Lori Waxman

1 week ago | chicagoreader.com | Lori Waxman

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by Xiaohan Jiang. Xiaohan JiangDoes Xiaohan Jiang dream of horses? Her paintings surely do.

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Lori Waxman

CHICAGO — During the Great Migration, more than six million Black people moved to the North and West of the United States, driven to escape the racial violence and oppression of the Jim Crow South. It stands to reason that artworks exploring such a monumental exodus might themselves take on immense forms. Two opportunities to explore this convergence are currently on view in Chicago art institutions.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Lori Waxman

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. EVANSTON, ILLINOIS — The single greatest collage I have ever seen is by Frank Big Bear, a member of the White Earth Ojibwe tribe. “The Walker Collage, Multiverse #10” stretches more than 30 feet wide and includes cut-out images of everything.

1 month ago | chicagotribune.com | Lori Waxman

I really dig house museums. They’re like historical fiction rendered as physical space, a portal into the lives of other eras, made newly accessible across barriers of time, race, class, gender and other limitations. Sir John Soane’s Museum, a curiosities-stuffed townhouse in London, includes an Egyptian sarcophagus around which its owner used to throw parties. The Ulysses S. Grant Home in Galena has no electricity or indoor plumbing, and plenty of hand-cranked kitchen tools on view.

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Lori Waxman

In the project 60 wrd/min art critic, writer Lori Waxman explores how art writing can serve an expanded field of artists—including those incarcerated, trying to gain visas, working to establish themselves professionally, or just wanting feedback for a secret hobby. For this iteration, Waxman reviewed work made by Chorong Yang. Chorong YangThose completely spaced-out folks you see on their commute, at work behind a counter, anywhere really, they give me the creeps.