Sarah Charlesworth: Image Language

By Robert C. Morgan

MAY 2020 | ArtSeen

The majority of what is presented at the Printed Matter exhibition is drawn from Charlesworth’s seemingly infinite collection of photographic imagery, taken from various sources in various working contexts. This exhibition represents the systemic basis of Charlesworth’s research and highlights the fundamental archival elements that define her life’s work.

Desire in Walking and Language

By Jenna Crowder

MAR 2020 | Critics Page

I love desire lines. These rebellious trails—worn paths across the land made by repeated, prolonged, and collective action—signify, for me, modes of subversion and refusal.

Portage Trails and Language, Walking and Communication

By Jessamine Batario

MAR 2020 | Editor's Message

Intellectuals love to walk in the woods. They reach a clearing and their minds clear, becoming receptive to the ideas that sprout on trees. The clearing I wait for signals the proximity of the next lake. Tall trees in my peripheral vision give way to an expanse of the most transparent lake water I’ve ever seen. The portage ends, I cast off my pack, I sit again.

Every Situation Calls for Its Own Language: Gilberto Perez′s The Eloquent Screen

By Nicholas Forster

OCT 2019 | Film

The process of identification is at the heart of Gilberto Perez’s posthumously published book The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film. Perez writes that audiences identify with more than characters, “we identify with an action, a situation, an emotion, a motive, an interest, a point of view, something the character represents.”