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Kristi Ropeleski is a painter based in Montreal, who first gained recognition with her exhibition, "Blood Harmony," in 2003. The focal point of the show was an installation comprised of 16 standardized portraits, each featuring an anonymous individual, posed naked against a blank wall. While all of the sitters actively met the gaze of the […]

The works of art can make a profound impression on us and we often are unable to explain why. We can appreciate art without thinking about it or fully understanding the reasons. Sigmund Freud in Moses of Michelangelo noticed that "the apparently paradoxical fact that precisely some of the grandest and most overwhelming creations of […]

In Nicaragua, a country at the very heart of Central America, a unique art event has recently become talk of the town. For roughly ten days last October, 16 artists met in Managua to change the face of Avenida Bolivar, the symbolic avenue of a city with a heavy past and uncertain future. Murales de […]

From its humble beginnings as the Gramercy Art Fair, showing works in hotel rooms, the renamed Armory Show has grown considerably and is now one of New York’s most important art events, as well as an important example of the growing and controversial trend in collecting and showing art–the existence of the art fair. Let […]

"Those who know Bedri know him for his energy. He writes, paints, talks and flirts as if Benzedrine ran through his veins, hair wild as Goya’s or Beethoven’s. He has called himself a ‘cultural guerilla’ and cultural warfare is his forte. Bedri Baykam Simone Cappa Bedri Baykam, Bruce, Born to Run, 2005. Mixed media on […]

Gulay Alpay’s work displays delicacy and fragility, revealing a deep respect for something fundamental, some primal, indigenous sense of shape and color, yet she creates with bursts of contemporary idioms. Gulay Alpay Abraham Lubelski Gulay Alpay Gulay Alpay’s work displays delicacy and fragility, revealing a deep respect for something fundamental, some primal, indigenous sense of […]

I have "naturally" made pictures since I was an infant, an activity that was not always acceptable to those around me. As I matured, I began to question this propensity very seriously by reading and studying all that I could find concerning art and artists. Keith Morant: First Person Creative Life Keith Morant, Whispers in […]

Air, cloud, wind, smoke, fog, light and shadow: all exist in our world as mysterious entities that surround us yet barely take up space. Or do they? Essence of Reality Christine Flok Anna VanMatre, “Above All Series:” Cities, 2005. Graphite on synthetic paper. Air, cloud, wind, smoke, fog, light and shadow: all exist in our […]

It is less than easy today to discuss figurative painting "as such." One inevitably encounters the question of why, in this age of "big media" the artist has chosen to fall back on methods of representation deemed by some to be obsolete. The Work of Françoise Nielly David Markus Françoise Nielly It is less than […]

Before I was born–before my parents gave fate hostages and gave up their independence–two men met at the old St. Regis waiting for Dali. Jehan Legac Rachel Abramovitz Jehan Legac, Fruit Fiction, 2006. Oil on canvas, 60’ x 60’. Courtesy of artist. Before I was born–before my parents gave fate hostages and gave up their […]