Catherine Y. Hsieh: How long have you been doing Chinatown Garbage Tour? Nate Hill: The tour has been going on since July of last year. CH: What made you decide to do such a project? NH: It was to teach people about my art and how they could do it themselves. I was trying to […]

Past-Forward brings together 29 international contemporary artists whose works manipulate, replay, and disrupt borrowed structures from mass culture, media, art history and industry. The artists in Past-Forward question the means and ends of artistic production in the face of an increasingly globalized culture. Appropriation, quotation, re-contextualization and revision are common techniques in the works, alternately […]

When I was a child my grandmother would take me fishing by the steel mills in Baltimore. Sometime around noon the fish would stop biting and I would pace the lengths of the pier with her camera making photographs of jellyfish and minnows. Weeks later, she would scold me for wasting film when the prints […]

As I walk into the Joan Grona Gallery, the unusual setting chosen by the artist immediately captivates me. A material such as vinyl is not commonly seen as the backdrop of a photograph. This unorthodox display sets the viewer up for the contradictions witnessed in the work itself. These large vinyl sign banners depict photographs […]

Most of my recent pictures are the size of either a page or a person. This is partly a result of the work’s sources (digital or printed documents and photographs) and subjects (human figures). It is also—and perhaps more importantly—a consequence of my technique, and by extension, of certain ideas about figures and figuration that […]

Mieke Vanmechelen’s epic canvases portray atmospheric landscapes sometimes glimpsed beneath washes of hallucinogenic color, at other times through nets of thickly patterned marks. Driven by ideas and process simultaneously, her works are an exploration of materiality through a conceptual framework initially influenced by Modernist Reductionism and Expressionism. The Flanders-born artist approaches her medium in a […]

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 […]

When I came home one morning, I found my best friend and her boyfriend conversing in bed. He was asking her many detailed questions about my boyfriend’s cock, as he had just found out that there was a new photograph of it on my Web site that she had seen. He wanted to know the […]

Our backgrounds are in poetry, music, and theater, and we generally think of our work as a kind of opera, whether it’s presented in a theater, gallery, or online. Recently, however, we’ve been thinking a lot about architecture, especially the relationships between physical structures, social institutions, and social power. This recent interest in architecture has […]

David Elshout: I missed the pulsating energy of New York City, coming back again felt familiar. Upon arrival, I found out the guys had prepared a cool basic graphic theme, with a strong industrial 1920s feel. All our social and artistic influences morphed into a giant piece made on site, which gradually evolved to the […]