Paul Mendez’s Rainbow Milk

By Tony Leuzzi

MARCH 2021 | Books

Distinguished by its gritty realism, Rainbow Milk is among the more convincing debuts I have read in years.

Jennifer Bolande: Persistence of Vision

By Tim Maul

JUNE 2023 | ArtSeen

1986! That year the high tide of postmodernism and a vibrant market floated many boats. Locally, the art world cast a decadent eye upon glamorized readymades and cringe-y appropriations of biker culture. Jennifer Bolande’s eye, no less decadent, mediated the aftershock of the spectacle originating a complex body of work around, among many other things, splashes of milk, inert Marshall amps, and the neglected furniture in porn movies.

Steeped in Spilled Milk pt.2

By Dana Notine

JUNE 2022 | ArtSeen

Steeped is defiant and elegant in its selection of varied media, united by simultaneous delicacy and strength; a complex and individualized breed of alterity riddled with conflicting experiences of both pleasure and pain, love and hatred, danger and desire.

23. 1950-1992, Spain

By Raphael Rubinstein

OCT 2022 | The Miraculous

Leaves school at 12 to sing in the streets
for coins that buy bread, milk and cigarettes. At 16, departs his isla for Málaga and the Taberna Gitana. A few months later he’s in Madrid