Nozomi Yamashita’s Photo Zines

By Megan N. Liberty

APRIL 2021 | Art Books

Using collaged inkjet printed images, tracing paper, and embroidered beaded felt, the artist creates an object that reads as both amateurish and skillfully crafted—qualities often set at odds. Yamashita elevates these private practices to the public practice of publishing, making space for the concerns and desires of girls and young women.

Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in Paris

By Joe Fyfe

JUL-AUG 2022 | ArtSeen

Whistler to Cassatt illustrates the story of the changes in American art that took place after the Civil War. Many artists turned away from the methodology of the Hudson River School, and it became the norm for literally hundreds of them to train in Paris, with its superior art academies and the Louvre’s masterworks available to study and copy; the entrance to the exhibition includes a wonderfully evocative photo mural of the Eiffel Tower under construction.

PHOTO | BRUT

By Lyle Rexer

FEB 2021 | ArtSeen

Is there such a thing as outsider photography? The term “outsider” has come to mean either self-taught, outside the art establishment or, in the more extreme version, cut off from many forms of social intercourse by mental illness or incarceration.

Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum

By Ann C. Collins

SEPT 2022 | ArtSeen

Use of the photo image in reworking narratives lies at the heart of Our Selves, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of ninety photographs made by women artists.