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Apophatic
Art Practice and Research
Connecting with the ineffable in times of flattening
Making
Opening
Living / Archiving
Learning
Low Residency
Drew 2026
(pw)
Encountering
Roots and Relations
William Franke Center for Apophatic Thought and Culture
Drew University
,
Art Department
, and
Caspersen School of Graduate Studies
Vision Lab
University of Illinois, Visual Arts Research
Soft Data/Base
Contributors
Dr. Alessia Lupo Cecchet,
La Montagna Addolorata [The Sorrowful Mountain]
Alex Beth Schapiro,
The Third That Remains: Rituals for Patients I Never Met
Alexandre Sorokin,
Noë / Red Cloud: An Apophatic Artistic Research Project
Dr. Ally Zlatar,
Worshipping The Porcelain Throne; Apophatic Autoethnography and Eating Disorders
Asana Hues,
The Significance of Insignificance
Béatrice Machet,
Paul Auster-apophatically-
Bob Kalivac Carroll,
Disruption and Apophasis: Ineffability and the Object Conundrum in Nonobjective Abstract Visual Art
Caitlin Gilson and Carol Scott,
A Conversation on Color: Poetry and Painting as Image, Glimpse, Moment
Caitlin Mary Margarett Sørensdatter,
The Fruits (Solastalgia in Skønvirke)
Chandni Dhanesh Jeswani,
What the City Refuses: Apophatic Cosmology and Structural Illegibility in Varanasi
The Coven Collective: Chaelim Lim, Dima Mabsout, M. Maybee Salters, Nicole Sarmiento, and Tyler Rai,
[Picking up shells amid a tsunami] 쓰나미가 밀려오는데, 조개나 줍고 있네.
Daniel Martin and Dr. Marty Tomszak,
Souls Moved by Intelligent Energies: Practice-Led Iconic Research and the Apophatic Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Denise Gawley DMH MSN RN,
Standing in the After
Denise Gieseke,
In the Movement of Dissolution
Diana Rojas,
Query v2; Subject to the Immaterial; Surveying the Messenger 1 & 2
ELAWIATR,
What Is Art – Apophatic Language in Fracture
Eliza Swann,
The eyeless mind
Pr. émérite Emmanuel Gabellieri,
L’expression et l’inexprimé
Dr. Evgenii Matveev,
Apophatic representation of Russia in Russian poetry
Faizaan Ahab,
Move
Frank Smith,
Les Films non exécutables
Gabriel Figueroa,
Chiesa
Giulia Taurino,
Ceci N’est Pas Une Archive: Negative Metadata and the Apophasis of Digital Records
Dr. Gitanjaly Chhabra and Dr. Kathleen (Kaye) Hare,
What Remains Unsaid: Apophatic Erasure in Academic Life and Luminous Edge of Absence
Hamid Roslan,
The Encounter
iris yuting zeng,
The Knot Before Language
Ishita Dharap,
Lossyness: Negotiations with what Routinely Escapes
Jennifer Toriello, D. Litt.,
Held by What We Hold: Apophatic Weight and Embodied Practice in The Magic Hour
Kaleb Ostraff,
Touchpoints for the Ineffable
Karin de Weille,
Undone (spoken words)
Keiran Dugan,
Against Immediacy: Fictional Mediation and Apophatic Representation
KPrevallet,
Nothing Erased But Much Submerged
Dr. Kythe Letitia Heller,
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Dr. Laura McCullough,
Compassionate Curiosity, Apophatic Storytelling, & the Healing Imagination: The Coordinates of Being
Leslie N. Polk,
peace, Colleague #2
Dr. Lily Filson,
The God in the Grotto: Renaissance Automata, Theurgy, and Apophatic Practice
Marco Nieli,
EKPHRASIS I, 121 ecphrastic carmina); EKPHRASIS II, 128 ecphrastic carmina in the 4 styles, with some haiku
Martin Lenclos,
Perception Is the First Creative Act: Toward an Apophatic Reading of Design for Nothing
Martin Robb,
Embracing the unknown: researching the hidden life and enigmatic art of Theodor Kern
Mayson Taylor,
16 SHOWINGS Toward a Feminist Apophatic Art Practice
Merel Thijs,
On the colours of being: onto-teleological considerations on the artistic-creative process; With closed eyes open: portraits of the mind unwinding
Mike Petrakis,
Arteryficial Intelligence
Nadine M. Kalin,
What Is Withheld Does Not Lack: Waystop Pedagogy as Earth Scores in the Critical Zone
Natalia Espinel and samantha shoppell,
Un/wrapping Vulnerability
Noelle Derksen,
Apophasis and Trans Abstraction
Radmila Djurica,
Body in the Glitch
Sarah Tarkany,
Reticulated Silences
Smita Sen,
High Voltage: On The Heart, Defibrillation, and Competing Philosophies of Medicine
Sophie Auger,
third-image-archive.net
Stephanie Smit (Giek),
Soul Constellation Map — An Interactive Archive of Recurring Identities Across Time
V.E. Haddad,
the feeling when; Dream Commons
Wayne Adams,
Cloud of Unknowing
William Franke,
Desert and Sea: Apophatic Land/Sea Scapes
Project / Editorial Team
Merel Visse
William Franke
Ryan Woodring
Béatrice Machet
Sarah Travis
Enaiê Azambuja
Sarah Tarkany
Peter Kline
Kythe Heller
Cailtin Gilson
Chelle Stearns
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