The East London group sees their life drawing sessions “as a natural progression from the age-old practice of hiring professional harlots and hussies as models for art.”
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For Chloe Dzubilo, Art and Advocacy Were Inseparable
As an HIV-positive trans woman and advocate, Dzubilo faced challenges that should have been history by the early 2000s, yet persist today.
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Two Artists Capture Australia’s Ecology in a Bird
In presenting the distinct ecological identity of Australia, Peter Sharp and Michelle Cawthorn are landscape artists who don’t show you the landscape.
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Irving Petlin’s Haunted Visions of History
In his paintings and pastels, the artist-activist turned to symbolism, metaphor, and memory to convey a world where savagery and distress are rampant.
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Tove Jansson Found Refuge in Play
Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s childlike worlds are not pure escapism, but rather an expression of a state in which joy and fear are allowed to coexist.
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Emily Nelligan’s Self-Portraits of Place
In charcoal and ink, the artist tends to the land with the intimate repetition of a life-long student.
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The Surreal Pathos of Charles Steffen’s Portraits
After suffering a nervous breakdown, the late Chicago artist began to make his surreal graphite and colored pencil portraits on found paper.
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The Raw Humanity of Henry Moore’s Drawings
Moore’s drawings made in underground shelters during WWII show us strangers whose lives had been shredded by grief, despair, and fear.
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The Double Life of Aji V.N.’s Art
Aji’s bifurcated practice reflects his experience of living and working in two different worlds, India and the Netherlands.
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A Galician Artist’s Return Home
Vicente Blanco’s quietly complex drawings depict disorienting, spellbinding scenes in which things are rarely what they initially seem.
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The Children’s Book Author Who Was Also an Artist
Leo Lionni’s wide-ranging practice was kaleidoscopic and rooted in a strong sense of justice.
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The Slow Joy of James Siena’s Intricate Compositions
The deepest pleasure of Siena’s drawings was giving up the search for what generated them and getting lost in the intricacies of the composition.