From Biennale to Borderlands: Jeffery Gibson’s Resistance at The Broad
By Chris Hoff Back in 2024, when Jeffrey Gibson represented the United States at the 60th Venice Biennale, then US Secretary of State Tony Blinken touted Gibson’s work as cultural diplomacy, stating optimistically that Gibson’s art “can get people to see each other’s...
Surreal Rooms and Ghostly Girls: Marnie Weber’s The Doll House at Laguna Art Museum
By Tyler Stallings Installation view from opening reception at Laguna Art Museum with the artist, Marnie Weber, in front of The Doll House. Photo by Tyler Stallings. Marnie Weber invites viewers into an uncanny fairy-tale realm in The Doll House (2002), a place...
“A person is more important than anything else…” by Hank Willis Thomas @ Grand Central Art Center
By Tyler Stallings Installation view, Hank Willis Thomas’s A person is more important than anything else…, 2019. Image courtesy of Pace Gallery. Hank Willis Thomas’s A person is more important than anything else… is a searing five-channel video...
