Zachary Thomas Settle

The Other Review: What’s a Body?

Zachary Thomas Settle brings Paul Griffith’s Christian Flesh into conversation with Natalie Carnes’ Motherhood.

Jen Grabarczyk-Turner, Joyce Polance

Quiet Storms: The Paintings of Women by Joyce Polance

A look at recent work from artist Joyce Polance, who explores through female nude figurative paintings the emotional curvature and complexity of women in friendship and life together.

Tania Runyan

Perfected by the Flesh

“She could no longer hold her flesh together,” observes Tania Runyan in her description of a bronzed statue of a woman carrying “the heft of the commandments,” her mouth open in a silent, graven prayer.

Katie Manning

The Invitation

Katie Manning explores the resonance between the beating of a heart and the insistent pulses of prayer.

J.D. Smith

Sequence

In “Sequence,” J. D. Smith offers a startling contrast of nightmarish images—an animal lured for an empty sacrifice and a watery attempt to escape from one’s self.