Helen Cammock’s I Will Keep My Soul

By Briana Ellis-Gibbs

JUNE 2023 | Art Books

This multifaceted book reclaims the archive a space for creative reflection. It brings together poems, historical documents, photographs, and archival documents to illustrate the past, present, and future challenges Black people fight against due to the government's discriminatory laws in Southern America.

Jane Wilson: Atmospheres

By Joanna Seifter

SEPT 2023 | ArtSeen

Wilson (1924–2015), the subject of DC Moore Gallery’s quietly soul-stirring Atmospheres exhibition and a founding member of the mid-century Hansa Gallery, produced a range of landscapes embodying what she referred to in a 2001 interview as “the substance of things without substance.”

Remedios Varo: Science Fictions

By Mary Ann Caws

SEPT 2023 | Art Books

The introduction to this catalogue of this perfectly amazing painter-writer-scientist, a poet in everything she undertook, is entitled “Spirit, Matter, Story, Soul” and so says it all.

Alyson Shotz: Alloys of Moonlight

By David Ebony

MARCH 2023 | ArtSeen

Encountering the eight recent abstract, painted folded-metal wall reliefs in Alyson Shotz’s luminous show, Alloys of Moonlight, I thought of Gilles Deleuze’s book The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. “The infinite fold separates or moves between matter and soul, the façade and the closed room, the outside and the inside,” Deleuze remarks in his study of folds as an infinite weaving of time and space in Baroque art. “Because it is a virtuality that never stops dividing itself, the line of inflection is actualized in the soul but realized in matter, each one on its own side.” With the nuanced spatial play in these works—of a façade and an enclosure, outside and inside—Shotz seems to aim for a transcendent quality like the one Deleuze describes.