Sante´s father: Italian immigrant, barber, ´50s pinups hanging from the mirrors at the shop. Sante, 17, a small room in Brooklyn drawing his father’s face, obsessively, minutely, lead pencil, two laborious months to finish the tiny drawing, photo-like resemblance. He hangs it over his bed. Sante, 19, solitary spring months in Coney Island. Camera on […]

The John Moores 24 Painting competition is the longest running, open painting competition in the United Kingdom. Hosted biannually by The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England since 1957, it is open to all artists living or working in the UK. This year, it attracted 2,300 slide entries. A short list of 268 paintings were […]

The photographs in my “Double Duty” series started as key events and characters from my fantasy life as a child, representing the expression of emotional attachments that are still publicly unacceptable. The scale places the viewer eye to eye with these 12-inch dolls in a believable human environment. These large-scale photographs are not a representation […]

Wednesday was the VIP and Press Preview for the largest art fair in the US and I arrived directly from the airport—luggage in hand, badly in need of a shower—to help man our magazine booth. NY Arts is giving away a few thousand copies of the November/December issue to attendees of Art Basel Miami Beach, […]

This Italian (Spanish-born) artist is investigating a delicate field but, through the combination of technique and knowledge of its subject matter, he manages not to fall into vulgarity and obscenity. For many years, the painter has been developing a personal research focused on the rite of passage from childhood to youth that is characterised by […]

My exhibition strategies often engage an audience comprised of a very general public that is not necessarily expecting art or gathered in established arts venues. I interrupt the daily flow of public exchange, inviting strangers into momentary relationships. I create websites that infiltrate and participate in online fan culture, offer non-professional advice to passersby from […]

I have never looked for meaning in my work. The things I draw have always been, in my mind, simply for aesthetic appeal. I often find myself categorized with pinup and erotic artists. I think in this category, artists are not expected to create meaning. I’ve been told my work evokes different emotions in different […]

Arnie Arnold is an Australian artist who works on the fringes of Sydney’s art, design and fashion communities. He boasts a prolific and diverse practice that blurs the lines between commercialism and art. He explains, “I have gone from photography to painting, to making sculpture from found objects, to making chandeliers out of sneakers for […]

Up until recently I had always considered my work in a commercial context—I have been an illustrator for over ten years, gradually working my way up some kind of ladder until I seem to have made enough of a name for myself and produced the kind of work that makes people want to own it […]

Lara Allen’s work is childish. Not innocent, or simple, or naive, or, heaven forbid, sincere. No. Lara Allen’s work is childish, and in the very best way. It is cheeky, dauntless, rollickingly grim and wholly unburdened by false distinctions. High, low, Christian, heathen, serious, playful, kitsch, sublime: critical taxonomies carry no currency here. Classifications are […]