Through the use of video and photography, much of my work seeks to examine both psychological and visceral aspects within the nature of subjectivity. I have been exploring issues of mortality and identity, through the context of the performative. My video work portrays given gestures, “acted-out,” directly to the camera/viewer, which are, most often, recorded […]

My work for the past seven years has been revolving around the notions of sexuality and identity. Although during the initial years of my art education it seemed drawing and painting were my strongest visual platform, photography and performance became increasingly my area of focus, and the perfect ground to explore all these questions and […]

By now, Liu Zheng’s photography is well known among contemporary art circles, as well it should be—prior to this summer, his most critically acclaimed series, The Chinese, was exhibited at Yossi Milo Gallery over three years ago. In the years since, these understated portraits of contemporary Chinese society have been compared to the work of […]

I was doing the “dollar” thing when more and more people came to know me. But I had done quite a few performances before that, for example Red Flag Canal, where I dyed a section of the railroad red. Such works bear strong cultural features of contemporary China. People ask me why I dyed the […]

The representation of drawing within the scope of fine art is still a marginalized genre that appears most prominently in street art and comics. Loaded at the Phatory gallery of the East Village offered me the chance to present a small selection of drawings and paintings by Saul Chernick and Ernest Concepcion. Drawing upon vernacular […]

Through my art I explore the relationship between the body and identity while raising questions regarding the status of photography in a digital age. I seek to question the basic assumption that the self is distinct from the other, to portray physical identity and psychological identity as unstable and permeable. I present the body not […]

A diverse selection of figurative and abstract art, Prelude showcased works from international artists April Bending, Arvee, Erica Ronnbeck, Eugénie Dammer, Georgeta Stefanescu, Hans Johansson, Kurt Rostek, Monika Wally, Peggy Zehring, Herwig Maria Stark, Helen Joynson, and Ria Bisseling. The show demonstrates a balance of abstraction and the figure. Geometric shapes are the dominant theme. […]

I like humoristic art, so I use this method to express my ideas. Sociology and urban anthropology are useful methods for observing humans in society. But when they try to explain the relation between human and society, logics of common language turn to become useless. This is the one of the main reasons I’ve chosen […]

I like humoristic art, so I use this method to express my ideas. Sociology and urban anthropology are useful methods for observing humans in society. But when they try to explain the relation between human and society, logics of common language turn to become useless. This is the one of the main reasons I’ve chosen […]

Friday, May 16, 2008. Cloudy. The surroundings here are extraordinary! The whole street is filled with a turbulent atmosphere, rousing, perplexing, alarming, and surreal. Jutta and I attended a fundraiser for victims of the Sichuan earthquake, organized by a fellow artist. After the meal, everybody quietly put money in a glass bowl, placed in front […]