By Juliana Ward “BLACK DEATH SPECTACLE” reads the back of protester Parker Bright’s t-shirt as he stands in front of the controversial painting Open Casket by white artist Dana Schutz at the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Conversations of cultural appropriation and

By Stephanie Choi The world of artistic expression often contrasts the idea of scientific description: The former is subjective and vague, often manifested in loose brushwork with plenty of room for imagination and interpretation. The latter is rational and precise,

By Maggie North   Introduction Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988) studied graphic arts at the School of Applied Design for Women before taking up painting at an artists’ colony in Woodstock, New York in the summer of 1919. Today, she is

By Nicholas P. Fernacz      Xu Wenhua 徐文华, a Chinese artist and poster maker not well known in the United States, was born in Shanghai in 1941. This paper attempts to historicize one of Xu Wenhua’s works in the

By Caitlin Green The grace of their bodies confronts these political obscenities. -Nancy Spero [1] Nancy Spero’s The Acrobats (Fig. 1) of 1990 is a drawing installation comprised of seven vertical panels of paper. The first five panels consist of repetitive

By Sofia Pitouli “Purity of writing is purity of the soul” (طهارة الكتابة هي نقاء الروح.). So states an old Arabic saying that points to the importance of writing, and especially of beautiful writing, in Islamic culture.[1] Under the third

By Katie Tumang Historically, drawing has been used as a preliminary medium for works such as paintings and sculptures and was rarely acknowledged as art in its own right. Drawing is therefore intrinsically connected to sculpture as a two-dimensional representation

By Charlotte Seaman Contemporary artist Laylah Ali uses drawing in a distinct way, to depict scenes that are subtly less narrative, less violent, and more playful than those in her paintings. In this essay I will primarily discuss Ali’s 1998

By Matt Stec Systems for drawing have been a useful tool for artists in every historical art movement. Mark-making strategies, such as cross-hatching, or hatching, have been in place for hundreds of years and still continue to be used by

By Ismene Markogiannakis For centuries, drawing has been associated with two dimensional surfaces, and standard drawing utensils. Artists use drawing to translate their ideas and inspiration on paper, and eventually develop them into a finished work of art. At the

By Khai Vuong Representations of the female nude in the European artistic tradition were typically made by male artists who put women on display for a presumed male viewer. The female nude was transformed into an erotic, yet passive, figure

by Melanie A. Griffith There are many types of art in this world, ranging from traditional paintings, prints, sculptures, and ceramics to the more radical concepts of the abstract. Within the walls of a museum, these items are collected, stored,