Benjamin Franklin’s paintings are undeniably seductive. Covered with a pristine coat of resin, their enamel-like surfaces gleam like freshly painted sports cars. Their vivid, candy-colored palette is equally crisp; its highly saturated colors have a cosmetic clarity, as appealing as freshly painted toenails. As objects, the paintings elicit a palpable desire, but within these jewel-like […]

Three concurrent solo exhibitions at Feigen Contemporary featuring artists Jennifer Coates, Susanne Simonson and Nick Blinko form a divine comedy, conjuring visions of heaven, hell and purgatory. Coates’ celestial landscapes are infused with brilliant color and soft radiance; Simonson’s paintings of spectral figures exist between murky realms of longing, memory and physicality, and Blinko’s drawings […]

São Paulo is a continuously sprawling home to approximately 20 million people, and the setting to a vibrant and active graffiti scene. Spawned from political protest, one of its many branches echoes Latin muralism and turns eyes towards a new niche in Brazilian artistic production.Much like the face of a theatre actor, the surface of […]

There’s a disquieting stillness to the hot rods in Jack Butler’s pinhole photographs. Streamlined shapes of hard steel that should suggest speed and testosterone-driven rivalries à la Rebel Without a Cause appear instead to float in a diffused wrap-around light, a knocked-back world of lustrous finishes and mechanical repose. But stillness has its advantages…by not […]

I began taking photos as an extension from my work in painting. At the time I felt that painting was not enough, I really needed a more forceful registry and I began to experiment with a camcorder, capturing motion images and then extracting photogram with software on my PC, a ridiculous system to work with, […]

Merchandise and customer service. These are the focus of Christine Hill’s current installation at Eigen + Art Gallery in Berlin. On the right-hand wall: a constellation of photographs depicting neighborhood shops, supplemented by information on the history of each of these family businesses, as part of her “Keep Shop Vendor Archive.” To the left: a […]

We are two interdisciplinary artists who have lived and worked together since 1994, turning our lives and actions into art. Our work moves freely between life, the visual arts and performance. The decision to live life as a performance and to make art a way of living creates a tension, which motivates our work. This […]

Perhaps the most instant decision was to include Alan Bond’s proposal to remake The Planetarium. This domed sculpture, made out of old doors and other reclaimed material, will fit snugly into Gallery Three at The Nunnery. The work, which has been assembled in a number of places before, but never in London, plays humorously with […]

Ironically, the continuing technological and communicational advances in our globalized present do not guarantee equal opportunities for all. Instead of generating a transnational community with a shared set of aesthetic and perceptual foundations, the art world remains structured as a set of multiple hegemonic systems. In order to fight against marginalization of the art scenes […]

It was one hot afternoon in 2004 when I was riding up Tenth Avenue on my bicycle in Chelsea when I first saw Chantel Foretich’s work through a window of a restaurant. Peering into the window, little did I know then that such an incidental gesture on my part was the presence behind her work; […]