Artist Statement Carol Caputo     Carol Caputo, EFFUSE, acrylic, 68″ x 68″.       As avisual scavenger of the city, I’m interested in capturing the moment. My workis about random opportunities, adventures and discoveries. It’s aboutconnecting the visual, emotional and organic entities that share ourenvironment.   Myprocess begins by collecting textures and shapes […]

James Little: Reconsideration of an Engagement Horace Brockington Over thelast twenty years James Little has exhibited extensively in group and soloprojects at museums and galleries around the United States and Europe. He hasis the recipient of several awards and honors, including the prestigiousPollack-Krasner Foundations Award. The artist over the years has held true to arather […]

Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation Allan Graubard             Potentiallyautarkic solitary sexual pleasure touches the inner lives of modern humanity inways that we still do not understand. It remains poised between self-discoveryand self-absorption, desire and excess, privacy and loneliness, innocence andguilt, as does no other sexuality in our era. […]

German Sculptors Abroad Piri Halasz   David Evison. Silken Thread. 2002. Steel, 191″ x 152″ x 125″       In the U.S., constructivistsculpture is all too often considered beyond the postmodernist pale, since itallows (indeed, requires) the artist to impress his or her personal vision uponthe material, instead of eliminating the human touch through […]

A Crown a Day, or The Heavy Burden of the Pom-pom Matthias Harder       Sati Zech, Krone 2     When something surprises or fascinates us, it has adifferent way of sticking in our minds than something familiar; it is imprintedonto our subconscious and is then constantly processed and reworked. Oneexample of this […]

The Ends of Art Kirk Hughey       “Frankly,if you’re investing in art in order to make money, you’re a fool… from aninvestment point of view, you’d be better off putting your money in lotterytickets.” (an anonymous London art-dealer)   Increasinglywe can see the art-world as a purely commercial enterprise fueled by strategiessimilar to […]

At Play with Lance Dehne Aaron Zimmerman         Lance Dehne, Salami, 2003, Color Pencil on Paper, 6″x8″.       Lance Dehne writes onArtineering: “It’s about art, mechanics, sculpturology, engineering, botany,ornithology, ideology, physiology, sculpturology, colorology, and visionology.Conceptual ideas are rethought, reworked, fine tuned, and molded into afunctional and aesthetic product.” Seems all […]

Cornelia Schleime – „Von Angesicht zu Angesicht“ Lisa Schreiber       Cornelia Schleime, Kleiner Tiroler, 2001. Mischtechnik, 200x160cm           style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>„Ich neige zum Extremen, mir f�lltes schwer die Mitte zu finden“, ist die Aussage der Ost-Berliner K�nstlerinCornelia Schleime, die seit dem 16.11.03 im Museum Junge Kunst in FrankfurtOder einen umfangreichen Auszug aus […]

“SCI-ART: Extensions of Being (Part II)”[i] M-1000         Adam Bradley, Carrier, sculpture, 90�x144�x108�, 1998       In SandyStone’s book, Split Subjects, Not Atoms; or How I Fell in Love with MyProsthesis, shewrote about her experience of seeing Stephen Hawking give a speech. She was bewilderedby how much of him was the […]

Cooking the Emulsion Olga Chemokhud Doty           In aneffort to learn more about the various Polaroid image transfer methods, Ivisited the Polaroid corporation site. Until recently, they sponsored artistswho were experimenting with instant print techniques and the cameras thatproduced them. Now the company has tightened its belt and is not as […]