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Joan Clare Brown Juxtaposes Anatomy and Memories in Poignant Porcelain Sculptures
by Aurelia Butler 11 February 2025, 18:48
“Ed #13” (2023), porcelain and mason stain, 7 x 6 x 8 inches. Photos edited by Nash Quinn. All images courtesy of Joan Clare Brown, shared with permission
Joan Clare Brown Juxtaposes Anatomy and Memories in Poignant Porcelain Sculptures
February 11, 2025
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Depending on how you look at them, the tendrils seemingly growing from Joan Clare Brown’s porcelain bases could be perceived as soft and delicate or spiny, defensive, and slightly unsettling. Dualities lie at the heart of the artist’s approach to ceramics, especially in her ongoing series Ed, which takes personal experience and human anatomy as starting points for a poignant study of grief.
“I started this series as a response to my father’s sudden passing,” Brown tells Colossal. “He was diagnosed with widespread pancreatic cancer and passed away the same day, ultimately of sepsis from complications of a perforated bowel.” In the Ed works, the cinched base, which mimics a frilly-edged textile cushion or pouch, represents a perforated organ, and the long, growing blades or tendrils emblematize infection.
“Ed #5” (2023), porcelain and mason stain, 6 x 4 x 5 inches
The inherent hardness and brittleness of porcelain juxtapose with the softness of textile-like surfaces and organic, plant-like fronds. Each color reflects specific childhood memories of Brown’s father, like the blue and green hues drawn from his favorite flannel shirt or light pinks and purples redolent of a tablecloth used at her family dinners.
“Through the permanence of the ceramic form, my hope was to turn something menacing and insidious into a nostalgic and meaningful reminder,” Brown says. “And by making these pieces, in a way, I feel that he is still present.”
Explore more on the artist’s website and Instagram.
“Ed #16” (2023), porcelain, mason stain, glaze, and luster, 7 x 6 x 4 inches
Detail of “Ed #13”
“Ed #10” (2023), porcelain and mason stain, 7 x 5 x 5 inches
“Ed #11” (2023), porcelain and mason stain, 7 x 8 x 7 inches
“Ed #12” (2023), porcelain and mason stain, 7 x 5 x 4 inches
Detail of “Ed #11”
“Ed #4” (2022), porcelain and mason stain, 7 x 4 x 4 inches
“Ed #3” (2022), porcelain, mason stain, glaze, and luster, 8 x 6 x 4 inches
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Intimacy Centers in Nia Winslow’s Nostalgic Paper Collages Highlighting Black Experiences
by Aurelia Butler 11 February 2025, 17:39
“Child’s Olay” (2023), paper collage, 32 x 40 inches. All images courtesy of the artist and SHEER, shared with permission
Intimacy Centers in Nia Winslow’s Nostalgic Paper Collages Highlighting Black Experiences
February 11, 2025
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Kate Mothes
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From torn pieces of paper, Nia Winslow constructs vibrant scenes that evoke togetherness and nostalgia, often harkening back to the mid-20th century. The Brooklyn-based artist taught herself to create mixed-media collages using paper adhered to wood panels, which draw on narratives, moods, and memories.
Winslow predominantly focuses on the African diaspora, tracing stories of the lives of Black individuals in America. Through collages made with a variety of textures, cuttings, and clippings, she illuminates young people playing outdoors, sitting with their parents, and spending time with one another.
“Steady” (2025), paper collage on birchwood panel, 40 x 30 inches
The artist enjoys combining her passion for style with storytelling. She draws inspiration from artists like Romare Bearden, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and Jacob Lawrence, often portraying Black figures during everyday activities and in informal, leisurely settings.
“Mundane or complex, each piece is created to capture the essence of life through the lens of someone who experiences it,” she says in a statement. Cars, urban architecture, garments, and hairstyles emerge in vivid, intimate portraits of community, support, and self-love.
Winslow’s work “Steady” will be on view at Affordable Art Fair from March 19 to 23 in New York City, presented by SHEER. Find more on the artist’s website and Instagram.
