Sediment, the ninth annual edition of the Journal of Art Criticism interrogates notions of burying, layering, and unearthing in the dynamic world of contemporary art and criticism.
This edition features eleven original works from artists across the country, including Maya Anne, Steffie Chau, Jacob Dunlop, Jade Freed, Natalie Jenkins, Meinzer, Victoria Reshetnikov, and Kevin Sparkowich. The artworks evoke sedimentation beyond literal connotations of earthly processes such as palimpsests of group identity. Alongside our printed issue, JAC features the film girl unearthed by Evelyn Cao on our website. Sediment also features four essays by Ella Myers, Iker Veiga, Shaela Sageth, and Brooke Brady-Cronce.
The writers and artists of this issue were selected for their engagement with transnational concerns of collective and generational memory, human relationship with the material and natural world, and preservation of culture in the age of neocolonialism. Questions of the residual and fragmented, the settled and unsettled, and preservation and erosion come to frame their expansive inquiry of visual representations of sediment. -Publisher
