SPOTLIGHT ON ARTIST JACLYN WRIGHT:
“Jaclyn Wright is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from the Midwest. Her work combines traditional analog photographic techniques with contemporary digital methods, performance, and installation. Wright is a recent recipient of the Collections Engagement Grant awarded by the J. Willard Marriott Library and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts as part of their funded initiative Land Art, Landscape, and the American West. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography & Digital Imaging at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and published widely.
SPOTLIGHT ON ARTIST GLENDALYS MEDINA:
“Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx, most of the symbols in Medina’s work are drawn from cultural vernacular that swirls around her history and daily life, from the cadence of hip-hop rhymes to the fluid signatures of graffiti writers, or traditional Taíno motifs.”
- 12 Emerging Latinx Artists to Discover via Artsy.net
SPOTLIGHT ON ARTIST HIESTER REID:
“Hiester Reid’s sensitive, Tonalist paintings of flowers and trees sold at a fraction of her husband’s large narrative works, and she appeared much less frequently in exhibitions and the press. She left no diaries and few letters, but the lack of documentation doesn’t deter Peacock. Through extensive archival research and perceptive readings of Hiester Reid’s paintings, she convincingly argues that the artist “made still lifes like diary pages and landscapes like dream logs.” In her time between North America and Europe, Hiester Reid witnessed the birth of modernism and the rise of abstraction, yet she remained steadfast in her own artistic vision. Far from seeming fussy or outdated, Hiester Reid’s modestly scaled, soft-stroked pictures of drooping flowers and hushed night scenes still carry a poignant psychological charge.”
SPOTLIGHT ON ARTIST RABIA FAROOQUI:
Rabia Farooqui creates crisp, enigmatic figurative paintings with gouache and wasli paper, the traditional substrate that is known for its use in Mughal miniature painting. Her works, which often picture finely rendered people atop brilliant, monochromatic backdrops, explore tensions between contemporary society and cultural traditions.
Check out more of her work at:
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/rabia-farooqui-flatter-me-while-i-wait
SPOTLIGHT ON ARTIST LYDIA OKUMURA:
If you have some problem in your life, you can manage it by putting it into some form, with materials that represent what you’re thinking. I use such simple materials, but it’s enough for whatever you’re fighting inside.” – Lydia Okumura
Check out more of her work at: http://www.lydiaokumura.com/
SPOTLIGHT ON ARTIST ROCHELLE CLARKE:
To be an Artist to me is to see and document what others don’t see. It is to speak when other are unable to. It is to bend things others see as a straight line. It is creating community where you were once an outcast. – Rochelle Clarke
Check out more of her work at: www.rochellecreative.co.uk
and : www.instagram.com/rochellecreative
SPOTLIGHT ON ARTIST BEVERLY Y. SMITH:
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. –
Twyla Tharp
Check out more of her work at www.beverlyysmithart.com
SPOTLIGHT ON ARTIST APRIL BEY:
To be an artist to me is to stay alive. It keeps me breathing on this planet. – April Bey
Check out more of her work at www.aprilbey.com
SPOTLIGHT ON ARTIST LAVETT BALLARD:
I work with wood because it is a living example of history, within each of its rings. My use of Fences is a symbolic reference to how fences keep people in and out, just as racial and gender identities can do the same socially. As an Artist, I feel a responsibility to my ancestors to be the creative visual storyteller for lives lost, forgotten, & ignored. And, to represent those lives to those that never cared about them to afford a greater appreciation of the contributions from my community. – Lavett Ballard
Check out more of her work at www.LavettBeArt.com;
SPOTLIGHT ON FIBER ARTIST SHERRY SHINE:
Telling the African American story through quilts – Sherry Shine
Check out more of her work on Instagram: @sherry_shinefiberart