“Secret Keeper” (2023), paper collage, 24 x 36 inches
“Muvah” (2022), paper collage, 40 x 30 inches
“License to Loiter” (2021), paper collage on birchwood, 24 x 36 inches
“Muvah & Me” (2024), paper collage on birchwood panel, 30 x 24 inches
“The Fainting Couch” (2022), mixed media paper collage on birchwood panel, 24 x 36 inches
“We Real Cool” (2024), paper collage on birchwood panel, 40 x 30 inches
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Join Us for a Colossal x Joy Machine Workshop with Peter Frederiksen
by Aurelia Butler 11 February 2025, 13:33
“Not Taking Any Chances” (2022), freehand machine embroidery on linen, 8 x 6 inches
Join Us for a Colossal x Joy Machine Workshop with Peter Frederiksen
February 11, 2025
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We’re excited to share that we’re hosting an embroidery workshop next month with Chicago-based artist Peter Frederiksen. Join us at Joy Machine on March 2 for Frederiksen’s signature Stitch Circle.
The three-hour workshop will unpack his unique approach to image-making and teach the basics of embroidery. All skill levels are welcome.
This workshop coincides with Joy Machine’s inaugural exhibition, Light Preserver, which features Frederiksen’s embroideries alongside works by eight artists who cultivate and ritualize joy.
There are only a handful of tickets left, so get yours before they sell out. And if you’re a Colossal Member, don’t forget to use the discount code in your account for $5 off.
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‘Imagining the Future’ Honors Aleksandra Kasuba’s Trailblazing Installations and Environments
by Aurelia Butler 10 February 2025, 21:07
“Spectrum. An Afterthought” (1975–2014), synthetic fabric, neon lamps, colored filters, steel, aluminum, plywood, and plastic,
40 x 105.6 x 53.9 meters. Photo by Antanas Lukšėnas. Image courtesy of The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Estate of Aleksandra Kasuba
‘Imagining the Future’ Honors Aleksandra Kasuba’s Trailblazing Installations and Environments
February 10, 2025
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Kate Mothes
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From immersive fabric installations and sculptures to photography, landscape design, and architecture, the work of Aleksandra Kasuba (1923-2019) merges myriad ideas about how we experience the world around us. The intersection of technology and nature enchanted the late Lithuanian artist, and she often experimented with a variety of materials and the effects of light, hue, and tension to explore relationships between ourselves and notions of shelter and place.
The first major exhibition of her work in Europe, Imagining the Future at Carré d’Art—Musée d’Art Contemporain, explores the incredible breadth of Kasuba’s artistry.
“Shell Dwellers III” (1989), paper and collage, 35 × 43.5 centimeters. Image courtesy of The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Estate of Aleksandra Kasuba
Born to an aristocratic family, Kasuba enrolled in art school in 1941, focusing primarily on sculpture and textiles. She married artist Vytautas Kašuba, with whom she fled Lithuania in 1944 in the wake of the Nazi occupation of the country. They landed in a displaced-persons camp in Germany where they stayed until making their way to New York in 1947, and her experience as a refugee and an immigrant significantly affected her work.
In the U.S., Kasuba found employment in crafts and design and began laying the foundations for her future artistic practice, which merged applied and functional arts with abstraction. Her interdisciplinary practice took shape in earnest the 1950s and 1960s and was deeply influenced by tenets of modernism and the era of space exploration, which cast humanity’s existence on Earth in a new light.
Mid-20th century scholarship on vernacular architecture also inspired Kasuba, and she was moved by a visit to Bernard Rudofsky’s 1964 exhibition Architecture Without Architects at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He took a broader view of global architecture than the field typically covered and emphasized the ingenuity and beauty of structures built by Indigenous cultures.
Rudofsky suggested that modernism—particularly modern architecture—had lost touch with the real needs of society, and he urged viewers to pay attention to artistic, idiosyncratic, culturally rich local styles free from elitist design rules.
“Rock Hill House” (2002). Image courtesy of The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Estate of Aleksandra Kasuba
Kasuba’s artistic practice blended with daily life in her own living spaces, too, from her New York City home in the 1970s to Rock Hill House, a sculptural dwelling in the New Mexico desert she completed between 2001 and 2005.
