On the occasion of her follow up solo exhibition to You're Doing Amazing Sweetie, Christin Graham details the evolution within Rojas' latest work. Sharing perspectives and unique insight, Graham explores the remarkable depth to Rojas' newest show Felt Cute, Might Delete Later.
Sam Trioli spoke with Mark Flood and Preston Douglas in the lead up to Douglas’ online viewing room launch, TENSION // HANGING ON. The two artists share a unique connection, both artistically, as friends, fellow Texans, and collaborators in their two-person exhibition at PRP in Dallas TX, titled Stretcher Barbecue.
Brooklyn based artist, Bradford Willingham sat down with Sam Trioli to discuss his two part online viewing room, Moiré Vowing (Part I) and Lies are Sewn, Lips are Known (Part II). In these two series of works, Willingham transferred the first iteration’s physical line drawings into digital vectors and then colored them into a muted flat pop aesthetic. The imagery and prints themselves evolve and expand from one series to the next, providing a documented evolution within the work itself.
In concurrence with LAUNCH F18’s online viewing room, Stonebreakers, Marissa Graziano prompted the group of seventeen artists who are featured within the exhibition to answer one of four questions in dialogue with Gustave Courbet. Their responses offer a thoughtful insight into each of their studio practices and highlight the differing aspects of their work in relation to contemporary realism.
On the occasion of her debut solo exhibition with the gallery, Meena Hasan sat down with Christin Graham to discuss her new body work she created for Mangiferin Chintz. Featuring a selection of over fifteen new paintings, Hasan shares her creative process, ideas behind the new work, and personal connections to the subject matter of this incredible new series of work.
For this special series we invited Brooklyn and Memphis based photographer, Tommy Kha to share with us his summertime soundtrack. Here, Kha curated a selection of songs that have carried him through his hometown of Memphis, TN and connected with early childhood memories and everything that follows.
In connection with Bobby Davidson's online Viewing Room,Parasitic Capacitance, F18 Magazine is excited to feature the artist's own writings discussing this expansive new body of work. Exploring themes of technology, relationships and the human experience, Davidson has formed a collection of works that conceptually and aesthetically address the complexity of our current moment in history.
In the spring of 2020 Joy Drury Cox, Erika Mahr and Sam Trioli began a conversation that casually carried on throughout the course of nearly a year. Weaving in and out a multitude of events in life and the world at large, the conversation between the three of them captured a moment not only within their own artwork, but the meaning of that work in this moment in time.
Brooklyn based artist, Insil Jang sat down with Christin Graham to discuss her recent online viewing room,A Hyphenated Identity. Marked within the layers of Insil Jang’s printmaking practice is a haunting and remarkable observation of human conflict. This unique presentation features a selection of recent paintings, celebrating the highly detailed and technically skilled work from the artist.
As part of Senem Oezdogen's recent exhibition, The Night Paintings, Marissa Graziano sat down with the artist to look further into her influences, and in depth perspective into painting. Oezdogen is a Brooklyn based artist who works to create original paintings that look beyond the medium itself.
In connection with Noah Becker's online Viewing Room, A Landing Field: Selected Paintings 2019-2020, art critic and poet Donald Kuspit explores the incredible depth and reflection within Becker's newest body of work.
Many of Noah Becker‘s paintings are presented as landscapes but landscapes of a peculiarly distinc- tive kind. He isn’t capturing the raw, natural world nor is he responding to the life of a city. The spaces he paints, with their grasslands, the trees, which are alone, in small groves or woods, and the single story buildings, are indeterminate, but they don’t have the vibe of a suburb.
