• Perplexed in Public

      Wednesday, 24 September 2008 14:33

      This project brings together a select group of international artists whose practice is often the aesthetic manifestation of a will to express a position within the world, whilst generating an exchange with the audience. All participating artists have previously conceived works for public locations and frequently cooperate with other individuals or groups. Their works suggest […]

    • The Intimacy of the Photographic Gaze

      Wednesday, 24 September 2008 12:54

      From the beginning my work has been a reflection on gaze. How do we construct, in our experience, those eyes that look at us fixedly? How do we interpret and elaborate in our psyche the shadows, the highlights, and all the implicit landscape of each photograph? If our way of seeing evolves from social and […]

    • A Somber Carnival

      Wednesday, 24 September 2008 12:44

      I am a young artist based in Ghent, Belgium. Though I studied interior design in college, being an artist has always been my main ambition. After graduating in 2002, I decided to devote myself to art full time. Since then, I’ve shown my work in exhibitions throughout Belgium. My biggest inspirations are Francis Bacon and […]

    • Transnational Visions

      Wednesday, 24 September 2008 12:39

      I love mixing it up. I don’t care where my bits of imagery, paint strokes or techniques come from—once I set them on the canvas, they’re mine and I own them. I have an “everything goes” attitude when it comes to painting. I want it to be inclusive and democratic. Everything can have its say […]

    • Faux Naturale

      Tuesday, 23 September 2008 16:24

      It was around the time the movie The Happening came out when the interview with artist Roxy Paine took place. He had just returned from Art Basel earlier in June, where his latest piece, Inversion, was on view at the entrance to the fair. The Happening, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is about how nature, […]

    • Misused Couture

      Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:55

      I did this shoot for Vice Magazine’s 2008 fashion issue.  I’d wanted to do an anti-fashion shoot for some time, one in which all the clothes were worn incorrectly or used in a manner considered offensive.  For months, a post-it with "shove expensive clothes up someone’s butt" sat on my monitor. The editor at Vice […]

    • Olympia Resurfacing

      Monday, 22 September 2008 13:56

      With a body of work that spans over 35 years and ranges from early conceptual pieces to later works that include artificial intelligence robots and experimental films, Hershman Leeson is one of the most influential artists working in new media today. Updating Marchel Duchamp’s notion of “readymades,” Found Objects is a new series that displays […]

    • Woodland Masquerade

      Monday, 22 September 2008 13:10

      The images I’m driven to make are often a mystery, even to myself. Impressions, feelings and ideas come to me unexpectedly. When I meet people and hear their stories, I’m fascinated and left with a desire to explore what can happen between us in front of the camera. Forests, created sets, and nightscapes are the […]

    • Standing Beneath the Spotlight

      Monday, 22 September 2008 12:51

      There are more women working in the contemporary photography world than ever before. Their methods and subjects run the gamut of artistic possibility, but what unites them is the passion and effort they devote to creating extraordinary bodies of work. Women in Photography, a new online venue created by Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips, is […]

    • There Is No “I” in Sound

      Saturday, 20 September 2008 13:02

      We honor music as a vibration that cannot be captured or recorded; it exists in an independent and ephemeral moment reliant upon the environment and the people within it. During our performances we create a group mind shared by both the animate and inanimate objects within an area. We do this through the use of […]