Places

Ken Nwadiogbu‘s solo show, Yellow is the new Black, was recently at Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery. I was struck by the melancholy in these paintings, a sense of wistfulness. We have to face a certain loss when moving on to something new in our lives, something that came across very strongly in the exhibition. Many of […]

I was recently one of the artists in THE AUDACITY, a group show exploring the female gaze and taking up space. Curated by London-based performer and artist Stephanie Leigh Rose, STEFDIES with Friends: THE AUDACITY was a bold and unfiltered exploration of the female gaze—a visual reclaiming of power, presence, and public space. The month-long […]

My second post about Walk the House by Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern further explores the artist’s concepts of home, place, memory and time. In this piece the artist made a rubbing of his childhood home in Seoul decades after leaving Korea. The house has, in his words “always followed me”. Not only is […]

Do Ho Suh is best known for his gauze sculptures of indoor spaces. This retrospective show, Walk the House at Tate Modern, however, gives us a more rounded view of his work exploring the concept of houses and home. Home within Home is a 1:9 model in resin of his childhood home in Seoul Korea […]

I wanted to show the vast difference of scale, if not of impact, between the two artists in this exhibition: Poppy Field by Van Gogh, seen on the right and,looming through the doorway, part of The Starry Night by Anselm Kiefer, which takes up the entire back wall in the next gallery. Kiefer covers his […]