Category Archive: ART

Jackie Liu: The Visual Diary of a Young Artist

Have you ever wanted to see inside the mind of someone else? Were you curious about their perspectives, experiences, and how these things may have shaped them into the person they are today? We have the traditional ways of studying the etched writings in our journals or performing poetry among a crowd, both of which are vivid and meaningful. However, 18-old-artist Jackie Liu gives the word "diary" an entirely different meaning. She brings the inside of her mind to life through paintings and storytelling. The artist reflects on her experiences in a wise, unorthodox way which makes her seem wise beyond her years. 

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Baseera Khan: Finding Home Through Body and Space

“I am a confusing artist to someone who’s not paying attention,” Baseera Khan tells Wide Rainbow Studio during a virtual studio visit. “I make sculptures, I do performance, I like photography, and writing and I kind of try to swerve all over the highway and try to make as much different kinds of work as I can.”

The artist grew up in Denton, Texas, as a child of Indian immigrants. They describe being the bridge between America and her parents, putting them in a position of intersectionality between being Indian and Texan, Muslim and American (an identity often considered paradoxical in America), and identifying as queer in a patriarchal society.

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Loie Hollowell: Mind Bending Bodies

“It’s not abstraction with a big ‘A.’ But even the most abstract things have some reference,” Loie Hollowell told Flaunt Magazine when describing her art that falls somewhere between abstract, realism, or modernism. The artist focuses on themes such as sex, pregnancy, postpartum, and the dynamic between her mind and her body. “So I view my works as body landscapes through the language of minimizing forms to a more symbolic space,” Hollowell explained to Flaunt. 

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Andres Cobre: Divine in Detail

We’ve all seen our fair share of graffiti while traversing the unique layouts of our own individual cities in which we reside. Personally, my experience with graffiti is with the city closest to home, Atlanta, largely tagged with various forms of graffiti – whether it be a full wall mural or something as simple as the letters “ATL” spray-painted alongside an overpass. This intriguing art form can serve many purposes, stemming from a movement, a way to communicate, or simply to amaze.

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