Milena Jovicevic Popovic demands more of the viewer than a casual glance or the passive attention involved in viewing a more narrative-based painting. The artist, raised in Montenegro and schooled in France, gives the viewer fragments to consider—a series of crude geometric shapes, the silhouette of a shitting dog, dead cigarettes ritually piled in an […]

It all started with tape. While in my last term at the Art Center, I became obsessed with an old, weathered spool of tape. It was a yellow ochre and was almost falling off of its cardboard inner tube. It was toxic and unhealthy looking and so I was drawn to using it. This object […]

It’s easy to get trapped in doubt, laziness and a false sense of pride in this fast-paced culture. My work and life are an attempt to be direct and honest with myself, which automatically translates onto the canvas. Picasso said, “I do not seek. I find.” The finding is having confidence in every mark, color […]

Ann Wilson: You’re from New York. Would you call these nature paintings? Jaime Dalglish: I would call them Unitarian paintings. AW: Why? JD: Because it’s my work, and I believe in work, you know? I believe in the work that I create and make available. I also listen to a lot of music, you know? […]

In preparing for any discussion concerning the merits or characteristics of installation-based artworks—their physical and aesthetic properties and their ideological origins—it first seems necessary to elaborate upon the ways in which such works are experienced. This discussion relies upon an understanding of the different experiences encountered through narrative artworks and artworks belonging to a second […]

In a New York performance season in which the controversial London import “My Name is Rachel Corrie” took center stage, there occurred something new and exciting around the periphery: multiple examples of new narrative, energizing a wide range of live downtown performance. This is not the sophistic navel gazing of the past but an authentic […]

Leah Oates: When did you know you wanted to be an artist? I read a bit about you beforehand, and you came from an artistic and bohemian family in Montreal, where you were raised. You had originally wanted to become a lawyer. What was your progression?Chris Dorland: I have always been an extremely visual person, […]

Peering through a barely open doorway, the viewer is presented with a nude woman lying at a rakish angle across her bed—nearly drooping onto the floor. The scene is an old-fashioned bedroom strewn with significant looking objects—a carefully placed mirror, roses and other objects loaded with ambiguous meaning. Fortunately we are provided with a written […]

A lifetime before I moved to hipster-central, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I was a sorority girl at the University of Michigan. The salacious underbelly of this time-honored community still continues to fascinate me.  This world of friendship, camaraderie, sex and violence from my past became a kind of springboard for my career as a serious artist. I […]

I remember well when I first entered the small gallery of New General Catalog on Franklin Street in Greenpoint. The first thing that caught my attention was the beautiful space itself—not your typical white cube. I am positive that Darri Lorenzen can recall a similar encounter, how he must have been taken with its washed-out […]