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We're Hiring! A Call for Readers

31 May 2015
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  Apogee Journal is currently looking for highly motivated and critically minded readers to review submissions in collaboration with our Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction editors. Our submissions are open 4 months out of the year, and last issue we received nearly a thousand submissions. As we continue to grow, we expect to receive even more!   If you are interested in being considered for the position, please email editors@apogeejournal.org by July 1st with the following items: *A Resume or CV * A cover letter that answers the following questions:         1. What genre(s) are you interested in reading for?         2. What do you believe makes a successful piece of writing in chosen genre?         3. Which contemporary writers work are you most interested in, and why?         4. Are you familiar with the mission of Apogee Journal? Why are you interested in working with us? Apogee Journal focuses on publishing art and literature that engage with issues of identity politics: race, gender, sexuality, class, and hyphenated identities. Our goal is to publish exciting work that interrogates the status quo, providing a platform for unheard voices, including emerging...
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APOGEE ISSUE 05 PREVIEW: Richard Hart

27 May 2015
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  Apogee Issue 05 launches TOMORROW, May 28th. Here is our 6th exclusive preview, from the brilliant Richard Hart.     Craving Miracles, 2012 Oil on panel 22.5 x 37 inches   RICHARD HART began exhibiting as a visual artist in 2009 after working for many years as a graphic designer and illustrator. Although his practice encompasses a diverse array of disciplines Hart thinks of painting as being at the core of his activities. His work is rooted in the experience of an outsider who has lived his life in Africa, and concerns itself with the spiritual landscape of Africa. It takes its cues from ritual, witchcraft and muti, as well as religious movements such as Shembe and the Zionist movement, weaving together factual and fictive narratives to speculate on an Africa that might be. Hart’s work has been exhibited in New York, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Cape Town and Durban.
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APOGEE ISSUE 05 PREVIEW: Mickalene Thomas

25 May 2015
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  Apogee Issue 05 launches in 3 days! Here is our 5th exclusive preview: ‘A Little Taste Outside of Love’ by the talented Mickalene Thomas.     A Little Taste Outside of Love, 2007 Rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel on wood panel 108 x 144 inches 274.3 x 365.8 cm   MICKALENE THOMAS is a distinguished, multidisciplinary visual artist who earned her BFA in painting at Pratt Institute, and MFA at Yale University School of Art. She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally since 2003. Her fist solo museum exhibition was in 2012 at Brooklyn Museum and Santa Monica Museum. Recent solo exhibitions include George Eastman House, New York; L’Ecole des Beaux Art, Monaco; First International Contemporary Art Biennial, Columbia; as well as group exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass, Amherst; and La Conservera Contemporary Art Centre, Ceutí, Spain. Thomas’s work is in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as the Seattle Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among...
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Coming of Age in the Time of the Hoodie

22 May 2015
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By Sarah Ladipo Manyika This excerpted essay was originally featured on AGNI Online. My son’s self-portrait, age fifteen. Work in progress. Earlier this year I decided to read Joe Brainard’s cult classic, I Remember. The book had long intrigued me for I had heard that it was widely taught in creative writing courses and was a favorite of many authors, including several well-known authors whose work I admire. I was immediately drawn to Brainard’s style, each line starting with the words “I remember.” As I read it, I found myself jotting down remembrances of my own, complementing Brainard’s memories of America with my memories of Nigeria. I was enjoying this little book, reading it slowly, taking my time to appreciate the beauty and originality of the writing while remembering and reminiscing. It was a soothing and creative project until I came to this: I remember feeling sorry for black people, not because I thought they were persecuted, but because I thought they were ugly. I remember gasping. I remember thinking, So this is what Zora Neale Hurston meant when she wrote, “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.” I remember ugly. I remember not wanting...
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APOGEE ISSUE 05 PREVIEW: Jason Larkin

