Feature’s smaller scale, its individualization of gallery space, its tour guides and gallery reps wiling to explain intricacies of material or content, allowed this type of quieter work to stand out.
I strongly feel that is also can be a very open relationship being both a feminist and a Christian, especially in our times. I think that the best way for me to think about it is as the quest for equality
It is a departure from his earlier style as natural and organic forms play an equally important role as urban motifs. The artist contemplates subjects as diverse as the universe’s passage of time all the way to the simple pleasure of the lakeside.
In creating the work for the show, my intention was to use those techniques and designs I had learned in Sri Lanka and re-contextualize and re-vitalize them.
Joseph Hartman has created a beautiful and technically masterful series of photographs, one that not only reminds us of our near-obsession with artists and their creative processes, but that also raises questions, as all interesting art does
The sculptures manage to combine elements of imagination and reality well while challenging the spectator to perceive the world with innocence and to be receptive to the possibility of the unimaginable.