“Catbagan’s insurgent method of making time and meaning amid the durative is instructive for many of us now, as we each seek to work through the morass of upheaval and destruction…We work through much time and many thoughts with Catbagan, but how (like life) is up to us—we can move through them quickly or pause for more contemplation.” Amber Musser Jamilla writes about my recent painting/drawing series Notations, which are journalistic and diagrammatic interpolations of my daily thoughts and experiences that I have posted via Instagram @moofro.
Notations Series Instagram essay @a_jamilla
Instagram essay of Notations Series by Amber Jamilla Musser
“The place where these images and words meet can always only be specific to every person’s history and memory; an elusiveness that illuminates the instability that all representation is built on. Words and images are always fictional attempts to produce communication.” Amber Jamilla Musser is is an Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, who writes about race, aesthetics, and sexuality and is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU, 2014) and Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU, 2018). Her brief essay about my Notations series is on her Instagram @ a_jamilla.
Feature in Art Blog
My photography series “Dark Matter” was featured in Artblog’s ongoing virtual exhibition “Artists in the Time of the Coronavirus.” Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof launched Artblog in 2003 with a mission to share their intimate knowledge of Philadelphia's cutting edge art, and to educate and support a community of artists, art lovers, gallerists, critics and academics. Artblog was recognized for excellence twice by Art in America (2005, 2007) and has received grants from the Knight Foundation and elsewhere. Working as a team of writers and support staff, Artblog today is an educational laboratory and online archive generating ideas to connect the public with art.
Art Feature in the Immigrant Artist Biennial
Grateful that The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) featured my work in their instagram in April. TIAB is a multi site artist-run project, presenting work by U.S based immigrant artists from around the world. To be presented in New York City every two years, TIAB sets out to form an international dialogue through exhibition of ambitious projects and events with an aim to facilitate a diverse and experimental discourse as well as build a globally connected and united community in the times of extreme anti-immigrant sentiment, unrest, discrimination and exclusion. For more information about their exhibitions and events visit their site www.theimmigrantartistbiennial.com