The convergence of sculpture and environmental design also fascinated the artist, spurring unique material combinations in large-scale public interventions and spatial installations. Concerned with how we move through places and are affected by our surroundings, she was also commissioned to create numerous public wall installations using materials like brick, marble, and granite.
Kasuba explored the relationships between transparency, color, and light in works like “Spectrum,” privileging organic shapes and an immersive passageway made from stretched nylon. Her Space Shelters series, composed of fabric in curving forms without ninety-degree angles, exemplifies her desire to harmonize nature, people, and technology.
Imagining the Future continues through March 23 in Nîmes, France. Learn more on the museum’s website.
“Dreaming III” (1963), white marble, 103 x 91 centimeters. Photo Antanas Luksenas. Image courtesy of The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Estate of Aleksandra Kasuba
Installation view of ‘Imagining the Future’ at Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France. Photo by Cédrick Eymenier
“Live-In Environment, 43W90, NYC” (1971–1972). From the digital archive of Aleksandra Kasuba. Image courtesy of The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Estate of Aleksandra Kasuba
Installation view of ‘Imagining the Future’ at Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France. Photo by Cédrick Eymenier
Installation view of ‘Imagining the Future’ at Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France. Photo by Cédrick Eymenier
“Rock Hill House” (2005). Image courtesy of The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Estate of Aleksandra Kasuba
Installation view of ‘Imagining the Future’ at Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France. Photo by Cédrick Eymenier
“Shell Dwellers VI” (1989), paper and collage, 35 × 43.5 centimeters. Image courtesy of The Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Estate of Aleksandra Kasuba
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Signe Emdal’s Chromatic Weavings Manifest Wonder and Joy
by Aurelia Butler 10 February 2025, 15:10
Detail of “Fantasia” (2023). All artwork photos by Kristine Funch, courtesy of the artist, shared with permission
Signe Emdal’s Chromatic Weavings Manifest Wonder and Joy
February 10, 2025
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Kate Mothes
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Twenty years ago, Signe Emdal founded a business that focused on making unique textile objects and garments, drawing on her background in jacquard weaving, fabric printing, and a range of other techniques. By 2021, though, she was feeling hemmed in and longed for a way to express herself through a more intuitive, less functional creative direction.
“It was time to free myself from a frame I no longer fit and make a new one,” she tells Colossal. “I had no idea what the new frame would look like, but I trusted that life would bring me something better if I said goodbye to a setup that didn’t bring me joy anymore.”
“Maison” (2023)
A self-described “textile composer,” Emdal views the loom as a window where warp and weft interact to create storage vessels for memories. She is also deeply influenced by exploring new locations. “Art allows me to travel in a completely new way because I get to be in a creation process while spending time with or (being) in other cultures,” she says. Many works she makes on-site, influenced by her surroundings.
Process is central to Emdal’s artistic education and continues to be the primary influence in her practice. “Everything is process, and everything is changing all the time,” she says. “Nothing is ever going to be finished!” She shares that through textiles, she learned to hone her concentration on both physical and metaphysical levels, finding that the meditative methodology of weaving echoes how she views art-making and life more broadly.
Emdal’s related series Touch and Loop comprise sculptural, loom-woven wool in vibrant colors. From radiating puffs of vibrating color to elegant, draping details, her pieces are inspired by science fiction, feminism, art history, and music. “The sculptures are layers of delicate memories,” she says, embodying fragility, resilience, sophistication, and joy.
Emdal’s work will be included in the Textile Art Biennial Slovenia, which runs from May 31 to August 14 across five cities. Find more on Emdal’s website and Instagram.
“Dreams of Gaia” (2024)
Detail of “Dreams of Gaia”
“Heart of Nebula” (2024)
“Fantasia” (2023)
“Acqua 4 ever/Evigheden” (2024)
“Spirit of Green” (2024)
Detail of “Spirit of Green”
“Murex 4ever” (2023)
“Silky Way” (2023)
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Announcing Joy Machine, a New Art Gallery in Chicago
by Aurelia Butler 10 February 2025, 10:00
Abi Castillo, “Blooming” and “Blue Caterpillar” (2025), ceramic
Announcing Joy Machine, a New Art Gallery in Chicago
February 10, 2025
Art
Grace Ebert and Christopher Jobson
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As Colossal prepares to turn 15 this year, we’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be part of a creative community. During the last decade and a half, we’ve spoken with thousands of artists, designers, and makers and cultivated a vast network of friends and colleagues around the globe. Publishing has been one of the greatest joys of our lives and demonstrated again and again how art can connect us all.
