From the Chair

BANKSY AUCTION STUNT LEAVES ART WORLD IN SHREDS My class this morning, was discussing the aggressive and often violent ideas of the Futurists and others in the early part of the 20th century. I was still thinking about Tomasso Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, and other...
Make a face: Anwar Floyd-Pruitt by Lindsay Christians

Make a face: Anwar Floyd-Pruitt by Lindsay Christians

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt has made thousands of faces. Each one is a single, unbroken line tracing eyes, ears, lips and a nose in pen and ink or silicone caulk. It’s a quickly repeated self-portrait, an evolving, abstract sketch of how he looks to the world at any given...
Back to the water: Tomiko Jones by Lindsay Christians

Back to the water: Tomiko Jones by Lindsay Christians

When photographer Tomiko Jones travels, she likes to make cyanotypes — a simple, alternative photo process that involves chemically treated paper and UV light — using the water from a local reservoir or river. The natural water can make the picture cloudy if it was a...
An artistic appetite: Evan Gruzis by Lindsay Christians

An artistic appetite: Evan Gruzis by Lindsay Christians

Evan Gruzis [BFA ’02] underestimated Madison’s love of tie-dye. Last June, Gruzis and a group of artist friends pitched a few tents and set up big buckets of bold color at a ’60s-themed Madison Night Market. There’d been a little promotion for “We’re Dyeing,”...

From the Chair

The very principle of photography is that the resulting image is not unique, but on the contrary infinitely reproducible. Thus, in twentieth‐century terms, photographs are records of things seen. -John Berger, Understanding a Photograph In John Berger’s book, About...