VAP Q4 2020 Post date June 13, 2020 VAP 2020 Q4 Release The first online editorial edition of VAP 2020 will be release in the fourth quarter of this year with new Untangled storylines and the shape of time in the work of Stephanie Eche. Written by Jenn Cacciola. Sometimes a ruthlessly reminiscent sound, smell or texture will cause me to pick up and dust Transforming and transcending trauma in the work of Qinza Najm. Qinza Najm is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice rooted in her background as a Psychologist studying interpersonal relationships. In Time warp dreamscapes: the resilient paintings of Lindsey Kircher Written by Catie Dillon. When Lindsey and I studied in Florence, the sunlight would stream through our apartment windows and The Trouble with Calling It Work – by Lina Revere Above: Quilt by Lina Revere. The Trouble with Calling It Work I hesitate when I call art “work.” The word The tender discord of dystopia: Fiona Buchanan In her paintings, Buchanan is acutely conscious of not wanting to pander to the eye in any conventional, beauty queen The painted portals of Catie Dillon Written by Lindsey Kircher. Taking in the terracotta reds and yellows of Catie Dillon’s most recent work, I am reminded The medium is the message: things I think about while looking at the work of Charlie J Meyers BASED ON SKYPE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ARTIST DURING THE WINTER OF 2020/2021 Written by Cal Robb. LIFE is a tender The Material Fight and the Fortunate Few – by Hewitt Callister Above: Hewitt Callister's painting palette in Berlin, 1989. The Material Fight and the Fortunate Few A painting should not come The Cracks Within Our Memories: A Visual Analysis of 5 New Works by Raymond Hwang Written by Anna Berghuis. Raymond Hwang’s new body of work conquers perceived memory, often elaborating on the cracks that exist Stitching memories of comfort and grief: the work of Jenn Cacciola Written by Stephanie Eche. I first experienced Jenn Cacciola’s artwork via a Zoom screen during the fall of 2020. Having Speculative Archives in an Age of Digital Uncertainty Jennifer Tazewell Mawby and The Library of Babel: Speculative Archives in an Age of Digital Uncertainty. By Hewitt Callister. Jorge Sketches in time: an interview with Heather Drayzen Written by Rose Silberman-Gorn. Rose: Where are you from and where are you currently based? Heather: I’m from San Antonio, Seductive strangers in the paintings of Jennifer Mawby The vantage point of Jennifer Mawby’s paintings cast the viewer as voyeur. The subject of our gaze is obstructed, we Photographic poetry – Charlotte Ghomeshi. Charlotte Guirestante Ghomeshi is a visual artist based in Montreal who came of age in the Laurentides, an astonishingly beautiful, Phantom Body: Traces That Refuse to Vanish Installation image of Phantom Body by Kat Ryals. Exhibition essay co-created by Alissa Polan and Jennifer Tazewell Mawby. To feel People VAP currently operates with an informal networks of advisors and participating artists, and industry partners. In 2020 our artist partners Paintings in the flesh: Karine Guyon Written by Trevor Kiernander. Karine Guyon’s paintings don’t want you to see them online. Or rather, Karine Guyon’s paintings insist Our current contributors: Lina Revere, Hewitt Callister, and Jennifer Mawby Lina Revere Writer and critic tracing the politics of pattern, memory, and making. Lina Revere is a writer and artist Notes from the Grey City – A Memoir by Hewitt Callister West Berlin in the ’80s was a city in limbo, cut off from the rest of the world, but alive 1 2 Next » ← Features → VAP Q4 2020 – Words and Pictures