Oaxaca's radical street artists won't be muzzled
A typically pointed work by Oaxaca artist Yescka “Oh that’s pretty. What a nice combination of colors.” That is Yescka, a prominent Oaxaca City graffiti artist, dismissing with a mirthless chuckle street art he considers divorced from the political and/or social context in which it’s made. It’s a judgment that neatly sums up the aesthetic stance of this increasingly visible state capital’s cadre of sprayers and stencilers and splatters, one that can be traced back – at least
Artist Profile: Annamarie Pabst
As artists, the sources of our inspiration are rarely chosen deliberately; they choose us, seizing our imagination and wringing from us works which offer a version of themselves filtered through our own particular psyches. Annamarie Pabst’s path from the porcine and balletic to the searing and bleak involves multiple continents and large temporal leaps. There will be no pat explanations, however; assigning fixed meaning to works of art is most often clumsy and destructive wor