Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Conversation Andrew Stahl and Guo Xiaohui The exhibition Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House in London (12 March–2 April 2019) marked the historic contributions of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the occasion of their 100th and 150th anniversaries, respectively. Spread across several rooms of Somerset House's...
Ocula Report The National 2019: New Australian Art 13 Apr 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The National 2019: New Australian Art features work by 70 contemporary Australia-based artists split across three venues: the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) (29 March–21 July 2019), as curated by Isobel Parker Philip, curator of photographs at AGNSW; Daniel Mudie Cunningham,...
Joel Morrison (born 1976 in Seattle, Washington) is an American artist working primarily in sculpture based in Los Angeles. He received his BA in English Literature from Central Washington University before receiving his MFA in sculpture from Claremont Graduate University, California. With works in numerous private collections and museums, Morrison operates on a global platform with recent exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery Hong Kong, 2012, Gallery Almine Rech in Brussels, 2012, Paris, 2014, and London, 2015, Alon Segev in Tel Aviv, 2016, and Reflex Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2017.
