Nikki Darling- July 2025
Nikki Darling holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from USC. Her debut novel, Fade Into You, was published by Feminist Press in 2018. Nikki Darling’s music criticism and essays appear regularly in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, KCET Artbound, and others.
Nikki Darling holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from USC. Her debut novel, Fade Into You, was published by Feminist Press in 2018. Nikki Darling’s music criticism and essays appear regularly in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, KCET Artbound, and others.
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Jessica Lanay- July 2025
Jessica Lanay is an interdisciplinary writer and a collagist. Her work can be found in publications such as BOMB Magazine, Art Review, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, and many others. Lanay's writing often emerges from an intersection of grief, intimacy, curiosity, and the study of the overlaps between design and writing.
Jessica Lanay is an interdisciplinary writer and a collagist. Her work can be found in publications such as BOMB Magazine, Art Review, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, and many others. Lanay's writing often emerges from an intersection of grief, intimacy, curiosity, and the study of the overlaps between design and writing.
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Lauren Fensterstock- May-June 2025
Lauren Fensterstock creates elaborate sculptures and installations that explore the evolving history of our relationship to a physical and metaphysical landscape.
Lauren Fensterstock creates elaborate sculptures and installations that bind our physical and metaphysical landscapes. Extravagant in their material presence and devotional labor, her work commands the eye to the present moment to bring attention to embodied experience. Lauren's work has been shown internationally including The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Reykjavik Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Chrysler Museum, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Rijswijk Museum, and Des Moines Art Center. Lauren has been awarded grants from United States Artists, Groot Foundation, and Artist's Resource Trust. She is a Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Lauren Fensterstock, "The totality of time lusters the dusk”, 2020, mixed media, Courtesy Claire Oliver Gallery. Photo by Ron Blunt.
Jamele Wright, Sr. - May-June 2025
Jamele Wright, Sr. is a multi–disciplinary artist. He is concerned with the Black American vernacular experience. He is interested in found materials, and textile practices such as sewing, batik, and hand dyeing. His work continues the lineage of African American abstractionists during abstract expressionism, as well as Landscape artists. His work is in a dialog between family, tradition, and the spiritual and material relationship between Africa and the South.
Born and raised in Ohio, at the age of 22 Jamele Wright, Sr. moved with his family to Atlanta, Georgia. While raising a family Jamele produced art, jazz, and poetry events throughout Atlanta. Realizing that there were many young artists not being represented he started a gallery called Neo Renaissance Art House. After curating the gallery for over a year Jamele was inspired to pursue his own artistic career. After a number of solo and group exhibitions Mr. Wright graduated from Georgia State University with a B.A. in Art History. He concentrated on African and African American Contemporary Art. Jamele graduated with Master of Fine Art from School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York. He completed a residency at MASS MoCA, and Vermont Studio Center as well as artist in resident at Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC. He currently maintains his practice in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Jamele Wright. Sr., "ReBORN #2”, mixed media, Ga. red clay on Dutch wax cloth, 60” x 96”.
iris yirei hu- May-June 2025
iris yirei hu is a journey-based artist who expresses her lived and dreamt experiences through paintings, textiles, installations, intercultural collaborations, writing, and public art. Her work proposes imaginative ways to reconstruct oneself and expands ways of relating to one another amidst the historical and ongoing effects of imperialism across the world.
Photo by Leah Rom
iris yirei hu is a multidisciplinary journey-based artist from Los Angeles who works across paintings, installations, intercultural collaborations, writing, and public art.
She roots her art practice in processes of material and spiritual transformation, as evidenced in labor intensive pieces and installations that explore the subterranean realms of grief and loss, cycles of life and death, the earthly and the otherworldly, and the infinitely evolving self. Central to her practice is learning from and working across territories and peoples, through which she investigates how geography, kinship, and the sacred are reflected in cultural technologies and ecological practices. Her work intimately probes the sentience in the natural world and the vulnerability in human connection across cultural, geographic, and generational differences, through which she creates imaginative ways to understand oneself and proposes relational and open-ended pathways towards solidarity.
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Detail from The transmission of the heart wisdom (universe), 2024.
Photo by Angel Xotlanihua
Louis Bury - April-May 2025
Louis Bury is an art writer, author of The Way Things Go and Exercises in Criticism, and Professor of English at Hostos Community College, CUNY.
Louis Bury is an art writer, author of The Way Things Go and Exercises in Criticism, and Professor of English at Hostos Community College, CUNY.
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Stacy Pratt - April-May 2025
Stacy Pratt is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. A poet, art writer, and musician, she primarily writes for First American Art Magazine.
Stacy Pratt is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. A poet, art writer, and musician, she primarily writes for First American Art Magazine.