by Ojo Olaniyi | Dec 14, 2025 | Visual Art
Buying and Selling The work of Ojo Olaniyi reflects a richly decorated narrative style depicting everyday scenes in the kaleidoscope of Nigerian life. Olaniyi’s art comprises vignettes of social and commercial life in a technique known as epoxy etching. While each...
by Jeri Griffith | Sep 29, 2025 | Visual Art
Years ago, as a visual artist who was deeply disturbed by the Gulf War, I began creating a series of ink drawings and collages as a way of expressing my thoughts and feelings about war. I wanted to create archetypal images that could be said to depict not just the...
by Ali Rahimi | Jul 13, 2025 | Visual Art
Kabul Airport, 2024 | Mixed media on canvas Artist Statement I am Ali Rahimi, an Afghan artist working in the field of painting. In my works, particularly in my recent paintings, I utilize a vast and dark space upon which small figures are placed. This large empty...
by Chris Hero | May 4, 2025 | Visual Art
Consistency is the hallmark of a well-developed body of work and this is precisely what we see from Chris Hero. While he is adept at many mediums, including watercolors, oils, and acrylics, he views the problem of medium as a “logistical issue, not an artistic one.”...
by Tieshka K. Smith | Feb 24, 2025 | Visual Art
Kathryn Pannepacker and Tieshka Smith | Northeast Times We chat with Tieshka K. Smith about how community engagement informs her practice as a social documentarian. We also focus on photography she made as part of the Stand With Ukraine Listening Loom (SWULL) project,...
by Marcus Blackwell | Sep 15, 2024 | Visual Art
Consequence Visual Art Editor, April Sunami: How do you grapple with themes of conflict, violence, and/or war in your work? Are there any specific historical events or themes that inspire you? Marcus Blackwell: I think of war primarily in terms of internal conflict or...
by David Murphy | Nov 10, 2023 | Visual Art
These photos show northern Afghanistan, especially the area around Mazar-e-Sharif, from the years 2008–2010 when American and ISAF troops were in force and the war in Afghanistan was ongoing. Mazar is an ancient city, one which could be found centuries ago on the Silk...
by Janet Biehl | May 6, 2023 | Visual Art
How do we depict the lives of migrants? As they appear in news broadcasts, magazine covers, and documentary subjects, refugees express the vivid precarity of their movement. Sprawled across territories, standing together in camps, or facing yet another difficult...
by Lena Zycinsky | Apr 3, 2023 | Visual Art
At the tip of my tongue: Belarus. I was born there in 1986. I left it as many times as I returned, but since 2021 there is no coming back. I come from an artistic family. My grandfather, orphaned at the age of three, once took his grief-filled rhymes to the acclaimed...
by Morrie Warshawski | Feb 16, 2023 | Visual Art
Reflecting on the subject of public unrest—both domestic and international—the role of art in a moment of explosive social change can register as ambiguous among the turmoil. What painting or photo could truly account for the hardened pain viewed endlessly, broadcast...
