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 brainchild […]

Artist David Ryan’s layered paintings, assembled from laser-cut sheets of medium-density fiberboard, represent an inspired twist on the Pop Abstraction purveyed by certain other artists who, like Ryan, graduated from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas’ Master of Fine Arts program within the last 10 years. With one of his paintings accepted into MoMA last year, […]

Since 2004, Terry Rosenberg has been working on a new, challenging and somewhat controversial body of work. For over two decades, Rosenberg has been drawing and painting the human figure in motion, which he accomplishes through his practice of observation directly from life as the movement unfolds. Indeed, some of his most celebrated work is […]

The last time I saw artist Ruth Marshall, she cast a weary eye on me and mentioned her prolonged workdays of recent months. Learn why here: Milton Fletcher: Ruth, how would you describe your snakeskin art? How is it related to your life? Ruth Marshall: I think the latest series of snakes I’ve completed would […]

It’s a good thing that Ryan Spencer’s exhibition, “Romance and Adventure,” doesn’t open until December at Dust Gallery in Las Vegas. Spencer will show a series of Polaroid photographs with a common subject, the World Trade Center, and he is glad the work will be seen after the fifth anniversary observations of the September 11 […]

The Old City area of Knoxville, TN recently welcomed a new art gallery—The Basement Gallery—to its eclectic entertainment scene. The gallery’s exhibition schedule includes group, solo and two-person exhibitions within its main gallery space, as well as having a small project room to house site-specific installations and new media works. The Basement “seeks to display […]

Charlie Fetherolf is in his studio on the Upper West Side drawing and inking panels for several projects: a comic book inspired by his grandfather’s World War I diaries written on the battlefront in Europe and the second installment in a series of comics depicting the evolution of the universe and life on earth entitled, […]

An artist and teacher for nearly 25 years, Deborah Rockman is currently a Professor of Art at Kendall College of Art and Design. During her artistic career, Deborah has carved herself a niche as a cultural critic using art as a means of confronting issues of gender, language and the taboos of society. I had […]

No shorter than a music video and no longer than a Bugs Bunny cartoon, Brian Bress’ videos are constructed out of the very familiar building blocks that also create the television we watch on a daily basis. Like a TV-addicted Bruce Nauman, Bress’ videos are simple, absurdly mundane performances taped in his studio in front […]

MKgalerie.nl is a self-described typical commercial gallery with a distinct interest in the Rotterdam art scene. In a brief conversation, Emmo Grofsmid pointed out that Amsterdam, as a capitol city, may have an easier time attracting attention, while in Rotterdam the community must to work together in order to promote the city. The attention is […]