Volume 37, Number 3: Painting

August 2018
#147

The Border Crossings Painting issue is our largest and most anticipated issue of the year. In this issue we look primarily at artists who explore the elasticity and complexity of paint as a medium.

We interview South African, Amsterdam-based artist Marlene Dumas. Dumas is largely recognized as one of the most influential painters working today. She has exhibited internationally for over the past four decades. Dumas works investigates the complexities of identity and power. Working with gestural brush strokes and thin washes of paint, her works have a distinctly transparent appearance that emphasizes their materiality and intimate subject matter.

David Lynch is a contemporary American artist and filmmaker. In this issue he discusses his unique voice as a painter and the struggle “to keep chasing the thing[s] [he] hasn’t found.” His works are visceral and dark, a product of what he calls the mind’s “beautiful pitch-darkness.” His various art practices move in the shadows of this ever present sub-current.

In this issue, we also interview three unique artists: London-based artist, Sky Glabush; American painter and gallery owner Laura Owens; and German born, Winnipeg-based painter and educator, Holger Kalberg.

In our articles section, John Kissick takes an in-depth look at the recent sculptural survey at the New York Metropolitan Museum’s Met Breuer in Like Life: Colouring the Body of Sculpture; Mariianne Mays Wiebe discusses the work of Laure Prouvost in Waiting for Prouvost: Close Encounters of a Poetic Kind; and Stephen Horne discusses painting and the personal in The Personality of Abstraction.

Also in this issue, Erica Mendritzki discusses the history and politics of migration in Mothering Resistance: Reflections from the Borders of Art; and we feature three poems (inspired by the work of Agnes Martin) by Sylvia Legris.

The Crossovers include reviews on Joan Mitchell and Jean-Paul Riopelle, Tim Zuck, Donigan Cumming, Yoko Ono, Dan Brault, Catherine Telford-Keogh, Beau Dick, Karla Black, Dagmara Genda, Benjamin Klein, Vikky Alexander, book reviews on Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman, and Oscar Cahén edited by Rosemary Shipton and Marianne Gerlinger, a review of The 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and “What Flies Above” exhibited at Gallery 1C03 in Winnipeg + more…

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Table of Contents

  • BORDERNOTES

  • Uneasy Bridges to Writing a Fine Madness Helen DeWitt and Robert Walser Meeka Walsh
  • BORDERVIEWS

  • Paintings That Go on Somewhere Else
  • Art Policing
  • A Visual Song of the Open Road
  • BORDERCOLUMN

  • The Destiny of Pictures: The Donald’s Hollywood on the Potomac Destiny films presents ‘North Korea Singapore Summit Video,’ Directed by Donald Trump, produced by the National Security Council Robert Enright
  • INTERVIEWS

  • The Worth of Living and Loving An Interview with Marlene Dumas Meeka Walsh, Robert Enright
  • Dark Enlightenment An Interview with David Lynch Robert Enright
  • Image-Grappler Sky Glabush and the Art of Self-Interrogation Robert Enright
  • Painting in an Expanded Field An Interview with Laura Owens Robert Enright
  • The Structure of Connecting An Interview with Holger Kalberg Robert Enright
  • ARTICLES

  • Life Like Colouring the Body of Sculpture John Kissick
  • Waiting for Prouvost Close Encounters of a Poetic Kind Mariianne Mays Wiebe
  • The Personality of Abstraction Stephen Horne
  • ESSAY

  • Mothering Resistance Reflections from the Borders of Art Erica Mendritzki
  • POETRY

  • Three Poems by Sylvia Legris
  • CROSSOVERS

  • Joan Mitchell and Jean-Paul Riopelle Monica Tap
  • “What Flies Above” Alison Gillmor
  • Tim Zuck Dan Adler
  • “Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects” Kim Dhillon
  • ‘Men and Apparitions’ by Lynne Tillman Emily Doucet
  • Donigan Cumming Michelle Drapeau
  • Yoko Ono Aryen Hoekstra
  • Dan Brault David Elliott
  • Catherine Telford-Keogh Shannon Garden-Smith
  • ‘Oscar Cahén’ edited by Rosemary Shipton and Marianne Gerlinger John Kissick
  • Beau Dick Robin Laurence
  • Karla Black Dagmara Genda
  • “The 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art” Bhavisha Panchia
  • Dagmara Genda Elyssa Stelman
  • Benjamin Klein Cameron Skene
  • Vikky Alexander Nancy Tousley