Eileen Ryan’s Codex No. 1–3 (left) and Spiritual Microbiomes (right)
Eileen Ryan is a New England–based interdisciplinary artist who explores intersections between art, science, and spirituality, often drawing on her background in microbiology....
Tom Gick Portrait of the artist’s grandmother
At the start of the last century, plenty of artists claimed to be mystics....
Images from Michael Petry’s Gifts of Apollo (top) and At the Foot of the Gods (bottom)
What happens to old gods? As fantasy writers from Neil Gaiman to George R. R....
Staying awake for Easter
What ritual remedies exist to sharpen our spiritual attention, focus, and clarity?
Antonio McAfee’s Afternoon of the Deluge (Ocean) and Evening of the Deluge (Standing on Water)
Antonio McAfee’s art addresses the complexity of representation, especially of African Americans, through restless formal experimentation....
Strange Histories series, original 35 mm slide collages (2013–present), by Ian Trask
I grew up hearing the whir, flutter, and occasional clunk of my father’s slide projector in the dining room as he practiced lectures about his latest medical research....
From Hemosapien series, by Jordan Eagles
Jordan Eagles isn’t the first modern artist to work with blood. But he stands out for his sustained, scrupulous attention to its possibilities as a medium....
Well (stereoscopic installation, loop, 2017), by Arent Weevers
Arent Weevers is a Dutch pastor and grief counselor as well as an artist, and the images he creates speak to deep experiences of loss and vulnerability. He comments on his work:...
Koson Door, by Gol Kamra (Dua Abbas and Jahanzeb Haroon)
Jahanzeb Haroon and Dua Abbas are a husband-and-wife duo based in Lahore, Pakistan....
Laquan McDonald (from the series In the Wake), by Jared Thorne
Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager, was walking away from Chicago police in 2014 when he was shot 16 times by an officer, who was later convicted of murder on the basis of video footage suppressed b...
Sublunary Embrace, by Alyssa Coffin
One morning this autumn my brother woke to ash falling from the sky outside his window in Montana. He leapt out of bed, worried that his apartment building was on fire. It wasn’t....
Ten Commandments and a Question, by Joel Silverstein
Joel Silverstein’s paintings can be deadly serious and deeply funny, often at the same time....