In our post-9/11 world, we are saturated by images of torture, both by our enemies and by our own government. Terror is pervasively present in the visual environment: stories from Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers, reports on the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and images of Abu Ghraib, have become a part of our collective […]

Since the very beginning and until today, Ange Leccia’s work has taken up residence at the margins of reality, not far enough out to be absurd, but just beyond the ordinary, in other words, right where a view can become an image. Images, what’s more, were always what Leccia was about, who got his first […]

When I photograph, I try to incorporate experimentation, discarded trends, and a sense of story. My projects explore the relationship between subject and environment, holding reverence to the human condition. I am currently working on a project involving women, nude, in their homes. I started the series in the summer of 2007; the first “home […]

At my age, what mix in our minds are a bizarre material world, a cruel reality, and impractical ideas. I always describe my feelings with a word “obsessed.” Everything confuses me, yet cannot stop me. In this fast-changing society, we are bereft of real life. I cannot avoid any kind of relationships, but interact with […]

It doesn’t seem like a good idea for one to always talk about her work, especially when she talks to no one but her computer. But I still want to talk about my creative process, and things like emotions, time, flaws, and creativity. These phrases have been occupying my mind, like a shrub growing, and […]

ARTWALKING: Bedford Ave was curated by Eyewash founder and director Larry Walczak and independent curator Donna Kessinger. This exhibition, considered the largest public art installation of its kind in the borough of Brooklyn, ran from April 27 through June 8 and featured 30 artist installations in storefronts on Bedford Avenue, running from North 3rd to […]

New York avant-garde artist Barbara Rosenthal, an American art export with attitude, created her latest performance work, Existential Interact, in Berlin this summer. And she wasn’t the only American to choose this time and place to strut their stuff. Barack Obama came in July. Both Americans brought their national persona of self-invention, self-reliance, charisma, improvisation, […]

My work stems from an interest and exploration of space, both physical and psychological. My current body of work is owed to an intense and persistent studio practice. Visually, the work is pared down. Excess marks and information have been stripped away; leaving only what is necessary to transport the viewer to an idealized place […]

The creative process requires an artist to do experiments continually to invent the best conditions for the birth of art. At the same moment that a problem is successfully resolved, one discovers that a new problem immediately arises and follows. This continuous cycle of death and rebirth embodies the knowledge that I frequently apply and […]

Unlike most noted experimental artists, Shen Shao-Min did not receive a formal academy education. Instead, the starting point of his artistic path was completely by way of another course. First, he participated in the production of visual culture for Cultural Revolution, then organized artistic propaganda for the masses—including drawing posters, making slide shows, and screening […]