The multimedia work of New York artist Bunny Rogers (b. 1990) is “not without its antecedents,” to borrow the words of the architect and former Brooklyn Museum director Philip N. Youtz. Rogers was just 26 years old when the Whitney Museum of Art unveiled her solo show, “Brig Und Ladder,”…
Molly O’Donnell’s Spit explores the relationship between the grotesque and the natural as it navigates the complicated relationship we have with the internet and pressing issues of sexuality, gender, and identity. O’Donnell features an ambiguous figure (potentially human, potentially cyborg) that spits on a cellphone screen and into another’s mouth. As…
Lilia Levine’s piece Ruminations depicts experiences of mental angst and obsession through laser cutting and 3D printing. Her work represents the modern anxieties women face within our nuanced (yet ubiquitous) patriarchal society by exploring language in the 21stcentury. Levine states that although we try our best to “perfect” most of our lives,…
Nicole Brunel’s Pain Index takes us back to the early days of hyperlinked artwork. With a similar format to Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson and Mouchette by Martine Neddam, The Pain Index is a labyrinth of links that guide the viewer through a swirl of fiction, history, and theory about the oppression…
The first time I watched porn, I was 15 years old. It was late and I was alone. It was not desire or lust that pushed me towards typing those four letters into Google; it was curiosity, heavy with the thrill of rebellion. My heart beat hard in my chest:…
Four women have held the post of Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. Four. Total. Ever. And they are all still alive today: Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. This is our very recent history. All but Justice O’Connor, who retired in 2006,…
“Wow—you’ll be just like those girls on The Hills.” That is what my professor said when I told him that I wanted to be a writer. My role models are Gloria Steinem and Anderson Cooper, but I usually elicit other assumptions with my blonde hair and occasional West Coast intonation. I…
A few weeks ago, I was walking with a friend down a very crowded street when a man launched into telling her how beautiful she looked. She visibly tensed, grabbed my arm, and hurried our walk to our destination. Since I occasionally use this column to make confessions, here is…
Francesca Lyn is a PhD student in the Media, Art, and Text program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Throughout the fall and spring, she will be writing about her experiences researching and writing on the comic arts. I’ve been struggling with writing about my experiences as a graduate student who studies comics….
My fingers fly over my keyboard as I punch out the motions of virtual battle. Stab to the left, the right, fireball, heal, crack them over the head with my staff. My character is a whirlwind, a fighting machine, a true warrior. But as I always do when I play…