Author Archives: mauri
Alika Kumar
Freedom to express my creativity in a variety of ways has led to the creation of several series of abstract paintings. What unites my work is my unbridled passion for color. I work mostly with acrylics, as is efficient, yet flexible and challenging. Recent works have incorporated oil pastels. My style is unstructured, spontaneous and […]
Neo Expressionism and Power Chords
Hearing the guitar riff toward the end of Boston’s 1976 rock song “Peace of Mind” from a passing car radio the other day, I was a little surprised to find myself gripped by the sound, just as when I was a teenager and predictably compelled by such things many years ago. The musical gesture is […]
Marcy Brafman Interviewed by Leah Oates
Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and did you know early on that you would be in the arts, or did you begin as something else? Where there other artists in your family? Marcy Brafman: I was always drawing. The first thing I remember doing was drawing. I always thought of myself as an artist even […]
In Conversation: John Phillip Abbott Interviewed By Cary Smith
Cary Smith: The words in your paintings seem funny, ambiguous, and have a precision about them, all at the same time. Where do they come from, and what do they mean to you? John Phillip Abbott: The words come from memories and personal experiences. For example, a painting might reference my first car, a Pontiac […]
Sarah Halpern Interviews Microscope Gallery’s Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti
Courtesy of Microscope Gallery. Microscope Gallery is a new art space specializing in the works of film, video, sound, new media and other time-based artists. The artists we present are independent, radical, experimenters and risk takers who range from the emerging to recognized pioneers and innovators. Microscope also offers a weekly screening, performance, readings and […]
Beyan Ramsey’s “Soft Tissue” Explores a Tough Issue
“It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests-and so perfectly within their rights!” – Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Beyan Ramsey takes a […]
On Viewing and Access
By Anna Gurton Wachter The artist Cynthia Maughan made around three hundred works on video in her lifetime. I had the opportunity recently to watch a sampling of them, when New York University screened them as part of October’s Archiving the Arts conference. In introducing the work, conservator Jonathon Furmanski offered an observation that has […]
Armory Centennial Edition Boasts Big Attendance
This year’s centennial edition of New York’s largest art fair, The Armory Art Show, was one for the record books. Showing his support, Mayor Bloomberg introduced the fair in a press conference. His participation during the opening of the fair directly points to the on-going role of the fair within the New York art scene. […]
