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Recently, mounted at Newman Popiashvili Gallery in Chelsea, “Drawing Room” cleverly combined an eclectic group of seven artists preoccupied with the nature of space and how we structure our lives within it. Taking its title from a photograph by Michael Huey, Newman Popiashvili’s winter group exhibition undermines assumptions about the physical and psychological membranes that […]

To view a JonMarc Edwards work is to recognize its author immediately. The coherent symbolic vocabulary established by this painter/sculptor/assemblage artist over the past decade and a half is, in more ways than one, entirely readable. In his works, the artist consistently employs the signs making up the English language as communicators of ideas, emotions […]

En una línea opuesta a la espectacuralidad que se anuncia éxito—y que tanto daño ha hecho a la comprensión pública del arte—el estadounidense Lance Dehné planteó en Valencia una posible concentración de la mirada a partir de pequeños formatos contenedores de universos que hacen del exterior visual un interior desnudamente intimista.   Honestidad, verdad. – […]

Ah, yes, art’s cannibalistic side. That’s the truest thing you can say about art; that it devours its young, its contemporaries, sometimes even itself, and then becomes something new. In so doing, it extends the boundaries of what constitutes the grist of art. Think Gauguin, the aesthetic cannibal extraordinaire. Think Juan Gris, picking up and […]

Katarzyna Kozyra has made strong and provocative works that question the rules of our society: she forced the concept of privacy when she dressed up like a man and attended a men-only spa (Men’s Bathhouse); then, she participated in fake war actions, with a group of violent warlords and real weapons (Punishment and Crime). But, […]

In the course of six years, Kristina Wong has become a powerful creative force. She uses her gender, background and ethnicity (Chinese-American) as source material for her art. She has won accolades, awards and a growing national audience. Wong’s work is compelling because it is, by turns, confrontational and candid, acerbic and guileless, cartoonish and […]

Brian Rogers is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the The Chocolate Factory Theater. A theater director and video artist, Brian’s recent works include “Fundamental,” “Audit” and “Gun Play.” He is currently collaborating with playwright Ken Urban on a new multimedia meditation on wives and death entitled “2 Husbands,” which will premiere at The Chocolate […]

Between 2001 & 2005 my life was filled with all kinds of miseries. Mom died in 2001 of heart failure, my grandmother died of old age in 2005, my father died one month later (lung cancer) and then me and my girlfriend broke up. When strangers used to ask me what my art was about […]

In reading Clifford Faust’s biography, one could become nostalgic of the 60s—the beat, the jazz, the wanderlust. Clifford Faust was born in Oklahoma, raised in Oregon. After graduation, he zoomed from hippie San Francisco to groovy New York in a Volkswagen Beetle, water-to-water, Jack Kerouac style. Arriving in New York City in the late 60s, […]