Seine Fotos scheinen oft unwirklich, beinahe wie gemalt. Wir betrachten vermeintlich irreale Szenen aus der angeblich bizarren Welt des Fetisch und Sadomasochismus. Illusorisch und dabei gnadenlos demaskierend erzählt er uns Geschichten. Man sich fragt, ob es behagt und ob man den dargestellten Fantasien wirklich erlegen sein muss, um den erotischen Reiz der Bilder wahrhaftig zu […]

Neil Hamon’s work evokes a variety of distinct ambiguous and implicitly dubious feelings. "In general terms, I’m interested in our relationship with loss and how we are lured into creating fictions or narratives in an attempt to overcome it," he states. Based on solid research, meticulous construction and more recently presented in a cinematographic approach, […]

Jeph Gurecka has his eye on the bigger picture. While some of his artwork could be aligned with an aggressive, counter-cultural attitude, it all nonetheless speaks to human concerns such as the cycle of life, the role of memory and nostalgia. Gurecka typically works with media already invested with conventional significance, but that also resonate […]

Intimacy is a complex exchange and its peculiarities understandable only to those involved. Gateway to inadequacy, isolation and frustration is in its counterpart, alienation, both physical and emotional. Mauro Piva’s coherent body of work, begun in 1999, consistently and systematically explores the subtleties and dynamics of these themes through two recurring faceless figures distinguishable only […]

A city like São Paulo is not particularly conducive to meandering. In the sea of almost 20 million people a vast majority drive from A to B. During their long and gridlocked transit, glances out of the window allow for degrees of recognition of an outer layer of what they see but perhaps never truly […]

Alexis Hubshman, -scope’s 35 year old president and the sole owner of -scope Art Fairs, is ecstatic and why shouldn’t he be. Just this past March, -scope New York, with its 14,000 visitors and sales of over seven million dollars, shattered all alternative art fairs sales and attendance records. The Scoop on -scope Edward Rubin […]

Seventeenth century Dutch society a hotbed of hedonism? These folks fully enjoyed the pleasures of the flesh, judging by the 34 paintings on view in "Amorous Intrigues and Painterly Refinement: The Art of Frans van Mieris."On view at the National Gallery of Art, this retrospective is the first devoted to Van Mieris (1635-1681), perhaps the […]

Children playing with dolls generally make good photo-ops. They fit well on wall calendars, interspersed amongst images of flowers and colorful birds, to be gazed at while listening to CDs with sounds of the rainforest. But photographer David Seymour photographed a different kind of child: the vulnerable, persecuted sort that frolics not on picturesque jungle […]

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize was announced this past March at the Photographer’s Gallery in London, awarding Robert Adams the prize of 30,000 pounds (roughly $52,600.00), which his representative, longtime friend Gerry Badger, promptly donated to a human rights organization. Contemporary Culture and Global Responsibility Emilie Trice Alec Soth, Charles, Vasa, MN. Chromogenic color prints. […]

The art scene here might well be called "burgeoning" if that overused term didn’t already imply so much hyperbole. Clustered around the University of Oklahoma–the largest university in the state with an enrollment of over 30,000 students–a small group of talented artists has emerged that has reawakened the arts community in this small college town. […]