Leah Oates: What was your progression as an artist? Did you always know you wanted to be a painter? Please talk about how you developed to where you are now. Carlo Maria Mariani: I knew I wanted to be an artist when I was six years old. I started to draw and then began painting […]

Jeff Soto’s current show at the BLK/MRKT gallery in Los Angeles features a new series of paintings on canvas, panel and paper. “Cold Ice Age” continues Soto’s intrepid exploration of his private imaginary world, but with a twist—the amplified conscience of a new parent; the show’s title refers to his intensifying apprehension about the future […]

Fuse Gallery’s “Draw” art exhibit recently made a huge mark with its New York debut. As a result, galleries around the world have come calling to host the show too.  “Draw,” curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey, opened at New York City’s Fuse Gallery last fall with over 1000 media, celebs, artists, musicians and […]

Is the sky transparent? Or is the glass transparent? The heart is transparent. The heart resembles the sky; it also resembles the glass. Because of the heart, air can then produce numerous kinds of colors. Glass is the mirror of the sky, while the sky reflects the heart. The glass thus is full of life […]

Alpher Xian: Your photographs have a dreamy quality to them. They seem to me that they come naturally, rather than just being “taken.” Do you research your subjects or do you know them intuitively? Do the pictures find you, or you do go out to look for the pictures?Alec Soth: I usually have a list […]

As festival director of something called Optronica, I’m always getting asked what the project is all about, and how it developed. For me it’s really the culmination of 15 years of work. In the early 90s, as an impressionable 20-something, I relocated to London from my hometown of Paris, simply to immerse myself in the […]

My work embodies a place where thoughts and ideas are tentative, worked out, where the process of thinking is exposed rather than resolved. In fact, what got me interested in the grids was coming across the term “monkey mind” in my reading; implying a jumping around from thought to thought rather than staying calm and […]

I started painting the way I do today about 10 years ago at the HFBK state school of arts in Hamburg, Germany, in the art class of Professor Stanley Brown. After a short period of abstract painting, I came up with the little figures that I depict in my recent pictures, the little girl and […]

Natz Spetsman, the self-titled “Egotainment Filmaker,” is anything but. His visionary portrait, “Natz in Berlin,” is a series of emotionally evocative vignettes of the heart and soul of Berlin. It’s both intoxicating and intimate. As the stories unfold, Spetsman draws us into his world. We see an exotic dancer in pinks and reds in an […]

A faint mechanical whirring, interspersed with periods of unhinged, impish cackling, accompanies one’s entrance into the “Quantum Circus” show at the Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis. The space is dim, thanks to maroon curtains strung across the gallery windows, and the lighting eerie, thanks to the subject matter of the exhibition. Situated throughout the […]