Paul Mendez’s Rainbow Milk

By Tony Leuzzi

MARCH 2021 | Books

Distinguished by its gritty realism, Rainbow Milk is among the more convincing debuts I have read in years.

23. 1950-1992, Spain

By Raphael Rubinstein

OCT 2022 | The Miraculous

Leaves school at 12 to sing in the streets
for coins that buy bread, milk and cigarettes. At 16, departs his isla for Málaga and the Taberna Gitana. A few months later he’s in Madrid

Steeped in Spilled Milk pt.2

By Dana Notine

JUNE 2022 | ArtSeen

Steeped is defiant and elegant in its selection of varied media, united by simultaneous delicacy and strength; a complex and individualized breed of alterity riddled with conflicting experiences of both pleasure and pain, love and hatred, danger and desire.

Elle Pérez with Ksenia M. Soboleva

JUL-AUG 2022 | Art

Elle Pérez locates intimacy that moves beyond bodily matter. Ranging from portraiture to landscape, their photographs capture the lived experience of bodies and nature, the transformations that occur across time and space. The distinct configurations in which Pérez presents their work in exhibition spaces offer a glimpse into the artist’s thought process, allowing the viewer into their creative constellation. I had the pleasure of being in conversation with Pérez on the occasion of their exhibition Devotions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as their inclusion in this year’s Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams. We spoke about their introduction to photography, its malleable qualities, and the ways in which thinking about gender has taken a backseat. Pérez generously described the process around Devotions, as well as the photographs in the Biennale, taking me on a journey to Puerto Rico and their first visit back after Hurricane Maria.