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As I See It by Mark Scala: UNWEAVING RACE

Sonya Clark and Progressive Disassembly by Mark W. Scala Richmond, Virginia-based artist Sonya Clark creates immaculately crafted woven constructions that use the tactile associations of fibers and optical ...

Sigalit Landau and the Israel Paradox

Applied Arts, As I See It, Columns, Featured, Film & TV, News

by Mark W. Scala In many of her sculptures, videos, and performances, Israeli artist Sigalit Landau shows the body as a graceful bridge between the buoyant and liberating expansiveness of the sea and the heavy...

Sarah Anne Johnson: House on Fire

As I See It, Columns, Photography, Visual Arts

As I See It Artist Sarah Anne Johnson Explores the Public Meaning Behind Private Pain by Mark W. Scala Burning, 2009, Acrylic and graphite on inkjet, 9" x 10" In previous articles, I focused on the con...

The Enclave: War in Eastern Congo

As I See It, Columns, Events, Exhibitions, Featured, Installations, Photography, Visual Arts

Richard Mosse, Vintage Violence, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2011, Digital c-print, 40” x 50” Invisibility and Ethics by Mark W. Scala Richard Mosse’s The Enclave (2013) is an immersive video environment t...

The Little Black Box, Part II

As I See It, Columns

by Mark W. Scala As discussed last month, “the black box” is often a tabula rasa onto which we can project our fears, desires, and imaginings. For scientists and engineers, the black box is a term for a devi...

The Killing Machine

As I See It, Columns, Installations, Visual Arts

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s The Killing Machine by Mark W. Scala The Canadian collaborators Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller employ video, robotics, and sound in constructions that raise qu...

As I See It: Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat

As I See It, Columns, Featured, Painting, Visual Arts

Johannes Vermeer, Girl with the Red Hat, c. 1665/1666, Oil on panel, 9 ⅛” x 7 ⅛” . Courtesy of National Gallery of Art Good Things Come in Small Packages An exhibition titled Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Verm...

The Peaceable Kingdom, Now More Than Ever

As I See It, Columns, Featured, Painting, Visual Arts

Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom, c. 1833, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24” . Worcester Art Museum (MA) Between 1822 and his death in 1849, Edwards Hicks painted over a hundred variations of his famous Peaceable...

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