Salmon Toor: How was the Yale School of Art, as it is one of the best schools in the country for painting? Was your style similar to the style of work you are producing now? Consequently, how big of an affect did the Grad school have on you as an artist? Elizabeth Huey: The whole […]

The Drawing Center’s “Levity: Selections Spring 2007” explores lightness in both material and metaphoric terms, featuring 14 emerging artists selected from the Viewing Program. The term “levity” might be used to describe any number of works of drawing, implying a “light touch,” lightweight or light-colored materials, a sense of humor or even irreverence towards high […]

The Fall 2006 Makor Artists-in-Residence program draws artistic inspiration from the many faces of the urban landscape. Throughout the program, Makor’s 27 Artists-in-Residence have navigated through ancient, mythical, imaginary and contemporary urban settings, including the cities of Babel, Jericho, Jerusalem, New York, Berlin and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. With these settings as focal points for exploration, […]

The New York-based artist John Kleckner opened his first solo show in Berlin on November 11th. Here, he exhibited a choice selection of his most recent works on paper. John Kleckner’s images can be described in many ways. His work could be explained as proto-emotional, pictorial phenomena employing metaphors of biology and evolutionary ecology. His […]

As curator, it was very important for me to try to reflect a variety of the presentation formats of audio culture, which deals with the production of space and with the construction of society. How can you exhibit an invisible reality that is permanently in flux outside of the exhibition space and within the spaces […]

At a recent preview in Beijing’s Red Gate Gallery, artist Zhou Jirong’s large mixed media canvases drew a substantial crowd. The contemporary art gallery is housed in a Ming Dynasty guardhouse, where the work has to be exceptional to compete with the beauty of the architecture. Inside, Chinese art students rubbed shoulders with prospective buyers […]

Can we call graphic design “art”? There are two approaches: one is when I work to express myself, the other is when clients come with a request and I have to find a solution. But, in both cases, there is a similitude: creation. It feels sometimes like graphic design consists of solving problems. I have […]

On September 26th, last year, the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts celebrated its Centenary Anniversary. The Academy may be seen as Tianjin’s key contemporary cultural agency in promoting new visions and technologies within the Fine Arts—both traditional and synthesis practices are offered in its courses.    Deng Guo Yuan – Laurens Tan   Guo Yuan, […]

My proposal to research the civic role of public sculpture in China was the basis for the Australia-China Council artist in residency in Beijing. This research was to inform my new work for “Critical Mass,” an Australia-China exhibition to be held in Sydney and Beijing during the Olympics in 2008 (curated by Binghui Huangfu, of […]

I don’t know exactly when I started drawing. As far back as I can remember, I always had a pen in my hand and ideas inside my mind. Then I started exploring computer graphics at 15 years of age and I never stopped enjoying this mix of drawing and technology. After five years of professional […]