THE FOCUS

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...

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...

"Living in Colombia in the 80’s, in the middle of a number of internal conflicts, has forced most of the population to become familiar to shock. For many of us this shock was wearing off, that was our method to defend our sanity against the customary nonsense of violence that we were living in. This seems normal, that is, adaptive behavior, one could become accustomed to horror and regardless of the circumstances carry on with our regular routine in life. Th...