Author Archives: mauri
In Conversation: Julie Peppito Interviewed by Leah Oates
Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Julie Peppito: When I was in the second grade I drew a picture of a turkey and it won first prize in a statewide elementary school competition in Oklahoma. My mom put me in art classes. In my free time I […]
John Stezaker at Petzel Gallery
John Stezaker graces Petzel Gallery for the third time, presenting his latest exhibit—John Stezaker: Nude and Landscape. Stezaker, a native of the United Kingdom, uses the photographic image as a platform to challenge our understanding and the limitations of the photographic medium. Subtly combining a variety of vintage images Stezaker elegantly creates a space that […]
In Conversation: Cristina de Miguel Interviewed By Florian Meisenberg
Florian Meisenberg: How do you perceive and process the images or ideas you are trying to visualize in your paintings? Cristina de Miguel: Most of the images I use come from my mind. Normally I visualize them in my mind unexpectedly, especially when I’m lying on my bed about to sleep and my eyes are […]
In Conversation: Leah Oates talks to Carol Salmanson
Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Carol Salmanson: I come from a family with a humble background and ambitious parents, who had no interest in the arts. I was passionate about both visual art and ballet, but my mother actively discouraged me until I was in high […]
Arne Svenson at Julie Saul Gallery
Arne Svenson’s most recent photographic series, The Neighbors, is on view at Julie Saul Gallery. Acting as voyeur and investigator, Svenson used a telephoto lens to photograph his neighbors in a highrise across the street from his apartment. The photographs remind us of film stills, or a slow-moving art-house picture. The work shows windows framing […]
Bushwick Open Studios: You can’t see it all.
If you want to get inside the brain of an artist, take a look at where they work, live, eat sleep, and dream. To see all of that at once, take a look at their studio. You had the perfect chance this past weekend. Across the city people geared up for Bushwick Open Studios. Artists […]
Close to the Tower of Silence: Shirin Neshat by Nina Zivancevic
Shirin Neshat, originally from Iran, is a woman artist of an international repute. She always challenges the notion of femininity in her video work, her films, and her installations. Many things have already been written about her much awarded film Women without Men in which we see women, with or without men, who question all forms […]
Spatial Poetics: Milija Belic by Nina Zivancevic
Milija Belic is native to Serbia but has lived in Paris since the early 1980s. He’s a sculptor and painter whose geometric abstractions are endowed with a special lyrical quality that causes us to think of him as a poet among the sculptors. His expression is pure and oneiric, always on the track of the […]
Lori Ellison in Conversation with Lawrence Swan
Lori Ellison: Just to get things started, how did you begin making the work you are making now? Lawrence Swan: That James Castle show we saw in Philadelphia affected me. I responded to his handling of materials. I didn’t set out to imitate him, but I think he helped me break through or break out […]
Sarah Godthart: Intimacy in Ephemera
By Rose Hobart Austrian-based artist Sarah Godthart’s personal statement mirrors her work: It is a sparse but telling poem, a haiku by an unknown Japanese poet. Written in German it states: Des Menschen Herz ist unergründlich – doch in meiner Heimat blühen die Blumen wie eh und jeh. Roughly, this translates to: The human heart […]