18 May 2015
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  Today we’re featuring Jason Larkin’s work.     Untitled, Cairo, 2010 Giclee Print 85x85cm   JASON LARKIN is a British photographer recognized for his desire to forefront the subjects on the periphery of current affairs. Soon after finishing his studies Larkin worked as a documentary photographer across the Middle East and Africa, with his work published worldwide. His latest body of work Tales From The City Of Gold (Kehrer, 2013) has just been published both as a monograph in Europe and as a bilingual newspaper publication for Africa. Larkin is the recipient of numerous awards including, most recently the PDN Arnold Newman New Portraiture Award and a Renaissance Photography Prize. His freely-distributed publication, Cairo Divided was nominated for both the Deutsche Börse and Prix Pictet photography awards. Recent solo exhibitions include Flowers Gallery, London and Farnsworth Art Museum, USA and exhibited at the Brighton Photo Biennial and Hereford Photography Festival. In 2013 he moved from Johannesburg and is now based in London.
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APOGEE ISSUE 05 PREVIEW: Derrick Adams

15 May 2015
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  Today’s feature: Derrick Adams, “Human Structure Shedding Light.”     Human Structure Shedding Light. 2013. mixed media collage on paper 50″ x 72″   DERRICK ADAMS is a multidisciplinary New York based artist whose practice is rooted in Deconstructivist philosophies and the formation and perception of ideals attached to objects, colors, textures, symbols and ideologies. Adams’ work focuses on the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, communicating and exploring ideas of self image and forward projection. Adams received his MFA from Columbia University and BFA from Pratt Institute, and is a Skowhegan and Marie Walsh Sharpe alum, as well as a recipient of a 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and a 2014 S.J. Weiler Award. Exhibition and performance highlights include: Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art 2004; Greater New York, MoMA/PS1 2005; PERFORMA ‘05 & ‘13; Go Stand Next to the Mountain, The Kitchen NYC 2010; The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem 2011/12; The Channel, BAM Fisher Theater Brooklyn NY 2012; Becoming One with Your Environment, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris 2013; Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, and The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem 2013; and Black in the Abstract, Part...
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APOGEE ISSUE 05 PREVIEW: Anastasiya Lazurenko

13 May 2015
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  In the few weeks leading up to Apogee Issue 05’s release, we want to treat you to a sneak preview of visual art we feature in our latest issue. Today, we’re featuring Anastasiya Lazurenko’s work. Stay tuned for more!     Original polaroids 10.8  x 8.5 cm, from the project “Pearly Gates” (2010-ongoing) ANASTASIYA LAZURENKO is an artist based in Russia. Her artwork explores the female psyche and aims to document the beauty and spirituality of women seeking transcendental experience.  
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Pre-Order Apogee Issue 05 Now!

03 May 2015
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  Issue 05 of Apogee Journal is almost here! Can’t wait? Pre-order your copy using the button below and we will ship it to you as soon as it’s available. Estimated delivery date: May 29, depending on location. This issue features writing by: Danez Smith * Kate Zambreno * Tiphanie Yanique * Tommy Pico * t’ai freedom ford * Camonghne Felix * Lisa Ko * Emily Brandt * A. Naomi Jackson * Kazim Ali * Sam Sax * Brionne Janae * Caitlin Blanchfield * Charif Shanahan * Jocelyn Sears * John Lee Clark * LiraeL O * Marisa Beltramini * Mike Crossley * Diana Arterian * Safia Elhillo * Zubair Ahmed * Lydia Conklin * Mina Zohal An interview with Paul Beatty, the author of THE SELLOUT And visual art from Richard Hart (cover artist) * Sara Cwynar * Anastasiya Lazurenko * Simone Leigh * Derrick Adams * Mickalene Thomas * The Bruce High Quality Foundation * Jason Lazarus * Jason Larkin * Nica Ross Also, don’t forget to join us in NYC on May 28 for our Issue 05 launch party. More information and advance ticket purchase (starting at only $5!) here.
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