Studio Snapshot

• I published Status Update Volume I by Stephanie Barber and Lauren Bender! And A.F. Oehmke featured it on The Internet is Exploding, her weekly list of Ten Must-Read Articles on BmoreArt. And you can buy it on ctrlp.org!
• I got to work on some new projects last month during my residency in Montreal with Pigment Sauvage. We used Galerie B-312 as a shared studio space (pictured above), which is also where we'll have a group show with the Canadian artists that are part of the project next year.
• I'll have a video in the Maryland State Artist Registry Juried Exhibition at Maryland Art Place. Join me for the opening reception this Thursday, September 19 from 6-9pm.
• My first group show at Hamiltonian Gallery, new. now., opens Saturday, September 28 at 7pm at the gallery in DC.
• Read Michael Anthony Farley's review of HaHa by Rachel Debuque at ICA Baltimore on BmoreArt. "Debuque's HaHa is a fitting coda to a season of artist playfully grappling with the unrealistic expectation that we must all always be productive and must all always enjoy it.

Five Faves ~ Mixtape Edition

1. Territory by The Blaze & all of their lovely music videos.
2. I Drive by Lower Dens (especially <3 the shoutout to brushhouse / Bonnie Crawford)
3. :3lon, the mesmerizing opener for Lower Dens at Rituals and chorus vocals for above.
4. Lana Del Rey's new album Norman Fucking Rockwell, but especially hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have.
5. I Wouldn't Ask You to Take Care of Me by Clairo (it's like two songs in one! see 3:19).

100 Words

Status Update Vol I by Stephanie Barber & Lauren Bender

Stephanie Barber has been posting haiku to Facebook every day since 2010. At once quotidian and monumental, Status Update Volume I catalogs that first year. Each haiku is paired with an illustration by Lauren Bender, which are not illustrations at all, but rather descriptions of drawings she would do if she were to illustrate each haiku. Extracted from the jumble of news articles, events, and comments, the poems are made available to the public for the first time. As the cultural role of Facebook ebbs and flows, Barber persistently responds to the platform’s incessant query, “What’s on your mind?”

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