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Tatiana Garmendia

September 27, 2012 Studio

Artist: TATIANA GARMENDIA
Curated by AMY SANDE-FRIEDMAN

Tatiana Garmendia was inspired to create this series of work, which includes both embroideries stitched into military netting and drawings on paper, by a conversation she had with a veteran who had recently returned from serving in Iraq. Marrying poses from Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment, the altar fresco in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, with portraits of soldiers in contemporary military uniforms, she created scenes that refer both to the landscape of present day war and an artistic interpretation of heaven.

Studies

April 9, 2012 Poetry

By AMELIA GRAY

Slush

Not enough snow to stick, Mother says. A pissing thin layer of the saddest slick. Even the road made visible underneath. Used to be you could die in a winter, wander right off the road and dead in a field before you had your second thought, but these days everyone gets to their destination. Have you ever arrived in a springtime with your entire family intact?

On and Off the Map

April 1, 2012 Issue 03, Issue 03 Art

By MICHAEL KELLY

Maps are one way humans make sense of their environment. In this age of Google Earth, where a few mouse clicks call up a satellite image of almost any inch of the globe, it can be difficult to imagine a time when maps were often based as much on hearsay and guesswork as scientific surveying.

Ingres at the Morgan

November 1, 2011 Issue 02, Issue 02 Art

By ESTHER BELL
From September 9 to November 27, 2011, The Morgan Library & Museum presents seventeen exquisite drawings and some letters by French master Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. In this issue, The Common publishes four drawings from the exhibition.

Read an interview between editor Jennifer Acker and curator Esther Bell about these drawings and the artist’s refined sense of place here.

Moonscapes

March 1, 2011 Issue 01, Issue 01 Art

By MICHAEL KELLY

From the very dawn of the new technology, photographers sought to capture images of the heavens. In 1839 Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre—inventor of the daguerreotype—attempted to shoot the moon, with little success. As photographic technology developed throughout the nineteenth century, it became an important tool in many branches of scientific inquiry. James Nasmyth’s book, The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, is one of the most curious examples of Victorian scientific publishing.

Over the River and Down with the Woods?

February 14, 2011 Dispatches

By GENELLE DIAZ-SILVEIRA

The year is 1972, and as you’re driving along the highway in Rifle, Colorado, a giant orange curtain appears, looming vibrantly over a distant valley. Or, maybe it’s 1997 and you’re in Switzerland. You’ve decided it’s a nice day for a walk in Berrower Park when you notice there’s something different about the trees—namely that they’re covered in gargantuan sheets of polyester fabric.

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Tatiana Garmendia

Studies

On and Off the Map

Ingres at the Morgan

Moonscapes

Over the River and Down with the Woods?

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