We’re incredibly excited to share that we’re expanding our footprint right here in our home of Chicago. Our new art gallery, Joy Machine, opens on February 21.
Michael McGrath, “Night Ride, Spring Gods” (2025), colored pencil on wood panel, 10 x 8 inches
A year in the making, Joy Machine is built around the belief that amid deep uncertainty and upheaval, joy becomes an indispensable gateway to hope. As we navigate this incredibly difficult time, we’re interested in coming together to expand our power to feel and process experiences good and bad.
Our first exhibition, Light Preserver, features nine artists who cultivate and ritualize joy through humor, nostalgia, vibrancy, and excitement for new possibilities. Whether reflecting on childhood fun or invoking art’s ability to rescue us from depression, each artist taps into our shared humanity—not to evade difficult realities but to find meaning and purpose amid chaos. In this way, joy becomes an essential antidote to despair and a fundamental lifeline to keep us all afloat.
Light Preserver features work by many artists you’re probably familiar with, including Moises Salazar Tlatenchi, David Heo, Liz Flores, Peter Frederiksen, Danym Kwon, Lisa Congdon, Michael McGrath, Jeff Rubio, and Abi Castillo.
Colossal will continue publishing independently as it always has, and when Joy Machine’s projects fit Colossal’s mission, we’ll be sure to share them with you all here.
If you’re in Chicago, please join us to celebrate Joy Machine’s opening on February 21. You can follow the gallery on Instagram, and sign up for the newsletter on the website.
Danym Kwon, “When Small Happiness Found Us” (2025), acrylic and acrylic gouache on canvas, 18 x 18 inches
David Heo, “Mamihlapinatapai” (2024), mixed media on paper mounted on panel, 11 x 28 inches
“Red Boots” (2025), acrylic on wood, framed in hemlock, 18 x 24 inches
Peter Frederiksen, “Sharing Secrets” (2022), freehand machine embroidery on linen, 6 x 8 inches
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Bees and Irridescent Bubbles Infiltrate Still-Life Traditions in Marc Dennis’ Paintings
by Aurelia Butler 7 February 2025, 19:11
Detail of “Happily Ever After” (2024), oil on linen, 70.5 x 57.25 inches. All images courtesy of Harper’s, New York, shared with permisison
Bees and Irridescent Bubbles Infiltrate Still-Life Traditions in Marc Dennis’ Paintings
February 7, 2025
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Grace Ebert
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During the Dutch Golden Age, vanitas grew in popularity as a genre of memento mori that emphasized life’s transience. The opulent paintings were steeped in symbolism and foregrounded the futility of ambition and worldly pleasures.
Marc Dennis draws on this 17th-century tradition as he refashions the still life for a contemporary audience. In a recent oil painting, “Happily Ever After,” hordes of honeybees and hornets descend on a lush bouquet. Kaleidoscopic bubbles float across the five-foot canvas, reflecting the surrounding colors and distorting clear viewers of nearby flowers and fruit.
“Happily Ever After” (2024), oil on linen, 70.5 x 57.25 inches
The insects and glossy orbs add another layer of impermanence to the already fleeting imagery, while also reflecting on the tenuous relationship between the organic and human-made. Similar tensions appear in “Allegory of the Readymade,” which suffocates and warps a seemingly vibrant painting with thick layers of plastic wrap. Each of the works clings to a brief moment in time, capturing both life at its prime and serving as a bold reminder of its inevitable end.
Dennis’ paintings are on view in I’m Happy You’re Here through March 1 at Harper’s Gallery in New York. Find more from the artist on Instagram.
