Corkey Sinks, Virtual Studio Visit, May 2020 "The type of work I make is typically a response to the type of studio space I have access to. In a big, open studio space, I work on a large scale. In my home studio, I have been focusing on writing and drawing, designing zines and books, things that fit into boxes and onto hard drives. Now, my studio feels more like an office and a home gym than a space for art-making....
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Joe Nolan, Bud Powell Died For Your Sins, 2018, C-Print, 20 X 11 in "This photograph [above] was on display at the Stories of the South exhibition at Ground Floor Gallery & Studios in Nashville this March before the show was shut down by the global pandemic. I’m promiscuous when it comes to mediums and materials so I’ve revived an old Fluxus term and describe myself as an intermedia artist. My practice includes photography, public radio poetry broadcasts, live performances, musical releases, mult...
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Curatorial Statement: “The reality of time and space during the pandemic is for many one of limited physical space yet expanded by what we discover through the window of our screen. The 15th century artist Leon Battista Alberti writes in his Treatise On Painting that artists should “design their paintings as illusionary windows thru which viewers would be able to perceive a new reality.” During this time of social distancing and altered schedules and routines, I’ve been thinking a lot ab...
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