Emily Farranto

3 weeks ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez |Emily Farranto

The Ick and Id at U.N.O.Vee Adams’ Collective DripMushrooms are all the in wellness, cooking, and leather alternatives, making Vee Adams’ MFA thesis show, Collective Drip at U.N.O. Gallery, right on time. Adams’ two and three-dimensional works synthesize a world in which fungi and fauna are upcycled to charming—and gnarly—effect. Days before the show opened, the artist learned that U.N.O. planned to terminate the graduate program.

1 month ago | antigravitymagazine.com | Steven Melendez |Emily Farranto

Pulp Fictions Aside, Tom Walton is a Serious PainterTom Walton’s paintings, a series of interiors, are on view in his current solo exhibition titled Recent at The Parlour Gallery. There’s a perceptible correlation between the historic interior of the gallery—presumably once the building’s parlor—and the illusion of domestic space within the paintings.

Mar 7, 2025 | antigravitymagazine.com | Emily Farranto |Steven Melendez

The Crude Aesthetic of Collective GriefIt’s Donald Duck, and it isn’t. A bust of the cartoon character sat on a pedestal in Susan Bowers’ exhibition, “The Aura and Rootedness: Hardcore,” at the Clay Center of New Orleans last month, easily recognizable in his jaunty blue sailor hat, red bowtie, and tight-beaked grimace. But something was off. Many things were off. The surface of Donald Duck is not smooth like fine pottery or celluloid; it’s chunky and rough.