The artist, Zhao Dewei was born in Shanghai, China, in 1960, and is now living in Songzhuang of Beijing. Early in the “85” Period, Zhao has shocked and surprised the city of Qingdao, where many people hardly know what “contemporary art ” is, by his daring and bright work schema as well as his radical […]

Today, travel has become an essential part of our lives. The sense of migration is no more the idea of settling and changing ways of life and environment from native to foreign. It is more like the stops in between, the stop between two journeys. This phenomenon questions our identity and the notion of belonging […]

“Next Level” highlights the breadth of international artists that the Sundaram Tagore Gallery represents. Sundaram Tagore Gallery’s mission is to create a cross-cultural dialogue among its art and artists, and with artwork from India, America, Israel and Japan, it achieves that goal. This show achieves something more than just a feel-good, pan-global display of art, […]

Curated by Zhu Qi, one of China’s premier critic/curators, the multimedia “Beyond Empire” exhibition at Arario Beijing promises to be a holistic highpoint in 2006, with over 30 prominent and emerging Chinese artists. The show revolves around questions of the changing nature of the "New China" as cities are torn down and rebuilt almost overnight […]

Leah Oates: Your recent solo show at Priska Juschka was a significant change of focus for your work. Previously you had worked with underground urban systems to build new and fictional territories. With the current work there is sculpture and other media along with paint. Please speak about what precipitated this shift.Dannielle Tegeder: My work […]

It wasn’t until after the communists took over Vietnam in 1975 that a young girl and her family were finally able to return to Saigon—Ho Chi Minh City, where they used to live before the Vietnam War. What they discovered there, was a partially evacuated metropolis. All of the Americans had fled and anyone who […]

Blurring or distorting the boundary between the traditional frameworks of painting and sculpture is hardly a creative approach without precedent in the art world since the early 20th century. Yet, beginning in 1979, Serbian artist Miroslav Pavlovic’s neo-constructivist essays on the topic have effectively confronted viewers time and again with the issue of dimensionality within […]

“It is all a little bit conscious and a little bit unconscious,” explains photographer Esther Varella, 27, about the juxtaposition between love and sickness, which synthesizes her work. This young Brazilian prodigy now resides in São Paulo, Brazil, after having lived nine years between New York and Los Angeles. She has been photographing since she […]

Where most artists navigate a mature career by uncomfortably modifying what’s best about their work in order to stay current or hip, few maintain the nuance, authority and creative curiosity that makes a difference. As an example of the latter, this conclusion is what one comes away with after seeing Otis Jones’ latest work at […]

Within the cannon of performance art, Sheila and Nicholas Pye delve into a constructed reality of photographic and cinematic possibilities. Sheila and Nicholas use the gestures of the body to build metaphors for marriage, dependency and mortality through imagery that is darkly poetic. Their latest exhibition, “A Life of Errors,” at Kasia Kay Art Projects […]