My paintings are inspired by pop culture iconography and cartoon imagery as well as the work of masters of varied genres and periods such as Frank Frazetta, Chuck Close, Joel-Peter Witkin, Sebastian Krueger, Richard Estes, Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt, Albrecht Duerer and Hieronymus Bosch. I work primarily in oils and acrylics on canvas […]

Gilles Barbier’s remarkably ambitious exhibition at the Carré d’Art Museé d’Art Contemporain in Nîmes (Southern France) plays pithily with many current intellectual strands which interest me: net culture, artificial intelligence, image profusion, micro-organisms and science fiction (among others.) But what struck me as most exact to its weird visual propositions was its deep reflection (one […]

For the last two years Gallery Nights has been identified as the circuit that unites the best art venues of the City of Buenos Aires. It has become a classic event in the cultural agenda, which takes place the last Friday of every month, as the sun goes down. More than 70 art galleries, cultural […]

Bride Fight was originally inspired by two wedding gowns that I encountered in a Junior League thrift store. Ironically, it was on a weekend trip for a wedding. The two hung in an animated herd on a special rack—almost beckoning to be taken to the church for another round. Their sheer volume made me wonder […]

There’s something exciting, refreshing and exhilarating about visiting a truly cutting-edge exhibition of contemporary art. But, how long do you really spend at the exhibition? One hour, maybe two? At 21C Museum Hotel, you can actually reside among some of the most interesting art pieces of our time. The establishment, which opened early this year, […]

Hidden right out in the open is a space that is at once living and dying on 11th Avenue. It’s a notebook factory, but the notebooks are all gone. The building is scheduled for destruction. Condos have swooped down and taken yet another swatch of metropolitan land in their scaly claws. But these bungalows of […]

When you meet him in person, you’ll probably find him to be a friendly, amenable, even funny young man.  (I did; I thought he was charming.) You’ll find out he lives quietly in Nashville with his wife, that he works hard on his art and has a good deal of friends; that he doesn’t like […]

Beneath a pyramid that defines Etherton Gallery’s central entryway to its exhibition space, Bailey Doogan’s painting of a naked woman floats. She does so in the way one might in a pool of water; head thrown back, arms outstretched, legs bending in where the buoyancy keeps them from straightening or realizing a seating. Entitled Ex […]

The need to feel and experiment, as opposed to possessing and accumulating, seems to be an increasingly established tendency in our society, which is generating an important revolution in the way in which we have understood our economic, social and/or cultural relationships. Maybe it is not something new, but now, faced with over-saturation from products, […]

Anaïs Nin once wrote, “I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.” This is the way I first approach art—from the gut and in a very instinctive, immediate way. Then, […]