Billie Zangewa: Wings of Change

By Ann C. Collins

NOV 2020 | ArtSeen

Parenthood is essentially a temporary arrangement, but one that can provide an abundance of joy even in the most ordinary moments. Billie Zangewa refines this muddle of emotion in eight fabric collages that make up her current exhibition.

Can’t Look Away: Ben Ehrenreich’s Desert Notebooks

By Erika Howsare

JUL-AUG 2020 | Books

Western culture has viewed time as a linear march toward the future—a narrative with a solid beginning in classical antiquity and a foreseeable end, or at least a goal: an ideal society based on reason and achieved via technical advancement. It’s this “faith in progress” that Ehrenreich wants to attack.

Object of Reverence: Natalie Erika James’s Relic

By Gina Telaroli

SEPT 2020 | Film

While so many modern horror films rely on scares in the form of grotesque violence—the fear residing less in the audiovisual construction of the scene and more in the idea of torture, dismemberment, impending death—James puts her faith in the unexplained crinkle of a plastic dry-cleaning bag hanging in a closet.

Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo

By Susan Breyer

MAY 2020 | ArtSeen

One work in the final gallery contains the image of a small pink cross, above which Centurión embroidered the phrase, “renazco a cada instante,” “I am reborn at every moment” (1995). To feel renewed in deep crisis by faith, creation, and love. To be carried forward by small joys, to allow these joys the fullness and purity of our appreciation. This is art, personified.