El Colectivo de Arte la Vitrina was granted a FONDART grant (governmental funds for the development of the arts in Chile) during 2004 and 2005. The project “Status Quo,” recognized in the category of “excellence,” proposed a trilogy to comment on issues of power as a result of the political and economical structures we live […]

From a theoretical and linguistic point of view, one could argue that, since its inception, drawing as a medium has undergone a transformation from syntagm to paradigm, or from a primary form of communication to a refined, optional carrier of embedded narration. The basic human impulse to formulate information into a story has always figured […]

For more than a decade, I have been developing interactive art installations that seek to create connective, social and performative experiences. Contrary to most multimedia work, which is designed for individual participation, my pieces are normally conceived for group interaction, establishing new relationships between local or remote participants. My work involves the concept of “relational […]

I make art to express myself. All the creations I have made are based on my experiences, thoughts and memories. English isn’t my first language and moving to the United States when I was eleven was the toughest part of my life. I didn’t know the language and I also didn’t know anyone. Not being […]

Ten years after the foundation of her dance company cie.toula limnaios, chorographer, interpreter and dancer Toula Limnaios celebrates this event in the form of a three-week jubilee program. She shows pieces from several periods ranging in style from solo to quintet. This wouldn’t seem to be anything of importance, but, these days, it is very […]

Emergency Arts, a complex of studios, non-profit charitiy spaces and galleries on 11th Avenue in Chelsea opened this past September. Not such big news in itself, sure, but, in this case, and in the approach taken here with the recyclable materials construction and communal feel of its dwellers, you see something closer to the heyday […]

Word went out on the internet ten days before the show opened—an invitation to artists to pack up some art and head down to High Energy Constructs in LA’s Chinatown arts district. This was no ordinary invitation, but an online chain letter. Each person who got the email was to forward it to ten others, […]

While religious art brings to mind traditional images of the Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ, the wide variety of works currently on display at the University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery and UT Downtown Gallery is proof that, in the world of sacred artistic expression, anything goes. "Thresholds: Expressions of Art and Spiritual Life" is the […]

Although Shawn Hummel has been known to photograph custom cars, his work is not related to nostalgia or kitsch and is about as concerned with documenting artifacts from a distinct subculture as Edward Weston was concerned with the cultural proclivities of the produce he photographed. Hummel is more enthralled by those same “lovely topologies” that […]

Opened in 1990, the Knoxville Museum of Art presents 10 to 12 exhibitions each year, featuring emerging artists and designers, its permanent collection and traveling exhibitions. Other activities at the museum include a semi-weekly classic film series, a weekly concert series, family-friendly days, as well as ongoing art classes, seminars and lectures. With 53,200 total […]