“Based on a True Story” (2024), oil on linen, 70.75 x 55 inches
Detail of “Based on a True Story” (2024), oil on linen, 70.75 x 55 inches
“Superstar” (2024), oil on linen, 70.5 x 55 inches
“Portrait of the Artist as a Juvenile Delinquent” (2024), oil on linen, 72 x 58 inches
“Allegory of the Readymade” (2024), oil on linen, 48.75 x 37 inches
“Giotto’s Fly” (2024), oil on linen, 72.5 x 96 inches
“Dracula” (2024), oil on linen, 71.5 x 56 in
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Paradise and Precarity Merge in Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Paintings of Los Angeles Life
by Aurelia Butler 7 February 2025, 14:57
“American Airlines Passenger Ticket 1 (after Warhol)” (2023), oil on canvas, 32 x 59 inches
Paradise and Precarity Merge in Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Paintings of Los Angeles Life
February 7, 2025
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For Jessica Taylor Bellamy, juxtapositions, transparency, and layers shape a way of working that evokes her family history and notions of home and landscape. Born to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and an Afro-Cuban Jamaican father, Bellamy was raised in Whittier, just southeast of Los Angeles.
In glowing oil paintings, she draws from personal mementos like photographs, sales receipts, and newspaper clippings to explore the relationships between utopia and dystopia, humans and nature, image and text, and fantasy and reality.
“Did She Nail It?” (2025), oil on canvas, 26 x 20 inches
Bellamy portrays sunsets, landscapes, trees, urban streets, flora, animals, and cloud formations in a kind of dreamy washiness, adding patterns like chainlink fences, gates, and lace curtains suggestive of boundaries. Horizontal landscapes overlaid with American Airlines tickets echo Andy Warhol’s 1960s silkscreen prints of SAS airline tickets merged with floral motifs.
“Bellamy’s observations are rooted in her experiences of the sprawling urban landscape of Los Angeles—a meeting of nature and civilization at the edge of a precarious paradise, formed by fire, drought, flood, and wind,” says a statement from Anat Ebgi, which represents the artist and opens her new solo exhibition, Temperature Check.
A few works shown here, like “Did She Nail It?,” appear in the show, which merges landscapes and atmospheric lighting effects with references to DIY culture, what’s gendered as “men’s work,” and car and motorcycle culture. The Home Depot receipt, which typically uses the slogan “Did we nail it?,” is combined with an image of a rear-view mirror depicted so close that it initially appears abstract.
Bellamy examines the dualities and precarity of life in Southern California—a seeming paradise we’ve witnessed can be swiftly devastated by fire and drought. The title Temperature Change is also a double entendre, suggesting meteorological readings and a figurative expression used when measuring a group mood or opinion. Through surreal imagery and echoes of mass production and consumerism, the artist invokes a noir reverie.
Temperature Check runs from February 8 to March 22 in Los Angeles. Find more on the artist’s website and Instagram.
“Box Fan (AM)” (2025), oil on canvas, 57 1/2 x 32 inches
“American Airlines Passenger Ticket 2 (after Warhol)” (2023), oil on canvas, 32 x 60 inches
“Playa Larga (Coquina Combination Pill Pack)” (2023), oil on canvas, 23 3/4 x 42 1/2 inches
“A Subspecies of Journalism” (2023), oil on canvas, 59 x 43 1/2 inches
“A Splendid Paradox” (2022), oil on canvas, 70 x 52 inches
“Curtain of Sky” (2024), oil on canvas, 57 1/2 x 48 inches
“Horizontal Thrust I (Blue graffiti highway)” (2025), oil on canvas, 26 x 70 inches
“Driveway Moment” (2025), oil on canvas, 57 1/2 x 47 inches
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Joan Clare Brown Juxtaposes Anatomy and Memories in Poignant Porcelain Sculptures

Intimacy Centers in Nia Winslow’s Nostalgic Paper Collages Highlighting Black Experiences

Join Us for a Colossal x Joy Machine Workshop with Peter Frederiksen

‘Imagining the Future’ Honors Aleksandra Kasuba’s Trailblazing Installations and Environments

Signe Emdal’s Chromatic Weavings Manifest Wonder and Joy

Announcing Joy Machine, a New Art Gallery in Chicago

Bees and Irridescent Bubbles Infiltrate Still-Life Traditions in Marc Dennis’ Paintings

Paradise and Precarity Merge in Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Paintings of Los Angeles Life

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