Author Archives: mauri
Leah Oates in Conversation with Katherine Daniels
Leah Oates: What was your background, and what has been your progression as an artist? Were there any creative types in your family, and when did you know you were going to be an artist? Katherine Daniels: I grew up in Huntington, West Virginia. I was always drawing. As I was bad at sports and was […]
Re: Purpose at FiveMyles
Featuring: Pamela Council, Patrice Renee Washington, Sara Jimenez, Sondra Perry Re: Purpose April 12 – May 4, 2014 FiveMyles 558 St. Johns place Brooklyn fivemyles.org
Jim Elledge’s Henry Darger: Throwaway Boy
Jim Elledge’s, Henry Darger: Throw Away Boy presents a rich portrait of the outsider artist’s life, scaffolded with a decade’s worth of research. Arguing against claims that Darger “was a pedophile, a sadist, or a serial killer”, Elledge has produced a fascinating, and frankly heart-wrenching, account that explains Darger’s work through the context of it’s […]
İrfan Önürmen’s Existential Veils at C24 Gallery
İrfan Önürmen plumbs the intricacies of existence with a postmodern process-oriented painting strategy that fuses a cartoon drawing aesthetic, tulle collage, and cubist planar construction; effectively obscuring formal classification and raising more questions than it answers. His current show at C24 Gallery persistently mines the many shades and guises of the human condition in subtle […]
On the Misunderstood “Privilege of Art”
In the wake of Marcel Duchamp’s celebrated and oft-misunderstood debunking of the myth of the sacred artwork, is it still possible to ask what “Art” signifies in our contemporary cultural context? That is to say, is art necessary in a globalized and confusing world? Does art name an external object of perception (“objet d’art”) as […]
Learning to relax with Jamillah James
I come from a musical background; my mother studied music in school, later teaching vocal and instrumental music in Newark public schools, and I grew up learning and playing multiple instruments. As a young person, I didn’t have much exposure to the visual arts, other than the occasional visit to the Met or the Newark […]
Sabine Poppe
Vibrant colors and piercing eyes drive my pieces. I love the impact of bright colors, and the joy they radiate. To have a blob of magenta and spread it alongside a bright orange delivers instant excitement and sunshine. The amazing variety between individual faces fascinates me; how is it that only minimal changes in in […]
Hervé Chardronnet
My childhood was spent drawing on the last pages of my notebooks during class. The school year was torture for me; the best days were summer vacations spent with family and loved ones. I always wanted to create something; to draw or to paint, to the despair of my teachers and parents. I was facing […]
Leah Oates Talks NYC Culture With Momenta’s Eric Heist
Leah Oates: How did Momenta form and what is the mission of the gallery? Eric Heist: Momenta began in 1986 as a group of five young artists in Philadelphia that were interested in having some critical dialog about their work after undergraduate school. We were working day jobs and felt isolated in our studios with […]
A Compatibilist Response to Phil. 176/OBIT.
Everybody agrees that “Hey Ya!” is the greatest song. Viscerally and emotionally powerful, its references to history and form leave no doubt as to Andre 3000’s intelligence and artistry. It isn’t often that a piece can create such unanimity of judgment. And, what exists at the other end of the spectrum? Can a work actively […]
