This fall, Aperture magazine presents an issue exploring the idea
of cosmologies-the origins, histories, and local universes that
artists create for themselves. In an exclusive interview, Greg Tate
speaks to Deana Lawson about how her monumental staged portraits
trace cosmologies of the African diaspora. "What I'm doing
integrates mythology, religion, empirical data, dreams," says
Lawson, whose work is the subject of major solo exhibitions this
year at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston. In an in-depth profile of Judith Joy
Ross and her iconic portraiture, Rebecca Bengal shows how a
constellation of strangers is brought together through Ross's
precise, empathic gaze. "Ross is guided by a rapt, intense,
wholehearted belief in the individual," Bengal writes. A portfolio
of Michael Schmidt's acutely observed work from the 1970s and '80s
reveals the realms within realms of a once divided Berlin, while
Feng Li's surprising black-and-white snapshots zigzag between
absurdist dramas in various Chinese cities. Ashley James distills
the surreal visions of Awol Erizku's still lifes and tableaux;
Casey Gerald contributes a sweeping ode to Baldwin Lee's stirring
1980s portraits of Black Southern subjects; and Pico Iyer meditates
on Tom Sandberg's grayscales marked by both absence and reverence.
Throughout "Cosmologies," artists cast their attention on the great
mysteries of both personal and shared lineages, tracking their
locations in space, time, and history, and reminding us of the
elegant enigmas that can be unraveled close to home.
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