When I was a little kid, I used to love to graffiti moustaches and eye patches and assorted types of teeth onto the photos in magazines. Transforming the nice people into something to laugh at, something that looked creepy or disgusting was fun. There was a strange power in over-accessorizing the beautiful or the normal. […]

For his second solo exhibition at Guild and Greyshkul, “The Navigator’s Quarters Must Not be Disturbed,” Halsey Rodman proposes the conceit of an absent doppelganger—the Navigator—in order to explore the very nature of the creative process, space, time and the metaphysics of existence. In the central portion of the gallery, the artist constructs a dwelling […]

I had some artistic talent as a child, so my parents decided to place me in a series of small private art schools. In one painting school, us kids were expected to copy existing art works: poor color repros culled from magazines and books such as Winslow Homer’s The Herring Net, 1885, and those big-eyed […]

Sibylle Fendt’s photo series, “Uneins,” portrays the living spaces and the faces of so-called “pathological hoarders;” pack-rats who cannot distinguish the useful from the useless, whose homes have become overrun with so much junk that they cannot begin to categorize it. Psychologically, the outer chaos of this condition indicates an inner trauma that remains concealed, […]

Last year, I reviewed an exhibition at the Jack Tilton Gallery which included work by Jenny Perlin. She showed an explicit example of what could be considered postmodern art in her piece entitled, Sight Reading. In it, three professional musicians sight-read a composition by Schumann. Every time they made a mistake the screen would go […]

I was born in Germany in the heart of the Ruhr-district in 1951. In 1985, I already wanted to create the kind of erotic photography I do today, but the time was not ripe for it then: I didn’t find any models who were willing to work out particular photographic interpretations together with me nor […]

The art of drawing, often understated in the public perception, comes to the fore in the group exhibition “Drawing on the Wrong Side of the Brain,” curated by the art critic and writer Lyle Rexer. Indeed, the manual dexterity of the hand to perform certain subtle movements, like hand-writing, sewing and knitting have nearly lost […]

The psycho-geography of San Francisco leads one to a cubist-like mindset. From the hills to the valleys, the little city’s landscape allows for subconscious challenges of fixed points of view, and the comprehension of the existence of multiple simultaneous perspectives. A short drive in any direction will take you to lush forests, vast deserts or […]

In a series of 25 beautiful surface designs, Joel Seah seduces the viewer with dynamic colors and luscious patterns. Produced both in the format of sample sheets and lengths of actual wallpaper, “Love Stories” is a tactile and visually stunning experience. However, upon closer inspection, the appearance of another dialogue begins to emerge. “Love Stories” […]

“Artists Against The State: Perestroika Revisited,” curated by Marco Nocella, Peggy Jarrell Kaplan and Ronald Feldman, present over 50 non-conformist conceptual artists from the former Soviet Union. This exhibition represents several generations of artists who worked outside the parameters of sanctioned art and strove against all odds to gain freedom of artistic expression that was […]