Author Archives: mauri
Dealing Drugs with Jibade-Khalil Huffman
In his first solo exhibition at Samuel Freeman in Los Angeles, The Four People You Meet at Every Drug Deal, Jibade-Khalil Huffman brought his viewer into a world of myriad, reflecting surfaces; a coreless expanse of language and image that flitted over the face of something unutterable. Huffman showed work in a range of media […]
Jehan Ali
Art is life it is the most beautiful universal language that silently speaks aloud. If pain accumulates to generate creativity, then art heals! f-nan.com
Sini Kunnas
Fast drawing and movement with black line in still paintings has defined my art for 15 years. I worked for a long time as an artist before going to have schooling from the Russian Masters with portraits. I am an arts healer in abstract painting as well as in classical styles. My portraits and paintings […]
Bobby Mathieson, Cheats and Codes
Bobby Mathieson’s paintings reflect the emotional complexity shaping his relationship to these figures through a portraiture that is at once provocative, grotesque and deeply reverent. Bobby Mathieson, Cheats and Codes November 14 – December 14, 2013 Opening Reception, November 14th, 2013, 6:00-8:30 pm Lyons Wier Gallery 542 West 24th Street New York City lyonswiergallery.com
“Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective”
This exhibit celebrates the career of one of the most influential living comic artists. Best known for Maus, his Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) has produced a diverse body of work over the course of five decades that has blurred the boundaries between “high” and […]
Josephine Turalba
These bullet paintings take on a visceral approach to the politics of violence, focusing on the dynamics of infliction and trauma, as well as depicting traces and spaces, a mental place where empathy translates into healing. My “ballistic” medium grew from personal traumas, experienced, converging with collective history. My work embraces influences from different cultures […]
Photographic Testament: Revamping the Holy Bible
The bible has been a pillar of society since its writing centuries ago. At the same time, it is a fractured and controversial document wrought not only by the wars fought in its name, but also by conflicts over the document itself, how it should be read, translated, and distributed. There are countless versions, each […]
Cinema Without Conscience: Tony Zaza Takes in NYFF 51
The 51st New York Film Festival is more of a milestone than the 50th Anniversary edition. The Festival demonstrates that American filmmaking has fully transformed itself from a plastic form of storytelling in time and motion, into a form of self-indulgent self-centered vanity. This was to have been expected. Since the mid-1990s, celebrity has been […]
Uprooted: Laurent Chéhère’s Flying Houses
Be prepared to let your imagination carry you away while visiting French artist Laurent Chéhère’s first solo exhibition in the U.S. at Muriel Guépin Gallery, opening November 1. This fantastical exhibition features a series of recent photographs, many of which have never before been exhibited in a series entitled Flying Houses. Each photograph depicts a […]
