The Sunday Paper #509
Might 19, 2024
I’m delighted to welcome Shawna Moulton to the studio for 2 weeks. I met Shawna once I was a visiting artist at Arnold Grummer’s Paper on the River occasion a number of years in the past. She is the third intern sponsored with the help of the Arnold Grummer household. Shawna has been right here this previous week and can help me within the first Papermaking Grasp Class of 2024 subsequent week.
Shawna is a multi-disciplinary artist and artwork educator primarily based in South Florida. She has been in residence on the Bakehouse Arts Advanced since 2022 and is presently a member of the Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator. Shawna was born in Freeport, Bahamas, raised in Kingston, Jamaica, after which migrated to america. The artworks she creates mirror her seek for identification via her heritage as an immigrant in America, with deep connections to the Caribbean rooted within the richness of the African Diaspora.
I’m delighted to have a clear studio (earlier than the grasp class) and look ahead to working with the group.
We reduce up 3 pairs of worn denims, beat them to a pulp and shaped just a few sheets. Grasp Class members will use the remainder of the pulp.
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I lately discovered about the work of Kelly Pleasure Ladd, who works with paper in such attention-grabbing methods!
© Kellly Pleasure Ladd, Universe Sequence, 88”x48”x6” acid-free paper and light-weight, site-specific, 2024.
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If I lived in San Francisco, I might go see the present present of Hayv Kahraman’s work on the ICA San Francisco. Her work confronts the legacy of colonialism in botany – please click on via and browse her highly effective story – “I’ve discovered I don’t need to have management over every part in my surroundings. Management was what I believed might preserve me protected.” Kahraman is a painter, however the Turkish marbling that she incorporates into the work drew me to this text.
Hayv Kahraman, Love Me Love Me Not Date (2023). Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, Pilar Corrias, London, The Third Line, Dubai, and Vielmetter Los Angeles. Courtesy Institute of Modern Artwork San Francisco. Photograph: Glen Cheriton, Impart Pictures.
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Paper Tidbits
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