I am very interested in human awareness and the various processes of visual perception. I am currently producing images influenced by the occurrence of inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, which is the phenomenon of not being able to see things that are actually there. This can be a result of having no internal […]

My recent body of work is somewhat of an epiphany to me; before these drawings I had taken an unconscious hiatus from drawing for four years. It wasn’t until I worked on the artwork for Lesser Panda (London gothic dance act) that I picked up the pencil again and rekindled everything I love about image […]

Bending Nature is an exhibition of contemporary art assembled for the environment of a botanical conservatory. It is a look at how 15 very different artists and designers have been inspired by plants, plant growth, and horticultural traditions. Bending Nature is part of an ongoing program of exhibitions at the Franklin Park Conservatory that draws […]

It’s an old New York story: Artist moves to industrial-cum-desolate neighborhood, other artists follow, then the artist is promptly priced out of the zip code when boutiques and a less scrappy stock of settlers invade. This is the nature of the beast in a property-starved city. Unnecessary wastefulness is the thematic glue that conjoins McKendree […]

You see I am here after all (2008) is the third in a series of projects at Dia:Beacon commissioned from a younger generation of artists in response to the museum’s collection and/or location. Comprising some 4,000 vintage postcards sourced mostly online over the past year, Zoe Leonard’s piece reveals its renowned subject, Niagara Falls, from […]

I am an Irish artist who lives in Los Angeles. I have lived and worked in New York City, Italy, Belfast, and Dublin. My work is included in many European and Irish collections, public and private. Initially recognized as a painter, I have in recent years produced a consistently strong body of video-based work. My […]

My work is influenced by generations of naturalists and their practice. Like those before me, I too have developed my own unique practice, using nature and the natural world as both material and subject. As an artist working in collaboration with the environment, I have ideas that are often manifest as 3D sculptural compositions of […]

For Jamie Isenstein’s solo exhibition Acéphal Magical at Andrew Kreps Gallery, Isenstein took on the role of the magician’s assistant in the midst of the classic “Sawing the Lady in Half” illusion. Rather than being sawed in half, the illusion was of “sawing the lady at the neck,” suggesting that half of the box contains […]

I was born in Wenzhou, China. Hangzhou is my second hometown. I like strolling along the West Lake, watching old people sipping Long Jing tea bathed in the sunset. This is the kind of peacefulness I am looking for. If only the city would slow down and savor this very moment. I like to pretend […]

The character “囧” has been completely transformed, and has an absolutely different meaning than it did before. In ancient Chinese history, “囧”  meant “brightness.” Now it has been altered by the media, by us—generations born in the 80s and 90s, to mean profound thinking, or romance and passion. I feel the character seems to have […]