THE FOCUS

Amelia Briggs: Can you talk about your use of synthetic hair and how you got started using this material?  Althea Murphy-Price: When I first begin exploring hair in my artwork, I used only my own hair. When I did this I always felt the work was bound to my biography and I wasn’t satisfied with the way the narrative became directed at me instead of a larger discussion about identity and society. In my adolescence I...

My paintings and works on paper pursue abstraction as an intimately coded language of mark-making and editing, producing artworks that invite the consideration of process and materiality in painting as a site for new modes of visual discovery. I consider this work to be an ongoing consideration of process in abstraction, and a central theme is the perception of time via the experience of material handling and mark-making. Richard Feaster, Studio Visit, November 2016 Richard Feaster, Studio Visit, November 2016 Presented in...

Note: Jessica Wohl spoke with Eleanor Aldrich four days before the 2016 presidential election at her show "Love Thy Neighbor" at Sewanee's University Art Gallery. Eleanor Aldrich: Formalism is often thought of as apolitical, where as illustration can border on the didactic- how do you reconcile these in your work? Jessica Wohl: I was actually an illustration major in college, but as I graduated I instantly began distancing myself from that and realized that the work I was making was...