In a recent exchange, I was able to get a sense of the work Peter Tresnan has currently been making and more intimately, a sense of his direction. An artist whose interests revolve around exploring identity politics and allegories, Tresnan’s paintings at once evoke a carefulness and affinity towards simplified visual language in order to […]
Above: Hewitt Callister’s painting palette in Berlin, 1989. The Material Fight and the Fortunate Few A painting should not come easily. If the surface lies there, smooth and obedient, waiting to be admired, then something has gone wrong. Art that submits too willingly to the artist’s will, or worse, to the audience’s expectations, has already […]
Above: Quilt by Lina Revere. The Trouble with Calling It Work I hesitate when I call art “work.” The word lands uncomfortably, as though I am slotting something intimate into an economic structure that was never meant to hold it. I use it anyway, because artists are workers, because I want to insist that making […]
Editors note: I’m pleased to announce that Lina Revere will join the Vantage Art Projects team as a writer and contributor of reviews and texts. We look forward to Lina’s poetic eye and generous spirit – Jennifer Mawby, Vantage Art Projects. My process – Lina REvere I would describe my writing style as conversational, deeply […]
Editors note: I’m pleased to announce that Hewitt Callister has agreed to become a regular contributor to Vantage Art Projects and will take on the challenge of writing about artists and their work. Here’s a statement about the position he comes from when approaching both the artworks and the person behind the works – Jennifer […]
Online March 2025. Collaboration, exchange, chance, and community organizing between artists are fundamental to Vantage Art Projects and connect our upcoming online exhibition to our curatorial DNA. Artists include: @zakariyaa.qadir @studio.shannon.blanton @hilaryldoyle @andy.andy.harris @a_rose_hunter @rayhwangart @natalielanese @jebediah_long @sophnajjar @tayanaumovich @denise__reichenbach @denarobertson_ @jenniferjeanmawby @xingyun_wang_art
Jennifer Tazewell Mawby and The Library of Babel: Speculative Archives in an Age of Digital Uncertainty. By Hewitt Callister. Jorge Luis Borges’ The Library of Babel (1941) is a nightmare of knowledge, an infinite archive where every possible book exists, yet meaning itself is lost in the sheer chaos of it all. The librarians, trapped […]
West Berlin in the ’80s was a city in limbo, cut off from the rest of the world, but alive in its own strange way. It was modern and decayed, a Western capital stranded in communist territory. The Wall loomed over everything, dividing the city into two nervous halves. Some neighbourhoods, especially near the Wall, […]
Charlotte Guirestante Ghomeshi is a visual artist based in Montreal who came of age in the Laurentides, an astonishingly beautiful, wilderness area of the Canadian province of Quebec. That early relationship to the wilderness remains integral in here work both in the attention given to the natural world and her use of themes related to […]
Written by Natalie Jauregui-Ortiz. A figure stands in a field, dressed in a scrambled assemblage of snakes. Twigs stick out, as the snakes cover nearly every part of the figure’s body, except for eyes and an orange hat with devilish horns that peek through an opening. The snakes have built a house around the body. […]
Written by Stephanie Eche. I first experienced Jenn Cacciola’s artwork via a Zoom screen during the fall of 2020. Having not seen many friends or family in person for seven months, I almost wept as she shared her inspiration for some of her works: her grandmother. My grandmother taught me how to sew. My grandmother […]