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1 week ago | 
family.style | Meka Boyle |Brontez Purnell |Ann Binlot
Seasoning is supreme for Padma Lakshmi—and what better way to compliment a rich, spicy dish than thayir sadam, a side of cool and creamy yogurt rice that is packed with flavor. No matter the time of year, Lakshmi has various tricks up her sleeve for a seasonal spin to the South Indian staple. “In the summer, I like to add diced cucumber to my yogurt rice, but in the winter, I’ll throw in some fresh pomegranate seeds,” she tells Family Style.
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1 week ago | 
family.style | Ann Binlot |Meka Boyle |Brontez Purnell |Qingyuan Deng
Harold Mendez is no stranger to artist residencies. The Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist has participated in some of the most prestigious ones. For each, Mendez’s innate curiosity has led him to discover materials not typically used to make art—old cracked glass-plate negatives found in Rauschenberg’s estate, eucalyptus bark from Marin County, and even bone.
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1 week ago | 
family.style | Meka Boyle |Brontez Purnell |Ann Binlot
Family dynamics play out around the table, this much Mary Frey knows. But behind the meals and other intimate moments captured in her portraits of middle-class Americans at home, is the photographer calling the shots and setting up each scene just so. For an artist interested in everyday routines, it's only natural that her own family traditions come with roles of their own.
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1 week ago | 
family.style | Brontez Purnell |Meka Boyle |Ann Binlot
Sean DeLear was the original Black Valley girl. Legend has it, she was among the first group of LA punks to populate the then-newly forming first wave. Like far too many artists, DeLear, who used he/she pronouns interchangeably, was awarded her flowers posthumously—she passed away in Vienna in 2017. I had the pleasure of being friends with DeLear myself. She had to be the most dapper dresser in the world, glamour oozing from her pores.
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1 week ago | 
family.style | Qingyuan Deng |Meka Boyle |Brontez Purnell |Ann Binlot
Patty Chang forcefully eats a cantaloupe installed in her bra while balancing a generic white porcelain plate on her head. As the performance artist addresses the camera in a fictional monologue for her film Melons (at a Loss), 1998, she explains how she inherited a cheaply made saucer from her aunt who passed away from breast cancer.
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1 week ago | 
family.style | Meka Boyle |Brontez Purnell |Ann Binlot
I'm eyeing a gun at the Dallas Art Fair. It’s in a glass case at Tezukayama Gallery’s booth. As I step back from examining it, a woman with perfectly coiffed white hair and a crisp pink jacket bends down to admire it. It is a model that the U.S. uses in the military—next to it is an old Japanese firearm. “It crushes if you touch it,” gallery director Shinpei Okada says when I inquire about the sculpture by Manabu Hasegawa—it is hollow, made with paper and pencil frottage.
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2 months ago | 
interviewmagazine.com | Brontez Purnell |Jake Nevins
“There was a camera behind the mirror,” explains Peter Berlin when I asked him how he oriented himself in his now immortal self-portraits. The statement seems prophetic and fitting, in that the entire arc of the Peter Berlin persona hinges on the notion of deep self-reflection, proving, maybe triumphantly, that narcissism can in fact be a good thing.
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2 months ago | 
family.style | Sahir Ahmed |Brontez Purnell |Sophia Li |Jane Lewis
A book is the imagination made manifest—worlds, characters, and ideas realized through pages and alchemized by readers. For Black History Month, we wanted to explore how culture and community nourish the soul, from the meals we share to the stories we tell. Family Style asked 15 Black artists, writers, and cultural figures to share a book by a Black author that has stayed with them.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
interviewmagazine.com | Brontez Purnell |Jake Nevins
There was this game I used to play with Michelle Obama’s autobiography that to this day I still indulge in. It’s a sort of bibliomancy, and Obama’s book is one of those texts where you can turn to virtually any page and find something deeply inspirational. Even as I flip to page one, the preface alone snags me. The first quote I’m staring at basically says it all: “So far in my life, I’ve been a lawyer.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
bombmagazine.org | Renee Gladman |Rebecca Teich |Brontez Purnell
June has forgotten something, and her life is restructuring itself around not quite remembering this redaction. She keeps running into a beautiful stranger who seems to know her, a woman who makes her past and her waking life go ambiguous around the edges.
