Emily Farranto

2 weeks 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.

2 months ago | 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.