Grace Visits: Artist Sandra Payne
I have never experienced an apartment where every inch of space was conceived as a beautifully composed art installation.
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Grace Visits: Artist Miriam Brumer
Miriam Brumer’s art has the power to be formally delicate, while at the same time consisting of a razor sharp humor penetrating the skin of pretense, which she peels open for scrutiny.
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Grace Visits: Natalie Barkely Brown Jones
Art has given Natalie Jones both a refuge and a voice that is not a whisper but a roar that demands to be heeded.
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Grace Visits: Artist Daria Dorosh
In this age of “selfies” Daria Dorosh began a new digital print series titled Narcissus, which considers “self-love and . . . the dark side of obsessional beauty.”
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Grace Visits: Artist Cicely Cottingham
Cicely Cottingham’s later works feature a palette that is aggressive, resulting in a muscular dance with paint.
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Grace Visits: Art Collector Johanne Bryant-Reid
Johanne Bryant-Reid is an extraordinary woman who has devoted her life to the arts, knowing with certainty that it is a glorious path to enriching one’s being.
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Grace Visits: Artist June Wilson
Grace Graupe-Pillard is making studio calls. This week she shares with us her visit to the studio of the artist June Wilson whose love affair with nature since her childhood days deeply informs her artistic practice.
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Grace Visits: Artist Mimi Smith
The visual elegance of Mimi Smith’s work often belies the startling dichotomy between the object and the inscribed words. Her language is both comical and deadly serious.
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Grace Visits: Artist Robin Tewes
Robin Tewes believes "[T]here is a need for men to be fragile and vulnerable with each other . . . usually they are not portrayed that way in art history. . . ” In her work, "Men In Trouble," men are metaphorically engulfed in water — either drowning, or in a ritual of purification, transitioning from one state of awareness to another.
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Grace Visits: Artist Judith Henry
This August, our frequent arts contributor and artist herself Grace Graupe-Pillard is making studio calls. This week she shares with us her visit with Judith Henry, who for over 40 years, has created evocative multimedia artworks that explore the friction between our interior lives and public selves.
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It Can (Finally) Happen Here
By Grace Graupe-Pillard
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"I distinctly remember feeling envy mixed with frustration and fierce anger when I realized that boys had advantages available to them in the universe outside of 875 W.180th Street, Apartment 1B that were not accessible to me.”
A Memorial Day Parade and the Making of Art
By Grace Graupe-Pillard
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I loved photographing the schoolchildren in the Memorial Day parade, when recognition of a parent in the crowd-filled sidewalks initiated a loss of composure and a squall of wildly waving hands.
Christmas Envy
By Grace Graupe-Pillard
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I have never seen a tree, whether at Rockefeller Center or The White House, that can compare to the ones that a New York City "five and dime" store on 181st Street, just off Broadway erected for Christmas, covered with glittering baubles, and flakes of snow, with the height and mass of a mountain crowned by a brilliant golden star. A tree that tapped into a child’s hunger for inspiration and enchantment.
When Women’s Bodies Get Censored on Facebook: An Artist Responds
By Grace Graupe-Pillard
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In my portraits, the personal and the political are interlaced: they involve risk through a literal baring of self, expose the vulnerabilities of aging, and explore with humor and pathos, how I as an older woman exist and navigate as unnoticeable in an urban environment.
Father’s Day: Words, Words, Words
By Grace Graupe-Pillard
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After his massive stroke, my father sat in his wheelchair, frantically scribbling in a notebook. Utterly frustrated, he scratched out on crumpled, stained paper: I USED TO BE O.K. . . . I AM A RETIRED ARCHITECT. Witnessing this encounter, I felt ineffable heartbreak