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Interview with Beverly Buchanan

Angela Son — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:43:04 +0000

Throughout her three-decade long artistic career, Beverly Buchanan has painted and sculpted wooden shacks of the American South. Her latest exhibition, All in the Family, celebrated its opening last Friday at GalleryDAAS at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, featuring a series of Buchanan’s structures and paintings. Buchanan was born in North Carolina but grew up in [&hellip

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Tell it like it is: the art of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

Angela Son — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:57:00 +0000

A few years ago, the Seoul-based web art collaborative, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) released their controversial Cunnilingus in North Korea, choosing to discuss South Korea’s northern neighbor from an unusual angle: sexual freedom through communism. “LONG LIVE NORTH KOREAN CUNNILINGUS! LONG LIVE NORTH KOREAN COMMUNISM! LONG LIVE NORTH KOREAN SEXUAL EQUALITY!” states YHCHI at [&hellip

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Armonia Celeste: Bringing Back Baroque

Angela Son — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:31:27 +0000

Did you know that women were not allowed to sing in public until the 16th century? Early music ensemble Armonia Celeste was created to remind listeners of this important development in history. Modeled after the first all-female ensemble of professional singers, Concerto delle Donne, Armonia Celeste brings back an early era of music that tremendously [&hellip

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Project Photo shoot with Patricia Izzo

Angela Son — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:25:05 +0000

“I’m not interested in matching the colors of your couch with my fine art photography,” said Patricia Izzo, a black-and-white film photographer. Truthful and blunt in her artistic style, Izzo is a firm believer of connecting with people (not people’s couches) through her art. Izzo wants people to have an emotional response when they look [&hellip

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Review of Detropia

Angela Son — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:01:06 +0000

In the 1930s, Detroit was the fastest growing city in the U.S., due mainly to the automobile boom and WWI production of airplanes and machines. 80 years later, this same city faced the fall of an industry after GM’s and Chrysler’s bailout by the U.S. government. Today, Detroit the fastest shrinking city. “The city is [&hellip

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A Sunny Artscapade with Street Photographer Yana Benjamin

Angela Son — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:57:50 +0000

Last Saturday afternoon, award-winning street photographer Yana Benjamin and Art Animal went on an “artscapade” on the streets of Ann Arbor, Mich. This experimental project was overlaid with the theme, Ubiquity of Urbanity. While walking the streets and stopping to snap pictures here and there, Benjamin and I discussed her childhood hobbies, artistic influences and favorite [&hellip

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Artist Elizabeth Busey’s “Connections: Linoleum Block Prints”

Angela Son — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:46:32 +0000

Spirals, swirls, ripples, horizontal lines. There’s a healing element when we look at the patterns of the nature. Water drops, a body of water, mountain ridges, leaves and flowers on artist Elizabeth Busey’s linoleum prints are semi-abstracted and reconstructed in a way that emphasize the flow of nature’s energy. Busey believes the nature of her [&hellip

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Interview with photographer Patricia Izzo

Angela Son — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:04:19 +0000

“When you lose almost every work of art that you created over 30 years,” photographer Patricia Izzo said, “including very personal items like the voice of my father telling jokes on a CD and all the artwork of my only daughter during her school years, you can go one way or another.” In 2011, a fire in her [&hellip

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Review of Judith Turner’s The Flatness of Ambiguity

Angela Son — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:11:53 +0000

Think of a time that you’ve been at an exhibition you’ve been meaning to check out for weeks: as you walk into the exhibition you admire the spotless, high ceiling and decide to work your way from the left wall around the room, keeping a regular distance from the artwork on the walls. You [&hellip

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Interview with Artist Kristine Campbell

Angela Son — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:51:36 +0000

The dress has long been a symbol representative of the female form. Why is it that a simple piece of clothing has been charged with such strong gender identification? After all, men oh-so graciously shared the privilege of wearing a nice pair of pants with women, but, alas, women never returned the favor; thus men are [&hellip

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