The Ion Pack
Before they revealed their identities to the press, the Ion Pack sat down with Asher Penn to talk about podcasting, celebrity culture, and injecting relief into the self-serious world of film.
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Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.
Fade haircuts, concrete walls, flyers with tear-off tabs for carpet cleaners: on canvas, this ephemera that Gonzalez Jr. fixates on gives us something earnest, a documentation of a life for the last generation not fully enveloped by the internet.
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Cowgirl Clue
Imagine Tinkerbell among the ranks of the World Rodeo and you’ll get a sense of how Cowgirl Clue finds her sparkle. In the Texas-born musician and visual artist’s pop plot-twist—all high- vibration bass and whimsical, dizzying beats—Southern charm is not lost, but met with a dash of punk.
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Jul Quanouai
French illustrator and comic artist, Jul Quanouai, is a visual polyglot. The varying styles and mediums he employs in his practice are like private languages of process and form, each one operating on a slightly different emotional timbre.
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A Conversation with Rachel Sennott
If you shout when you talk, they put you in the play. I just loved making people laugh, performing.
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Amalia Ulman on Self-Directed Women
Why do all screenwriting and directing efforts get lost in a sea of gaze, femininity, and vanity? Why, still, does a woman have to be only behind the camera to be taken seriously?
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Editor’s Pick ASMA Wander & Pursuit
An anachronistic office environment rendered in bleak color palettes and composed as a symmetric, medieval walled garden adorned with figurative renderings of chivalric symbolism depicting idyllic moments of the hunt and romantic courtship.
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Premiere: Nelic Spore
Aurora is the new album by music producer Unknown Mobile aka Levi Bruce. Started in Ottawa and finished in Montréal, the project marks an evolution of Bruce’s “sound sketching” approach to composition that began with the wistful, hypnagogic songs of 2019’s Daucile Moon. Across Aurora’s…
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Editor’s Pick: Kyung-Me Sister
These are scenes of innocence and corruption, faith and vanity, with the transformation of a female subject portrayed through human figures or anthropomorphized instruments and architectural features.
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Pillow Talk by Nick Sethi
Pillow Talk – a roving series on sex, love, community, and communication – explores the concept of consent
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Editor’s Pick: Marnie Weber
In Marnie Weber’s film The Cabin of Mothra Crone (2021), a lonely old artist crone lives in isolation in a mountain cabin. Slowly her mental state declines as she paints away the seasons.
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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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Tom Keating on Painters
Painting, “will come to you and leave you,” with a single brushstroke, “like love.”
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Julia Fox on Being a Mommy
With the experiences of birth and motherhood so often shrouded in mystery, we thought we would ask Julia Fox about being a new mommy.
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Frank Dorrey
Printed in Issue 21 Frank Dorrey’s world is one of colour and clash, an overly-saturated realm of sunburnt imagery evocative of that very 90s cocktail of low-quality and high-contrast, one part Hype Williams-directed “Gimme Some More” and one part children’s program animation. Frank makes his works using…
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Editor’s Pick David Horváth Turquoise Routine
Turquoise Routine is David Horváth’s first solo exhibition ever, displaying a selection of small to medium format oil paintings. The Romanian born artist composes impressionistic scenes of landscapes, figures and self-portraits that demonstrate curiosity in light and shadows.
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Editor’s Pick: Michael Childress Equivalents
Michael Childress’ solo exhibition, Equivalents, currently on view at Hesse Flatow, New York, presents kaleidoscopic paintings of symmetry and colour.
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