Cover image for Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey's exhibition catalog, titled Alice Neel: People Come First

Portraits (and) Matter

Siona Wilson reviews the exhibition Alice Neel: People Come First as well as Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey’s catalog

Color photograph with a frontal view of an abstract ceramic portrait head that appears to be made from a long coil of clay. The outline of two eyes, a nose, a mouth, and two ears are affixed to its surface. The object is a monochromatic black with a slight sheen to the glaze.

The Weight of Matter: Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Glenn Adamson in Conversation

How the materiality of clay mirrors the body