Issue 148
We are proud to present four powerful portfolios in Issue 148. Megan Bent creates chlorophyll prints on leaves, vivid and fragile objects that ask us to reflect on the visualization of both disability and nature. Chrissie Dalziel, The Earl of Birds, reclaims Ophelia from Hamlet, building out her visual propositions around the quiet waterways of London, evoking an unquiet sadness in rich beauty. Adam Nadel, in his artist residency at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, exposed photographic paper to the electron particle accelerator, producing abstract geometric images that connect color field painting with historical conversations about photography’s standing as art and technology. Tabitha Soren’s Surface Tension, published as a book this month by RVB Books, meditates on the tension between our human need for contact and the overwhelming heavily-mediated world that we inhabit.
Each of these bodies of work carves out its own space to reframe essential questions and ideas in original and provocative ways. We invite you to spend time with each of them, and to learn more about the artists.
The August Charcoal Book Club book is Black Diamonds by Rich-Joseph Facun and the September book is Haddon Hall by Naomi Harris.
Drop us a line, we’d love to hear what you think!
Leo Hsu and Bree Lamb
Managing Editors
