Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (2022)

Outcalls' third studio album, Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (2022) is a response to former Recording Academy president Neil Portnow’s infamous statement in 2018 implying that women needed to “step up” if they wanted equal representation in the music industry. The 11-track album by writing team Britt Olsen-Ecker and Melissa Wimbish is a showcase of woman-fronted collaboration and was released on February 4, 2022.

Finding Ryukyu: Theater of Tacit Operations

Chinen Aimi works as a detective investigating matrilineal and patrilineal histories. She is an artist born in Okinawa, Japan, former Ryukyu Kingdom, to a native mother and a United States Marine father. Through framing territories of contradiction she analyzes the duality of everyday gender, power and war. Her art is the process of discovery and findings of matrilineal histories colonized by patriarchal narratives.

En La Tierra de Agüeybaná

My paintings are collages of inherited memories, framed like a photograph, by symbols of post-colonial history. I grew up in Güayanilla, Puerto Rico, a land preserved in time. A place where people relive their childhoods, growing amid the colonial labors of sugarcane production. My paintings are imagined memories tied within the space of post-colonization. I return to the same land and trace the mannerisms that stem from that fraught history, capturing colonialization’s remnants. A time of mirroring the then and the now through the same land.

Hurts So Good

This work dives into the familiar scramble to find calm when chaos is swirling around us, and the go-to humor we call on to brighten the moment or lighten the load. So often we feel steady, comfortable, in control, and then the lights go out, a wave comes—  these moments knock us over, forcing us to push through, reset the meter to reset, and start from the beginning. We make jokes to ease the tension and make it through the turbulence that comes our way.

Presence In Absence

These paintings begin as encounters in landscapes, particularly those marked by geological “deep time.” They bear witness to human interventions in these landscapes, and to our interactions with the non-human world. Such interventions reify systems of control and speak to notions of access- specifically, to who has access to nature and natural resources. Portions of the picture plane seem to be torn away or excised, revealing flat passages of chromatic grays, blacks, and browns.

Sacred Geometry - Book Arts

This large-scale artist book includes images by DeVane and poetry by Washington-based educator, Donna Denize, that was created in response to the Garrett Collection in the library at the Evergreen House, which is a part of the Johns Hopkins University Museums. "The book is inspired from many sources… although my purpose in structuring the book using the circle, triangle and the square was to explore their cosmological symbolism.

Luminis

In this series I am building illumination through the use of material form, responding to observations of glowing of light from different worldy and environmental sources. I utilize collected imagery and memory of events to create compositions that develop a real sense of light through the use of paint. Some of these images, however abstracted, look at the gathering of people assembled in candlelight vigils, holding flames for healing, memorializing, and celebrating life. As an artist I most often work in isolation, but am affected by contemporary events and my place within them.

Issue No. 1 Solo Exhibition

Full Circle Gallery presents Issue No. 1, a solo exhibition featuring collage works by Bria Sterling-Wilson. Sterling-Wilson pieces together the complex interpersonal narrative of the Black American experience.

Gleaned from fashion magazines, newspapers, and even torn fabric, Sterling-Wilson recomposes images of bodies, forms, textures and visual tropes into evocative representations that investigate race and identity.

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