Delta 60 Video

James Matthews' Eviction Quilt #3 (Green Medallion) earned an honorable mention in the 60th Annual Delta Exhibition.

In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art

"Situated and displayed within the heart of their neighborhood, [the Atis Rezistans'] work forms an organic living art installation, an out-of-control glut that simultaneously blends with and erupts from the local. ... These are fashioned from an abundance of discarded materials often attached to skillfully carved wooden totems and welded structures built from motorcycle and car chassis."

Tree Ring

FSA Screenprints Concept

Original title: Two Mexican children on steps of railway station where they live during the cotton picking season on Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire [Miss.]. This transient labor is contracted for and brought in trucks from Texas each season. Marion Post Wolcott, Oct. 1939.

Original title: [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Wife of a sharecropper, Stortz cotton plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas]. Arthur Rothstein, [Aug. 1935].

Original title: Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas. Ben Shahn, Oct. 1935.

Original title: Rural electrification in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Dorothea Lange, June 1938.

Arrest in Chinatown

"The first scene shows the arrested man being led by a police officer ... A group of pedestrians, mostly white, watch the man's unwilling arrest. ... The next scene shows the departure of the police cart with the arrested man, policemen, and triumphant detective, who waves to the camera. ..."

- From the original description, at the Library of Congress.

James Matthews, 2018. Created from source video from the Library of Congress, credited to Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1897.

Billboard, I-40

If I could paint like this ...

The Will of Making

"[This work] is not related to technique or virtuosity or genius or anything, but [is] about the will of making things with anything even when you have nothing."

Abraham Cruzvillegas, quoted in Contemporary Art Mexico

Church Tear-Down

The City of Little Rock tore down a church building today – what used to be the Lily of The Valley on 12th Street. Had I known about it in advance, so much could have been salvaged, including the metal cross on the front of the church, All told, it took about an hour to take the entire structure down.