Create! Magazine Issue No. 58: In Full Color
The new issue of Create! Magazine is here! Inside, we explore how artists working in paint, thread, public space, and pure color arrive at the questions that drive their work, followed by a featured artists section curated by gallerist and advisor Liz Lidgett.
Explore interviews with working contemporary artists
Myth, Memory and the Diaspora
Inside the Studio with Marcos Alvarado (Cover Artist)
Alvarado's paintings draw on alchemical imagery and the layered histories of the Caribbean diaspora. In this interview, the artist walks through the symbols that recur across his work and the personal and collective memories behind them.
Stitching Together Queer Voices Across Four Generations: Quinn Tailor
For Tailor, the quilt is both object and archive. The artist discusses how textile work holds family history, queer community, and the stories that rarely make it into official records.
The French Touch in Curating Urban Art: Olivier Landes
Landes has built a curatorial practice around site-specific work in the public realm. The conversation covers how he selects artists, negotiates with cities, and thinks about an artwork's life once it belongs to a street rather than a gallery.
Color Transformations: Zifeng Zang
Zang's abstract paintings are built from color and chance. The artist describes a process that welcomes accident, and how movement on the surface becomes movement for the viewer.
Featured Artists, Curated by Liz Lidgett
This issue's featured artists section is guest curated by Liz Lidgett, an advisor, author, and gallery owner. As founder and CEO of Liz Lidgett Gallery and Design, she helps clients find the right work for their style, space, and budget, serving personal and corporate collections through her full-service advising firm. She writes about culture for national publications, holds a Master's in Curatorial Practice in the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California, and has worked with organizations across California and Iowa. Her selection for this issue brings the same collaborative eye she applies to every collection she builds.
Congratulations to the featured artists:
Giulia Aim, Evi Antonio, Tasneem Arif, Katie Aronat, Michele Aschenbrenner, Jeanette Bayoumi, Pamela A. Beck, Melyssa Beshara, Rachel Grace Borntrager, Matthew Borowick, Reuben Cheatem, Gemma Di Grazia, Alycia Earhart, Rosie Fitzgerrel, Kyle Goderwis, Anastasia Greer, Umbreen Hasan, Ashley Hendrix, Monica Henry, Theresa Hong, Wade Kramm, Lu Loveless, Lesley Luce, Erin Middleton, Jennifer L. Mohr, Rachel Murphy, Leah Oates, Ashley Perez, Courtney Kenny Porto, Shari Ellen Schwartz, Beth Shadur, Shelby Shadwell, Monica Shulman, Nikki Storer, Annie Straka, Carolyn Sweeney, Jed Tamarkin, Sarah Jane Tart, Carmen Vranau, and Cynthia Young.
Get the Issue
Issue No. 58 is available now in print and digital editions at https://amzn.to/4gYqaj4. Order a copy for your studio, your coffee table, or a friend who collects, and spend some time with the artists shaping contemporary art today.
