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Ahmed Alsoudani with Ann C. Collins

Ahmed Alsoudani’s work carries memories of trauma and the loneliness of exile. His distinctive vocabulary throws viewers into spaces roiling with the complications of being as shapes and colors struggle to co-exist. Settling in to look at his work, I find that the initial shock of his imagery softens as the familiarity of his forms elicits a feeling I can only describe as a deep empathy, a recognition of our collective state.

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Ashley Bickerton with Dan Cameron

Ever since bursting onto the scene during the East Village’s so-called Neo-Geo wave during the last half of the 1980s, Ashley Bickerton has tended to be the odd man out relative to the generation with which he is invariably compared. Although his early works were eye-popping and futuristically slick, Bickerton wasn’t especially interested in theories of appropriation or simulation, nor was he seduced by the doctrine of banality.

Art In Conversation

Baseera Khan with Lee Ann Norman

Baseera Khan works across media from painting and photography to installation, performance, and sculpture to explore the tensions inherent in living in a capitalist society. Through explorations of material—including their own body—Khan makes plain how notions of economy, labor, goods and services, and art itself often serve as rich sites for exploring our accumulated histories, experiences, and individual and collective traumas. Their current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum invites us to imagine alternate sites that allow us to refuse empire and resist domination, so we might discover a feeling of liberation instead of exploitation.

Art In Conversation

Jeff Wall with Barry Schwabsky

Since the late 1970s, Jeff Wall has become renowned for his staged photographs—sometimes fantastical, sometimes so factually convincing as to be what he’s called “near documentary.” He currently has two exhibitions on view, one of them being a survey—his largest US show since his 2007 MoMA survey—at Glenstone Museum, in Potomac, MD; the other at Gagosian in Beverly Hills. Having written an essay for the catalogue of the show at Glenstone, I realized I’d ended up with more questions than I started with, so I asked a few of them in a Zoom conversation with the artist ahead of his show in California.

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From the Publisher & Artistic Director

Dear Friends and Readers,

By Phong Bui

What have we all learned in the last five years as we’ve been getting through a slow recovery process from two profound ruptures: one being the pandemic that has taken thus far over 800,000 lives in the US and 5.6 million worldwide, and the other being the near collapse of our democracy that led to the infamous Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, which most of us would agree was a result of post Cold-War complacency in Washington.

Editor's Message Guest Critic

Printmaking: Intentions and Aspirations

By Ruth Fine

This project developed from a conversation between Phong Bui and myself about art in the United States since what has long been referred to as the mid-20th century “Print Renaissance,” and my belief in the critica impact of printmaking on artists’ work in other media.

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