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Bodies and Borders

Bodies and Borders

Wafaa Yasin literally turned her body into a boat and set sail across the San Francisco Bay. Yasin expected to fail in sailing anywhere, but she also hoped not to drown. Born in Palestine, the San Francisco-based performance and multimedia artist...

Michele Carlson | Wed, May 16th- 12:12pm | Artwell, Art & Design, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012
Camp in the Camps

Camp in the Camps

Looking for Jiro is a short video by San Francisco-based performance artist and writer Tina Takemoto. Takemoto combines historic footage of military propaganda and men’s bodybuilding with her own campy performance in the role of Jiro...

Lj Roberts | Wed, May 16th- 12:07pm | Artwell, Art & Design, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012, Performing Arts
The Language of Seeds and Tents

The Language of Seeds and Tents

It began with papaya seedlings covertly planted on a narrow strip of grass between a roadway and a chain-link fence.

Gaye Chan and her partner, Nandita Sharma, deliberately placed the plants on public land without permission or regret. For...

Weston Teruya | Wed, May 16th- 12:08am | Artwell, Art & Design, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012
It's Complicated

It's Complicated

ANGIE WANG describes herself as an "illustratress and cartoonista," a nod to the influence of fashion and comics in her work. The Portland, OR-based artist is compelled by feelings of terror and regret, particularly in horror and science fiction...

Sita Kuratomi B... | Tue, May 8th- 12:46pm | Artwell, Art & Design, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011
Botany of the Body

Botany of the Body

Mehta’s interdisciplinary work symbolically documents the oral histories of displacement.

Sita Kuratomi B... | Wed, Jul 20th- 12:27pm | Art, Artwell, body, Diaspora, maps, mixed media, Samanta Batra Mehta, Art & Design, Culture, Issue 23: Bittersweet - Spring 2011
Cut In/Cut Out: The Work of Gina Osterloh

Cut In/Cut Out: The Work of Gina Osterloh

What are the boundaries of the body? Look closely at Gina Osterloh’s images for the telltale signs of a body in search of connection. Legs sink into the floor and bodies emerge out of the wall. Combining sculpture and performance, Osterloh...

Sita Kuratomi B... | Thu, Jul 22nd- 11:43pm | Artwell, Art & Design, Issue 20: Inside/Out - Spring 2010, Performing Arts, Photography

Drawn to the Edge

In Weston Takeshi Teruya’s work, makeshift islands are constructed from objects of the built environment. The markers of borders — fences, cones and barriers — explode and implode on paper as Teruya explores the ways that borders shape spatial...

Sita Kuratomi B... | Tue, Apr 13th- 7:44pm | Artwell, Art & Design, Issue 19: Trailblazing - Winter 2009, Photography
Web Exclusive: More of Photos from Gina Osterloh's World

Web Exclusive: More of Photos from Gina Osterloh's World

Artist Gina Osterloh has been keeping the art world busy. We have an update and more images from Osterloh in an online-only companion piece to the Inside/Out Issue's Artwell feature.

Sita Kuratomi B... | Thu, Apr 15th- 11:30pm | Artwell, Art & Design, Issue 20: Inside/Out - Spring 2010, Performing Arts

Attack Mode

WHEN ERNEST CONCEPCION arrived in the United States from the Philippines, he found himself living in suburban New Jersey with his older sister Boredom led him to wage epic wars on paper between armies of the banal: coffee against milk, priests...

Rebecca | Mon, Mar 8th- 10:12pm | Artwell, Art & Design, Issue 18: Action - Summer 2009

Shape Shifter

Anna Sew Hoy is a modern-day alchemist. The Los Angeles-based artist takes clay, wood and everyday objects like clothing, costume jewelry, electrical cords and beer cans and transforms them into eccentric, vaguely mystical sculptures that are...

Sharon Mizota | Mon, Dec 6th- 12:32pm | Artwell, Art & Design, Issue 16: Consumption - Winter 2008
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