Rihanna Graces the Cover of Latest Garage Magazine Issue

Celebrating women across the spectrum of the entertainment industry simply isn’t done enough. Garage Magazine, a semi-annual print publication re-launched digitally in 2017 under the Vice Media moniker, went above and beyond with their latest issue utilizing only women photogs to create a masterpiece with Issue 15! Rihanna was the perfect cover choice and artist Deana Lawson makes one hell of a debut with this, her first ever magazine cover and fashion project!

Here’s the official line on the issue:

GARAGE Magazine reveals artist Deana Lawson’s first magazine cover and fashion project, featuring Rihanna. For this latest issue, the biannual’s fifteenth, GARAGE Magazine worked only with female-identifying photographers, including Lawson, Barbara Probst, Momo Okabe, Taryn Simon, and Justine Kurland. Through the lens of female image makers, GARAGE Magazine Issue 15 imagines “The Human Future” populated by powerful, beautiful, and innovative concepts. From robots to science fiction, the new issue affirms the relevance of humanity in a nebulous, technological future.

Rihanna by Deana Lawson. Courtesy of GARAGE Magazine
Rihanna by Deana Lawson. Courtesy of GARAGE Magazine
Rihanna by Deana Lawson. Courtesy of GARAGE Magazine
Rihanna by Deana Lawson. Courtesy of GARAGE Magazine
Rihanna by Deana Lawson. Courtesy of GARAGE Magazine
Rihanna by Deana Lawson. Courtesy of GARAGE Magazine
Rihanna by Deana Lawson. Courtesy of GARAGE Magazine
Rihanna by Deana Lawson. Courtesy of GARAGE Magazine

“Every imagemaker who picked up a camera for Issue 15 is a woman, and those women took us to Nigeria, Sweden, California, Tokyo, and Harlem, among other locations,” said Mark Guiducci, GARAGE Magazine Editor in Chief. “We had our eyes fixed solidly on the future for this issue—a future that is robotic, artificially intelligent, global, a great responsibility, and a huge mess. A future that is also, in other words, human. Rihanna is perhaps our most human of pop idols—unguarded, miraculously vital, perfect in her imperfections—making her the consummate subject for Deana.”

In celebration of Deana Lawson’s cover, a limited edition of five-hundred hardbound copies of GARAGE Magazine Issue 15 will be exclusively for sale at Dover Street Market NYC starting September 6, 2018.
INSIDE THE ISSUE

Artist Arthur Jafa interviews Lawson for a wide-ranging Q&A that accompanies Lawson’s portraits of Rihanna.

All original photography was shot by female-identifying photographers including BARBARA PROBST, MOMO OKABE, JUSTINE KURLAND, ANNIE POWERS, ESTELLE HANANIA, NADINE IJEWERE, RUTH OSSAI, CAROLYN DRAKE, and others.

CGI influencer LIL MIQUELA photobombs paparazzi shots from yore and BINA48 speaks about being the world’s first humanoid robot designed to resemble an African American woman.

TARYN SIMON presents new photographs in conjunction with her MASS MoCA installation, A Cold Hole, in which subjects jump into a pool of freezing water. In a special artist commision, sculptor ANN AGEE renders models of the fashion world’s favorite footwear in ceramic.

Rare works by EVA HESSE, ANA MENDIETA, DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE, LYNDA BENGLIS, and HANNAH WILKE—from the little-seen 1996 exhibition More Than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the 1970s at the Rose Art Museum in Massachusetts—are presented alongside works by contemporary female artists, among them DONNA HUANCA, AMY YAO, and DORA BUDOR.

A team of French teen gymnasts model MARINE SERRE’s futuristic bodysuits; and photographer RUTH OSSAI introduces the female stars of NOLLYWOOD, Nigeria’s traditionally male-dominated film industry.

A conversation with Call Me By Your Name director LUCA GUADAGNINO on remaking the ballet horror classic Suspiria.

Essays by science fiction writer and Afrofuturist OCTAVIA E. BUTLER and best-selling novelist ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN; a short story from CARMEN MARIA MACHADO; and a philosophical essay about saying “no” to the future from poet ANNE BOYER.

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS

Ann Agee, Therese Aldgard, Es Devlin, Francesca DiMattio, Carolyn Drake, Cécile B. Evans, Nadine Fraczkowski, Estelle Hanania, Nadine Ijewere, Rinko Kawauchi, Justine Kurland, Deana Lawson, Flo Ngala, Momo Okabe, Ruth Ossai, Annie Powers, Barbara Probst, Rachel Rose, Diane Russo, Taryn Simon, Arden Surdam, Tina Tyrell, Hannah Whitaker.

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Shumon Basar, Alex Beggs, Derek Blasberg, Anne Boyer, Octavia E. Butler, Kyle Chayka, Christina Cacouris, Isabella Flower, Alexandra Foradas, Arthur Jafa, Nora Khan, Dean Kissick, Alexandra Kleeman, Sander Lak, Carmen Maria Machado, W. David Marx, Kathy Noble, Ali Pechman, Prudence Peifer, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Adébólá Ráyò, Alex Ronan, Lou Stoppard, Eliza Harper Wallace

ABOUT GARAGE MAGAZINE
GARAGE is a global leader in contemporary art, fashion, and luxury, committed to bringing to life the most original and ambitious collaborative projects in those fields. GARAGE publishes biannual print editions, and, since its digital relaunch in October 2017, cutting-edge daily content online under the aegis of VICE Media. The magazine was launched in 2011 by Dasha Zhukova, taking its name and spirit from Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, the major international art institution founded in 2008. Since its inception, GARAGE has worked with many of the world’s most celebrated creators and initiated an array of global artistic dialogues. Among the contributors to have created exclusive content for the magazine are Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, John Baldessari, Urs Fischer, Aya Takano, and Mark Grotjahn.

ABOUT VICE MEDIA
VICE is the world’s preeminent youth media company and content creation studio. Launched in 1994, VICE now operates in over 30 countries and distributes its programming to viewers across digital, linear, mobile, film and socials. VICE includes an international network of digital channels; a weekly and daily news programming partnership with HBO; a television and feature film production studio; a magazine; a record label; an in-house creative services agency; and an international TV network, VICELAND.

VICE’s award-winning programming has been recognized by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Peabody Awards, Sundance Film Festival, PEN Center, Cannes Lions, Frontline Club, Knight Foundation, American Society of Magazine Editors, LA Press Club, James Beard awards, and Webby Awards, among others.

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