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Squinch is an undergrad art magazine featuring a collective of artists and writers from various college campuses! We began in 2017 at Boston University.

Squinch is an undergraduate art magazine which aims to highlight visual arts culture and nurture a collective interest in visual art. Squinch is a go-to source for the latest information about art events. Here, you can find editorial reviews of shows and exhibitions, essays that engage in art historical perspectives, features of local artists, listings of art news and current events, as well as ou

r monthly showcase of undergraduate student work, and more. Squinch believes in the power of a creative community, and provides a space for students fully engage in exploration of the visual arts.

15/02/2023

Nan Goldin, Picnic on the Esplanade, Boston, 1973

Nan Goldin began her photography career in her teenage years living in Boston. Goldin began taking black-and-white photographs and eventually moved to color like this photograph, Picnic on the Esplanade, of her friends in the transgender community in Boston in the early 1970s. Goldin’s first show in New York displayed her unique snap-shot-like photographs; she was quickly praised for her groundbreaking contribution to fine art photography and secured her place as a respected artist in the New York photography scene of the 70s. Goldin’s aptitude for photography is met by the equally compelling subjects she explores: such as LGBTQ+ subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Now, Goldin has shifted her subjects to scenes of parenthood and domesticity in increasingly international settings.

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11/02/2023

Jenny Saville, The Bride, 1992

Jenny Saville’s large-scale paintings depict women from unusual and distorted angles that challenge our notions of beauty. Through her painting style, Saville combines elements of Renaissance portraiture, Fauvist techniques, and Abstract Expressionism that nod to classical or outdated representations of womanhood and fertility. Saville’s portraits comment on the contemporary obsession with the figure and through the exaggerated realness have been described as embodying a ‘feminist aesthetics of disgust.’

06/02/2023

Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1881-82
One of his last paintings Monet plays on reality in a way that distorts it to fit a perspective. The photo's play on the idea of still life without the realistic aspect. Manet was really able to capture the soft feelings that come with moments in life while also allowing people to think about the painting as a piece of art.

by .bin

31/01/2023

Welcome to our new series !

“Jonathan Baldock: we are flowers of one garden” at Stephan Friedman Gallery in London.

Baldock explores the meaning of being alive through organic materials: clay and textiles derived from the earth. His sculptures entice the viewer to create an engrossing feeling. This emphasizes their macabre and performance art qualities.

by .ludwig

31/01/2023

11/12/2022

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07/12/2022

The Squinch team is excited to announce our Resurrection Edition is launching December 11th, 2022! Let the countdown begin…

21/09/2022

After 2 years at rest, experience our RESURRECTION - now accepting applications (link in bio)

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