My creative inspiration for photography stems a great deal from film and literature. When I work with someone on creating an image, I believe myself to be unconsciously filled with flashes of textures, frames, actions, colors, and much more. Those flashes mix with narrative voices and the result is a collective of my influences and […]

My studio practice includes a constant process of research and response to natural events and phenomena that captivate me. They serve as an impetus to weave these seemingly isolated events into a larger contextual tale. I am especially interested in how the landscape and weather systems are altered by the human hand, the driving social […]

I’m a U.K.-born artist of Armenian descent who’s been living in Hong Kong for many years. I came there by accident, and was able to make enough money, working construction, to finance the staging of my own exhibitions of figurative oil paintings. Within a few years I was selling well enough to quit the day […]

The year is 2051, and Mineko is a 70-year-old female pilot flying over the Indian Ocean, on her way to Sri Lanka. The sky is clear; there’s a mild wind blowing to the southwest, and Mineko is smiling as she stares into the sun through a pair of orange bubble shades. Miles below and on […]

After many years of constructing and installing immense plywood structures with a range of imagery, Michael Zansky began to switch his focus to large optical installations, the largest of which was American Panopticon. Today, he is creating smaller tableaus in which a psychological drama unfolds through Fresnel lenses that bend and distort creating otherworldliness. Using […]

Based in Victoria, Australia, self-taught artist Helen Joynson has shown her paintings around the world, including the European Outsider Art Fair earlier this year. Shifting between two approaches—complete abstraction and naïve figuration—her oeuvre is compelling in its diversity. Her painterly approach revolves around the uncovering the spirit of each color. She paints intuitively, instinctually coloring […]

Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, creating series of images that explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of queer subcultures to her expansive urban landscapes, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in […]

My photographs are part of a tradition of erotic art that employs exaggeration, mystery, and the guilty pleasures of voyeurism. The photographs are about the forms employed in narrative-based erotic art as contrasted with erotica crafted to merely to display the explicit. The work concerns the art of presentation, the mystery of anticipation, and the […]

A squatting person crouches his body, a red shadow cast on the ground, against a bright yellow backdrop. This is the work of artist Ma Yue. Ma uses this imagery and a unique language to speak for the common people, voicing their nightmares. Throughout the Squatting series, Ma’s special consideration for the ordinary people is […]

The most important part of my work is the translation of interior thought into narrative image. For quite a while, my paintings operated as a loose painted collage of images from photographs found in magazines. This involved lots of sifting through magazines, photocopying or ripping out pages, and looking for the right images to paint […]