Jeffrey Grauel – Life Cycles: Antiquated Patterns to Funerary Wreaths

Having been raised out west in the 1970s in a family where arts and crafts activities were common, it is not entirely surprising that Jeffrey Grauel's aesthetic practice uses materials often aligned with this time period. What becomes fascinating is how and why Grauel, while working today with seemingly ...
November 8, 2019
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Elana Marte Adler – Exploring Transferential Colors, Forms & Structures

In part, Elana Marte Adler appears to be on a quest to translate interpretations that can be personal and illusory into sonic and visual form. Working in a variety of conceptual strategies and new to long-standing mediums, Adler's output holds a consistency, though at times fluid, that draws upon ...
September 18, 2019
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Holly Cahill – Propositions of a Female Craftsman

Working in loosely connected spheres of inquiry, Holly Cahill is known to frequent a wide range of disciplines simultaneously. Be it architecture, choreography, fiber arts, painting, sculpture or hyperdimensional phenomena, one finds a distinct interconnectedness in her approach to formal ideas and materials. This week the COMP Magazine visited ...
February 19, 2019
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Victoria Martinez – Intuitive Interventions

Victoria Martinez works in a place between traditional gallery practice and urban intervention. The COMP Magazine recently toured the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen with Victoria; visiting one of the more unique places in the city, laughing at the absurdities of the art-making process and rolling around in piles of ...
December 24, 2014
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