Katherine Hubbard’s The Great Room and Beyond: Oddkin in the Expanded Darkroom of the Photobook - ASAP/Review The mirrored closet doors are part of a collection of architectural salvage. Once obtained, they sit in an already stuffed-full house in upstate New York. During the COVID-19 pandemic their new owner,...

Our newest feature by David Berridge on Katherine Hubbard is out now!

“A connection of photographic processes to daily lives that is not solely metaphorical and analogous, and/or something reflexively foregrounded through choices of grain, focus, and exposure...”

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Reimagined Horrors of Ibadan: A Review of Thematic Concerns and Yoruba Significance in The Years of Blood by Adedayo Agarau - ASAP/Review Displacement, Paul Liam observes in a review-essay, is a central aesthetic in the poetics of diasporic writers, either subconsciously or not, in such a way that the exiled writer is constantly questio...

Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo writes on Adedayo Agarau: “Unlike his contemporaries, the blend of real and imagined events/entities in The Years of Blood pushes the poetics beyond real-life catastrophes, hinting at a certain level of traditional sensibility.”

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Saúl Hernández Vargas’s Transborder Relics - ASAP/Review Note: An English translation follows in the second half of this article. Frotando el pulgar contra un trozo de plata, Saúl Hernández Vargas me cuenta que en los 1960s, en una escuela primaria de Marfa...

Finally, Paloma Checa-Gismero's (@palomacg.bsky.social) bi-lingual review elucidates Saúl Hernández-Vargas’s remediation of Mexican relics in the borderland context.

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Archiving Queer Futures: On Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin - ASAP/Review Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin make art that mines pre-Stonewall queer stories across the United States. Deeply researched both in the archives and through oral histories and community engagement—the ...

Zora Duncan investigates how the artist duo of Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin speculatively archive queer communities throughout the United States.

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Communities of Liquid Care and Poetic Embodiments: Upon Review in the Works of JD Pleucker, Mariposa Tejada, M. Miranda Maloney, and Stalina Villarreal - ASAP/Review If the body is a container full of thoughts, feeling, and affective resonances, then what can we make of the ways that time demands our senses spill out of, and into, us? What does it mean…

Jered Mabaquiao outlines the culture of care developed in the collaboration among four poets and language workers who presented collectively at the Showcase: JD Pleucker, Mariposa Tejada, M. Miranda Maloney, and Stalina Villarreal.

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An Alternative Lexicon for Living: Lovie Olivia’s “Black Material Story” - ASAP/Review The black box theater of Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts might seem like a puzzling place for an introduction to Lovie Olivia’s art. But it was precisely right. The performative, the kinet...

Tara Holman explores the visual work of Lovie Olivia, who aims, in her own words, “to tell a black story through material.”

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The Possibility of Movement: On Kristina Kay Robinson - ASAP/Review Kristina Kay Robinson makes art that speaks and feels, that resounds and echoes, distilling centuries of meaning into singular cacophonous moments that speculate alternate histories and future revolut...

Sarah Buckner lays out how Kristina Kay Robinson’s performance and installation work speculate an alternative world in which an 1811 uprising of enslaved people marching towards New Orleans was successful in establishing a free republic.

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Operatic Dreaming: On Lisa E. Harris - ASAP/Review Lisa E. Harris introduced herself to the audience gathered for her artist presentation at ASAP/16 with a knowing caveat: “It’s a thing to have a bio.” Harris, an artist whose multimedia practice incor...

Thea Ballard discusses the operatic work of Lisa Harris in the context of the gentrification of Houston’s historically Black Third Ward.

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Earthwork as Futurity: Ida Aronson and the Nanih Bvlbancha Project - ASAP/Review By relegating Native communities to a position of perpetual pastness, settler colonialism situates them at what Denise Ferreira da Silva posits as the “horizon of death,” forever receding rather than ...

Waleska Solorzano reports on the work of Ida Aronson, whose collaborations in New Orleans include the creation of an earthen mound bridging Indigenous pasts and futures.

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Transfiguring the Human: A Speculative (Un)Becoming: On Makeda (Christopher Paul) - ASAP/Review Entering the scene of Makeda (Christopher Paul)’s Temporal Estrangement: A Path to No Place (2025), I am immediately plunged into its speculative and sensorial worlds. A braided copper wire basket is ...

Istifaa Ahmed discusses the work of Christopher Paul, who remediates Black trans experience through diverse media forms.

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Luminous Opacity: Anahita Bradberry’s “Spectral Field” - ASAP/Review It wasn’t until half the crowd had stopped talking that I noticed that a woman was dancing. The rest of the crowd hummed on, enjoying the opening party of ASAP/16. We were at the Midtown Arts…

Moya Li writes about plasma artist Ani Bradberry, whose installation at DiverseWorks also provided the site for ASAP/16’s opening reception.

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Worldmaking/Worldbreaking: Reports from the ASAP/16 Gulf Coast Artist Showcase - ASAP/Review This cluster of essays engages with the work of regional artists who presented in the Gulf Coast Artist Showcase that ran throughout the 16th annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Art...

