THE FOCUS

Mary Addison Hackett: The first thing that struck me about some of your recent work was the ambiguous reference to water. You grew up in Haiti, before settling in Palm Coast, Florida—a community developed under the guidance of William Levitt, whose nickname was, “The King of Suburbia.” Can you talk about how your background and coastal living has informed your work? Abigail Lucien: Growing up I was never too far from a body of water; it hadn’t struck...

Century Zoo VII Century Zoo VII (Preparations) Studio - July 2016 Andrew Scott Ross received his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art, and his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He subsequently studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Ross has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including; The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, The Guggenheim Museum in New York, The...

David Onri Anderson: The work I am currently making is in between a performance of negotiating a symbiotic relationship with inert material and creating a or assisting with hidden or mysterious qualities that could exude with the combination of specific artist material and general waste, refuse, and low-brow subject matter. Each work usually functions as a painting, while occupying an individual space as an object, and altogether they form stanzas that direct the line of sight through a rhythm...