpture and approach to life, they became fast friends committed to keeping their long-distance friendship going. E.E.E. is their inaugural project, for which they were awarded an LMCC Creative Engagement Award. Through their curatorial project, they aim to foster community by merging their NY/Miami worlds. As artists, they felt strongly about producing in-person experiences and giving their peers autonomy over their narratives—”Real people, real objects, real connections.” They envision E.E.E. to be more than just a group show.  It is a home base where, for two weeks, they host events and set up communal artwork. “We hope the show will be the first step in an ongoing dialogue that does not end when the exhibition doors close,” said the show curators, Rina AC Dweck and Richard Moreno.

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Gail Winbury – Day by Day

In her diverse series of paintings and collages Gail Winbury expresses reflections on love, identity, feminism, aging, and mortality –  with psychological and emotional resonance. For Art Spiel she elaborates on her formative experiences as an artist, her work practice, and thought process.

Gail Winbury, Mixed Media Collage: oil paint on canvas and paper, sumi ink on vellum, a piece of acrylic on canvas from Jim Fliess, pearls, magazine, enamel paint on paper on Bristol Board, 24″ x 19″, 2016. Photo by Peter Jacobs

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