John Mann: Terra Incognita
According to his website, rockpapercloud.com, John Mann “makes images.” Which means, to some, that he dwells more in the realm of ideas than objects; images, after all, are projections, Platonic ideals of form rather than their messy, concrete realizations, full of compromise and accommodation, that often fall short of the mark.
To create his work—because one [...]
David Goldes: Nothing on Faith
By George Slade
En route to a doctorate in physics, David Goldes realized that he wasn’t a scientist. Scientists reduce complexity, with a goal of distilling unified theory out of chaos and ambiguity. Science likes to name, while art likes open-endedness and is willing to accept multiple answers to questions about unquantifiable, elusive topics such as [...]