We used “ASAP’s trademark slash,” writes Michael Dango “as a means of representing the ambivalence of living on and making art in the present: the twinned cravings, in the face of multiple overlapping crises, both to craft utopia and to burn it all down.”
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NEW CLUSTER ALERT

Worldmaking/Worldbreaking: Reports from the ASAP/16 Gulf Coast Artist Showcase

Ed. Michael Dango
&&Feat.
Moya Li
Istifaa Ahmed
Waleska Solorzano
Thea Ballard
Sarah Buckner
Tara Holman
Jered Mabaquiao
Zora Duncan
Paloma Checa-Gismero

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Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy at Esker Foundation - ASAP/Review During my visit to Jana Sterbak’s retrospective on opening night, I did not immediately recognize the famed “meat dress,” Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic (1987). The flank steak from whic...

In our newest, Margaryta Golovchenko reviews artist Jana Sterbak’s Dimensions of Intimacy: “The flank steak from which [Vanitas] was stitched shone in the gallery light and reflected such a soft sheen that it recalled a satin nightgown eagerly awaiting to be put on…”

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Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...

“Taken together,” this cluster “suggest[s] that artistic representation can reveal what is often hidden. In the case of abortion—often illegal, shameful, known more through whisper networks than official archives—so much is concealed.” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“What would our resistance look like if we thought more about aesthetics? What new kinds of resistance might emerge if aesthetics were central to our conceptualization of reproductive resistance?” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

"Beyoncé’s version of motherhood—one that draws from cultural history while responding to the present and looking toward the future—represents a version that is deeply needed during this time of great reproductive restriction..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/house-m... @asapjournal.bsky.social

The Wing that Remains: Organic Afterlife of Ming Fay at The Campus - ASAP/Review 2025 Annual Exhibition, The Campus341 NY-217, Claverack, NYJune 28 — October 26, 2025 A soft light washes along the old school corridor. The air feels slightly cool, carrying the faint scent of tile a...

"Ming Fay’s posthumous presence is not memorial but mutation, a continuation of life in materials that refuse stillness."

Read @reneeyujin.bsky.social on Ming Fay, The Campus, papier-mâché skin, persistence and ruin, legacy and residue, sculpture, fruit, and more!

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“There is, unfortunately, an unironic similarity to Happy the Elephant’s quest for freedom and the continued fight for bodily and reproductive autonomy of human beings..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/her-bel... @asapjournal.bsky.social

From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion - ASAP/Review

Each day we will be sharing work from our new ASAP cluster, “From the Gaps: Art, Literature, and Abortion”: asapjournal.com/cluster/from...

“Those without access to power—to master discourse, whether because of race, gender, sexuality, economic status, nationality, religion, or other forms of identity that those with power seek to exclude—use code." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

From the Gaps / Political Representations / Samuel Alito’s Witch Hunt, Lydia Nobles’s Pleasure Trophies - ASAP/Review It is hard to describe abortion as a form of sexual freedom. Writing of art and abortion in 2009, when abortion was still legal across the country, Jennifer Doyle expressed this difficulty with eloque...

“It is hard to describe abortion as a form of sexual freedom. Writing of art and abortion in 2009, when abortion was still legal across the country, Jennifer Doyle expressed this difficulty with eloquence...” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

"The enduring presence of the image of the Virgin Mary in art about abortion illuminates a crisis in representation." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“Comstock’s network made regular headlines as they hounded those who aided and abetted bodily autonomy seekers. These laws limited discussions pertaining to bodily autonomy, which became tenuous at best and litigious at worst..." Read: asapjournal.com/node/aiding-... @asapjournal.bsky.social

From the Gaps / Con/textual Representations / Stand and Deliver! Experiencing Epitaphs of Roman Midwives in Funerary Contexts - ASAP/Review In Ancient Rome, male doctors were summoned during childbirth only if labor proved difficult. Instead, it was midwives who played the literal and figurative role of a physical and emotional support in...

“In Ancient Rome, male doctors were summoned during childbirth only if labor proved difficult. Instead, it was midwives who played the literal and figurative role of a physical and emotional support in childbirth...” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

"...alongside Milton’s descriptors, led me to ask questions about the biological function of the human uterus. And in that process, I discovered striking similarities between Milton’s warring chaos and a uterus during pregnancy." Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

“By staging the abortion as a crime scene scattered with the abortionist’s dubious tools & techniques, [the work] also functions as a grotesquely ruinous parody of the artist’s studio—& thus positions Kienholz as the abortionist.” Read: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social

Paula Rego is often called a remarkable storyteller as her work is deeply ingrained with narrative—sometimes personal, entangled with family & childhood memories, individual politics, experiences, feelings & emotions” Read: asapjournal.com/node/embodim... @asapjournal.bsky.social @jmss3.bsky.social

“Sontag’s description of the fascist seduction as a process of “purification” that transformed “sexual energy into ‘spiritual force’ for the benefit of the community” aligns with the self-described pro-life movement in America.” Read here: asapjournal.com/node/from-th... @asapjournal.bsky.social