Featured artwork by Tammie Rubin
With the multitude of outstanding artworks at this year’s Spring/Break, CREATRIX compiled the list of Instagram accounts to follow so as to keep on riding the digital wave of art that will change the world! Our choice was guided by the works focused on social justice, feminist art, magic and occult, ecological emergency, narrative story telling dealing with loss, pain, death, trauma, capitalism, and pandemic, as well as a wide selection of textile art elevating artisanship and inspiring us all to use those sewing machines purchased in 2020.
- Tammie Rubin and Steve Locke @svlocke curated by the Rivalry Projects @rivalryprojects
Locke and Rubin each make artwork that offers manifold understandings of Black culture and lived experience, and their practices, too, are joined through constituent material elements such as Jacquard weaving and ceramics. Interwoven presents artwork that unpacks collective histories around race and identity, as well as the effects of white supremacy, and bodily violence. Locke and Rubin each grapple with symbols of cultural violence within their artwork in an attempt to reclaim these sites to promote ideas of social justice.
- Tapestry work of Steve Locke @svlocke curated by Rivalry Projects @rivalryprojects
- Fierce figure of Sister Justice by Yvette Molina @yvette__molina curated by Katrina Majkut @katrinamajkut
In her Ig post Molina warns the art critics: “Please do not ever ask me to be more subtle about how I express myself in regards to racism, patriarchy, greed, misogyny, hate, fear mongering, and alternative fucking facts.” We say PREACH SISTER!
4. The artists from “The Closet: America’s Dressing Room” co-curated by Jac Lahav + Tali Hinkis + Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Through a variety of mediums, from textile design and gouache paintings to metallic sculpture, the artists in “The Closet” examine the American body and American identity. Collectively, their work embodies the overlapping connections between immigration, couture and pop culture, civil injustice, spirituality, and the current political climate. Exhibiting artists: Maria de Los Angeles @delosangelesart , Jac Lahav @jaclahav_painting , LoVid @lovidlovid , Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow @lynkeeart , Kymia Nawabi @kymia_nawabi and Kris Rac @krisracworks
- Embroidered icons by Michael A. Cummings @michael_a._cummings curated by Clarence John’s @clarence_h_j
- Michael Sylvan Robinson’s “To Ward Off Late Stage Capitalism” (2021) the artist in his Instagram post explains: “Just so it is clear, I ordered all the Plague Doctor and gas mask print fabrics in October ‘19, long before this imagery was trending” (!)
- Donna Troy Cleary @Donnaclearyartandherbalism curated by Katrina Majkut @katrinamajkut
Cleary, a herbalist, is one of the Spring/Break alchemists, heralding the future shift of emerging art towards the natural world, and natural remedies.
8. Chiara No’s mesmerizing installation “Unbellowed” at Field Projects, curated by Kris Racaniello
9. Samantha Joy Groff @redneckhotwife solo show “The Mechanic’s Daughter” by KaPow&GaBoo, the newly former curatorial team of a star curator Gabrielle Aruta @sojournergaby of Filo Sofi Arts @filosofiarts and Kourosh Mahboubian @kmahboubianfineart
10. Occult Feminine infused iconography of Lori Field aka @bunnyplanet1 “Morte de Rire” and curated
by Imlay Gallery @imlaygallery
11. Moises Salazar Tlatenchi @moises.salazar.tlatenchi solo exhibition “Let’s Get Physical” presented by Filo Sofi Arts and curated by Gabrielle Aruta @sojournergaby
12. Works of “Devotion”, sacred space filled with totemic magic, including Ani Hoover @anihoover, Bethany Krull @bethanykrullsculpture and Anne Muntges @anne_muntges
Curated by Raft of Sanity gallery project created by Resource:Art @resourceartny (Emily Tucker @jinxiet and Elisabeth Samuels @indigoartbuffalo
13. From flat to three dimensional – textile art and the multiplicity of TRUTH by artist Kathy Sirico @moonrisekathy curated by Melanie Reese @melaniereese
14. Alexandra Hammond curated by Vanessa Albury. For Alexandra Hammond art goes hand in hand with consciousness, meditation and creating community.
15. Stuart Lantry’s @stuartlantry “It Takes a lot of Moving Parts to Hit the Nail on the Head” (2020–21) in Shona McAndrew’s Autonomy, Automata, and I
16. Tom Prinsell @tomprinsell “A Casual Day in Hell” curated by Lauren Hirshfield @artfreaky_
17. Ana Maria Farina @anamafarina showing her work as part of Blessed Bodies curated by @hanna.washburn & @abby__cheney with works by us + @adriggallo
18. “I Become Other’ with Kyle Kogut @kylekogut and Chiara No @chiara_no_curated by Kris Racaniello
In addition, Jana Astanov‘s review of the Spring/Break featuring:
Sarah Bereza @sarahbereza curated by Amber Kelly @ambrekelly & Andrew Gori @andrewgoriandfriends
woMANTRA curated by Sadaf Padder @pitterpadder with Jaishri Abichandani @jaishri.abichandani Sahana Ramakrishnan @sahanabanana and Sanie Bokhari @saniebokhari
Joe Bochynski @joe.bochynski curated by curated by John Witty @wittyjohn3
Meg Lionel Murphy @meglionelmurphy curated by Indira Cesarine @indiracesarine for the Untitled Space @untitledspaceny
Compiled by CREATRIX multicultural art coven: Jana Astanov, Hsiao-Chu (Julia) Hsia & Giannina Gomez.
