by Eric Mavko It’s difficult to look directly at James Lee Byars, and no doubt he meant it that way. During his career he presented himself in a number of different guises (even as a disembodied voice) and produced a diverse and at times confounding array of sculptures, works on paper, works on paper that…
By Jacob Hicks History is mythology: a construction. To reflect on time is to devolve the infinite dimensionality of reality into a one track linear narrative. My memories alone are fabrications enough; they are directed by my subjectivity and are forever limited next to the expansiveness of phenomenological actuality. History is this kind of hallucination…
By Glenda Lindsey-Hicks We know the origins of science, at least in part, lie in alchemy— at the longing for a convergence of the physical with the metaphysical. We know that a portion of Aristotle’s considerations of the natural world were referred to as metaphysical, but this was less because they were detached from or beyond the physical…
by Jacob Hicks and Angela Gram Titian for Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Michelangelo for Domenico Ghirlandaio, Raphael for Perugino-art history has a long track record of the master and apprentice relationship wherein-which tutelage from an older generation of skilled craftsmen/visionary artists establishes and readies the next. In an ideal world the style and vision of…
