Author archives for Jackie Wang

Jackie Wang is a Baltimore and Florida-based writer, artist, and musician. Her writings on literature, art, film, music, theory, politics, and culture can be read at serbianballerinasdancewithmachineguns.com. Her work often uses a hybridized style that combines criticism and memoir.

In Search of Nobody’s Muse (Not Even Mine)

October 1, 2010 – 5:34 pm


93 year old Leonora Carrington, considered the last living member of the inner circle of pre-WWII Parisian surrealists, still lives and makes work in Mexico City. Jackie Wang attempts, and fails, to make her acquaintance, rediscovering Carrington’s haunting and intensely strange ouvre in the process.

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The Temporary Nature of Ideas: Melissa Webb

September 24, 2010 – 12:18 pm


With this Baltimore Art Dispatch, Jackie Wang speaks with Melissa Webb about her unique blend of sculpture, workshop, and theater in her School 33 Art Center exhibition THE TEMPORARY NATURE OF IDEAS.

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