An new solo exhibition at First Street Gallery reveals how Michele Liebler leaned into introspection during the COVID lockdown to re-imagine kinship as the cradle of bonds and intimacy.
I often think that freedom is the final and most elusive ingredient in making art. When you shake off the outer voices as well as the self-imposed rules, and listen only to the work you’re making.
The selections in An Artist’s Eye: The Lukas Charles Collection don’t read as a manifesto for a particular ideology, but rather as something eclectic, a sampling of individual artists working within academic conventions.
Every project is guided by different questions, but generally they are connected with understanding and visualizing how power and oppression operate in our society.
It’s OK not to always be visible. Your work also doesn’t need to be easily understood. Also, don’t take rejection too deeply. And the reverse–don’t take being chosen too deeply either.