Issue 93
Remembering Ginger Murchison
Poetry
Aliyah Cotton
Kenton K. Yee
Dan Kraines
Bryan Byrdlong
Virginia Konchan
John Brooks
Molly Fisk
Michael Dhyne
John Gallaher
Emily Schulten
Jordan Escobar
Matthew Kelsey
Jen Siraganian
Loisa Fenichell
Kevin Bertolero
Eli V. Rahm
Rhoni Blankenhorn
Gabriella Fee
Jane Zwart
Anna Tomlinson
David Laverty
Jennifer Jordan
Marisa P. Clark
Huan He
Heidi Seaborn
Daniel Ruiz
Teja Dupree
Mary Peelen
Brandon Krieg
Sara Michas-Martin
Matthew Nienow
Ben Togut
Lauren Delapenha
RJ Gibson
Robyn Groth
Alfredo Antonio Arevalo
Natalie Louise Tombasco
Jason Tandon
Jenny McBride
Kristina Andersson Bicher
Chard deNiord
Christian Wessels
Reviews
Spencer Hupp reviews Paul Muldoon’s JOY IN SERVICE ON THE RUE TAGORE
David Rigsbee reviews Floyd Collins’s WALKING PAST MIDNIGHT: SELECTED POEMS
On The Cover: Fedor Deichmann
Untitled (2024), Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
Born in 1988, Fedor Deichmann grew up in Germany in a family of artists and musicians. His early exposure to visual art, painting alongside his father Felix Deichmann (1936-2010), led to development of a style that combines figuration and abstraction. His work also reflects a multicultural and gender-neutral perspective nurtured by his Korean mother, pianist Young-Hee Kim.
Exploring the potential of painting as sculptural object, Fedor works with heavy layers of oil paint. With his interest in meditative and synesthetic experiences, he views painting as a means to train the eye and cultivate a specific emotional and environmental sensitivity. He also believes painting should have the power to nourish the spirit and open the way into a world of the sublime and the beautiful. Although Fedor’s art explores both abstraction and figuration, these two styles serve each other. He uses abstract language to paint figuration, and the figurative form serves his abstract language, rather than the other way around.
Fedor focuses more on the materiality of paint than on social critique or identity politics. Regardless of his subject matter, his primary concerns remain color, form and texture. Sources of inspiration include the perceptions of nature, classical music, East Asian spiritual practices and post-Impressionist European painting.
Fedor received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale in 2011, where he also served as a museum guide at the Yale University Art Gallery. Upon graduating, he first pursued a career in the corporate world. During this period, he continued to paint as an avocation, but his commitment to painting gradually intensified, until April 2021, when he decided to pursue painting full-time. Recent exhibitions include a solo show in June at Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy (2022), a solo show in December at ArtCenter, Pasadena, USA (2023), a group show in May at White Columns, New York, USA (2024), and a solo exhibition at the Pit (2024).
Mentored by internationally renowned artists such as Laura Owens, Diana Thater and Stan Douglas, Fedor is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA. There he also serves as a teaching assistant to Jack Bankowsky, Artforum Editor-at-Large. Fedor is expected to graduate in 2025.
Instagram: @fedordeichmann