LITRO’S INAUGURAL EMERGING ART SECTION

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t is apropos that Litro’s Inaugural Emerging Art Section is featured

Iin the experimental edition of the magazine. All of the arts share in the pursuit of discovery—finding new ways to represent, view, and understand reality. With this inherently comes experimentation and the ongoing process of forming and implementing new ideas and methods. Experimental art is a purposefully broad category, meant to give artists free reign to imagine and create work that is unbounded by Who is your favorite emerging any preconceived notion of what artist in this section? art, experimental or Vote by scanning the QR code. otherwise, should be. The artists and work featured in this section are on the cutting edge of art being made today, and all engage with the breadth of meaning contained in the word “experimental.” Though the mediums or ideas presented may reference traditional modes of art making, they are still boundary pushing in the ideas and methods they employ. Experiments often fail, which is why it is so compelling—both in literature and visual art—when an experiment works. It is then a call to action for the viewer to feel, think, or consider the world from a different perspective. ●

Diana Buitrago is originally from Colombia, and lives and works in New York City and Jersey City. They were trained in the classical Atelier Method, and their work falls largely under the tradition of Classical Realism. Their aim is to bring the tradition of the Old Masters to a contemporary reality.

Reclining Pose, Oil on Linen (Framed) 2018

William, Oil on Linen, 16x20 inch, 2018 Back Pose, Oil on Linen, 2017

Aluu Prosper (b. 1999) is from Afikpo North, in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. He is a multidisciplinary, self-taught visual artist that creates art that requires the fusion of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art forms, fusing oil paints and sand in paintings that focus on Afrocentrism and Pan-Africanism with surrealism and mannerism.

Alluu Prosper. The hour has come, 2022. Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm).

Alluu Prosper. Who’s there?, 2022. Oil on primed panel, 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm).

Amy Bassin is an artist from New York City who uses photography, video, moving images, and works on paper to explore power struggles, survival, and personal histories in relation to socio-political events. She is co-founder of the international artists’ collective, Urban Dialogues.

Amy Bassin. Ethereal Landscape 106, 2022. Archival inkjet print, 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm).

Amy Bassin. Ethereal Landscape 107, 2022. Archival inkjet print, 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm).

Amy Bassin. Ethereal Landscape 118, 2022. Archival inkjet print, 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm).

Iman Jabrah is a Palestinian American multidisciplinary artist currently based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her main focus is to shed light on the losses one cannot control, and how the fragments of these memories remain to linger as a form of identity. In 2022, Jabrah received Artswave’s Truth and Reconciliation grant to sponsor the exhibition Amid during her curator-inresidence at Wave Pool gallery; Amid showcases artworks by Palestinian artists from the West Bank and diaspora.

Iman Jabrah. The Map of Palestine, 2022. Thorn sculpture and digital projection, dimensions variable.

Iman Jabrah. Make America Great Again, 2021. Sculpture photography, 36 x 36 in. (91.5 x 91.5 cm).

Iman Jabrah. Three Factors, 2021. Sculpture photography, 36 x 36 in. (91.5 x 91.5 cm).