At the recent inauguration of MoMA’s Education and Research Building (which marked the grand finale of architect Yoshio Taniguchi’s vision for the museum), I was struck by the power of symmetry and how the open glass bookends now framing the sculpture garden create an illusion of larger space. Designed to mirror the gallery building on […]

I create art because there’s nothing else I’ve ever really wanted to do. As far back as I can remember, art has always been my passion. I love getting to the end of an illustration in order to take in how it looks as a complete piece. To see it completed is an achievement, and […]

It’s always fun to find one of those 1980s, East Village throwback-type galleries. You know, the ones who favor a brutal sort of figurative art that kicks the cobwebs out of the old thinking process. If you are like me, head over to Aidan Savoy Gallery to catch a potent, two-pronged exhibition titled “A Piece […]

Victoria Mayer: Tell me a bit about your current artworks and what meanings you extrapolate from your work?Joseph Giannasio: I question my motives, and I seek more of an experience in the work. Crafting is a form of meditation. There’s something in me that’s not at ease—when I work, I am very tactile. I am […]

It is tempting to read Jeremy Drummond’s recent work as a straightforward critique of the suburban way of life. After all, suburbia is an easy target—the cookie cutter houses, the false sense of security, the failed promise of domestic bliss. Scholars, artists and urban planners have been bemoaning the woes of exurban growth for the […]

It is tempting to read Jeremy Drummond’s recent work as a straightforward critique of the suburban way of life. After all, suburbia is an easy target—the cookie cutter houses, the false sense of security, the failed promise of domestic bliss. Scholars, artists and urban planners have been bemoaning the woes of exurban growth for the […]

A lot has been written about Merrill Steiger’s paintings. References to aboriginal art, the meditative process of applying paint, the mandala, and that is all fine. But here, underneath the cover story, lie deep roots in pop art. Take, for instance, Mandala In Nature. The mandala in the middle, which is comprised of concentric prisms […]

Hannah Furmage is a conceptual artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her work aesthetizes risk and the margins of culture by orchestrating encounters with people who inhabit the outskirts of society. Rather than being a passive voyeur, she is an accomplice in the scenarios that she creates by reasserting the outsider‘s voice against the establishment. The […]

I was born Corsica, a small French island in the Mediterranean and now live in Paris, a very inspiring city. I used to work in the field of electronic and rock music for about five years. I then became a member of the Op-ac collective to merge my love of music and the visual arts. […]

Mindy Shapero spins an exquisite narrative web. She creates an alternative, quirky, personal universe, imbued with a dark undertow that at any moment threatens to engulf us. Her objects are both familiar and strange, residing somewhere within the realm of childhood fairytales, waking dreams and nightmares.“The Infinite Truth of Flatterland” presents four vividly colored paintings […]