An Interview with Kier-La Janisse
A conversation with editor, filmmaker, and author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
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Cindy Ji Hye Kim
Death abounds in the work of Cindy Ji Hye Kim. The paintings evoke the funerary, mourning, and the physical death of the body, while the artist describes her process as something of a psychological journey towards ego death.
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John Carroll Kirby
Cash for Your Trash
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Agata Słowak
Somatic portraiture, while evocative of violence, equally represents a sort of tenderness
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Filippo Cegani’s Grazie
Filippo Cegani’s paintings are haunting, universal symbols conjuring a sense of both reverence, and gothic horror.
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Rae Klein’s Power Play
While man has exploited loopholes in the natural order in an attempt to replace God with his own image, Klein’s paintings suggest that this line of existence is frail and tenuous at best.
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Harley Weir Code Red
From the characters buried deep within her psyche…
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Jennifer Carvalho
The past, the present, the future—it all flattens out into familiar but impenetrable relics.
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Mas Guerrero
Guerrero has managed to express the pure agony of simply having a memory. Think of anything and it is there.
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Anti_cgi: 10 Films for Halloween
Artist and curator Aramis Gutierrez’s top 10 horror movies
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Editor’s Pick: Chris Lloyd
Scribbly, boyish drawings of devils and swords are placed methodically between plebeian fear-slogans “We should never listen to the voice of Satan.” One gets the sense these works were created in the spirit of penance.
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Catherine Mulligan
Mulligan harnesses portraiture and landscape to explore ciphers of a postcapitalist dystopia—organized religion, climate anxiety, data mining, post-irony, fast fashion, faces that smile unknowingly, or perhaps in blissful ignorance.
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Editor’s Pick: Brittany Shepherd Sub Rosa
She is filthy, dirty, sticky. She is wet and messy.
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Isabelle Albuquerque
Isabelle Albuquerque’s work is carnal, ritualistic, one part transhumanism, another part teratophilia
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Will Sheldon’s Small Super Stars
The men are getting exactly what they always dreamed of, perfect wives. But the dream is becoming a nightmare.
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Shelley Uckotter’s Trap Paintings
In the dark dark corners of a dark dark house, up in the rafters of cob-webbed abandoned buildings, on the creaky stairs of a haunted mansion, in the shadows cast by a heavy wood door rusting on its hinges, live Shelley Uckotter’s paintings.
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Maggie Dunlap
Indulging her taste for taboo, Dunlap aims to explore her obsessions, breathing life into her darkest interests.
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Review: The Opioid Crisis Lookbook
In the second issue of the magazine, an ad for Codependents Anonymous is followed by a sardonic editorial featuring Magic: The Addiction, a fictional card gamewith characters like “Nod the Comedown Clown” and “Lord Overdose.”
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