The Unibrow

Art all under one brow. Biannual Arts & Culture Journal + Creative Studio + Daily Brows.

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RIP, Betye Saar. She was featured in the latest edition of The Unibrow, to celebrate her upcoming 100th birthday.

You can read it here: https://t.co/d2ZuwRqZ2o

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From our piece on #BetyeSaar from our current journal, Issue 02

"Her altered Polaroid assemblages become emblems of a spiritual and aesthetic threshold that declares the 21st century a new age of enlightenment for Saar’s practice."

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From our coverage of @davidzwirner's show with Steven Shearer

"When the Metalheads Meet the Renaissance"

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Subscribe to print. It's still happpening here --->

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“The works must defend themselves on their own; I’m not going to defend them,” Waliszewska mentioned at one point during our interaction, sounding like a proud, trusting parent wanting their children to be strong and independent individuals.”

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What attracted me about these was the eerie, somewhat disturbing atmosphere, the often brutal visuals filled with violence, sex, decay, gloom, terror, or their implications.

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We are able to receive information and a version of the truth so quickly, our life and whims catered so precisely, that when we see a work of art that feels unearthed from a different realm we begin to understand what is to be surprised.

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“Look there are a million things that are gnawing away at our peace of mind every damn day. Our job is to let it just pass through us and not judge it or attach to it like a good zen practitioner. Yea good luck with that."

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It felt almost mischievous, even a little dangerous, to be driving from Rome to the south of Italy in the middle of the night after a flight from San Francisco...

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Most people say it was the pandemic where everyone just sort of lost their ability to be courteous or even cordial or even a bit aware in public spaces, or driving a car, or waiting in line...

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“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing… To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.”

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In the end, this striking series of “portraits without sitters” is more about creating a model of a (type of) person or their presence than portraying an actual person.

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We are on this road together, all following each other in harmony and, sometimes, stuck in place yet somehow always moving.

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Metalheads portrayed within Renaissance compositions and structures, painted with a mix of Toulouse-Lautrec or Munch’s techniques, palette, and the general setting or ambiance.

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The work angles itself as an olive branch to some form of sanity, or an attempt at finding something open and calm, while the world falls apart around her.

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Two friends of mine, paired together in Paris, both calling Los Angeles home, and yet an unlikely pair. Mark Whalen and Salomon Huerta...

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Throughout his artistic career and his life in general, Greenwald has been primarily a maker, a hands-on person who loves experimenting with materials, techniques, and concepts.

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Art rewards those willing to think like a detective. Understanding a work of art means leaning into that mystery, and following its scent down a long trail of clues, symbols, and intentions.

Listen to the new Unibrow Radio episode...

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Maybe it’s his name? There is a mystery there, too, like an author from the early 20th century, a pen name, a sort of moniker that leaves a little sense of discovery.

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