For those familiar with the S&M self-portraiture and photos of trans-gendered subjects she produced during the early 90s, Catherine Opie’s show, “American Cities,” on view at Barbara Gladstone might come as a surprise. Prominently featured in high-profile exhibitions dealing with queer culture such as the Guggenheim’s “Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance […]

Well, it happened. It got even bigger, this super bowl of the art world. With some dozen and a half fairs, Miami in early December is Art World. And everyone was there, catching up with art esthetics, theories and achievements that seemed endless and bright. As I took in the first day and a half […]

My present style of painting evolved from sketchbook work and experimentation with photography. I etched into the photographs to reveal the neon-like colour from beneath and distorted larger areas with bleach and water. The paintings are a transfiguration of these etchings/drawings, encompassing the spontaneity and bold colour of the etchings in their transformation into oil […]

The human figure is the vehicle with which I can most positively relate. I’m preoccupied and fascinated with and curious about the solitariness and mysteriousness of human beings. The more developed my curiosity becomes, the more acute, the more complicated, complex and suggestive the world around people becomes. I am also driven and guided by […]

I’m currently working on a series of paintings that each feature a single face or head. I’m interested in how the painted portrait or, perhaps more accurately, how a painting that looks like a portrait, can be used to explore ideas of the uncanny and the (fear of the) loss of identity. The subjects in […]

In and with my art, I repeatedly touch on sensitive, taboo issues by employing forms of artistic discourse that are very much critical of society. In this way, I examine social structures such as families; the would-be idyll of the nuclear family, for instance—father, mother, child, house, car—is revealed as a space in which pervasive […]

Valery Oisteanu, the Romanian born critic, poet and collage artist, has delivered a new movement to the East Village which he calls PO-COLLAGE. The first in a series of exhibitions took place in a basement gallery at the Thompkins Square Branch Library over the summer. It began with a reading and ended with a party […]

I paint images of imaginary people who lust and who are lusted after. Through the visual images that I paint, I am experimenting with lust in its many vital aspects: the relationship of the viewer to the image; the relationship of the images to each other. I explore the depths and breadths of life force […]

Aleksandra Jarosz Laszlo is a figurative painter. Her work ranges from formal portraits to the writhing and twisting forms of her more personal work, which deals with bodies and people as the reflection of the power relations among the characters that inhabit her canvases. It is an attempt to challenge and confront the darker human […]

Orly Cogan’s work is an irreverent take on the conventions of femininity. She stitches figures on dainty vintage fabrics. These found linens, which once served as table runners, bureau scarves and tablecloths in a more modest age, were already embroidered once by an earlier and more circumscribed generation of women. Cogan adds to these a […]