The excitement I get from painting comes from the challenge of making it engage the world I experience, while consciously acknowledging such a dense and complicated history as a medium. I’m not trying to create “new” paintings, just ones that feel appropriate to our constantly changing world. I have always been interested in the twilight […]

A recent group show at The Broadway Gallery NYC in Soho brings together a diverse group of artists from around the world. The exhibition, which features Carmen Delaco, Piero Golia, Ioanna Voskou, Michel Blouin, Peter Mueller, and Ingrid Stiehler, explores ludic expressions, as seen from both figurative and abstract perspectives. Exploiting the psychological tension between […]

My primary intent as an artist is to hold up a mirror to my audience. Not the kind of mirror that shows the lumps and bumps in life, therefore causing one to turn away in disgust, but one that allows a person to look deeper, to stop, reflect, and then to adjust their notion of […]

Two girls are leaning against a large tree, an intravenous drip in their arms. They are passing anxious days, threatened by a looming death. In Japan, Web sites seeking suicide mates are spreading; boys and girls with the mutual wish to kill themselves are prevalent, and increasing. Consequently, this has become a social problem. Ai […]

This is an age of imagery. We see a great number of pictures every day. People want better and better quality for the images they see. The more exaggerative, the more exciting, the more sensational the image is, the better. However, if an artist creates an image solely for the sake of getting attention, without […]

Drawing on theoretical discourse related to the semantics of desire and difference, curator Basak Malone constructs a platform for multiple investigations of liminal space through Lure, recently presented at Broadway Gallery in SoHo. Reinterpreting classic texts from French structuralist and post-structuralist theory, Malone skillfully orchestrates a compelling constellation of works by a group of serious […]

My pictures are far from being documentary photographs or snapshots. However, I make them for much the same reason that people take pictures of historic events or their travels or a child’s first steps: to bear witness, to remember, to say, “This is special. I was there. This is what I saw.” This desire to […]

Photographs are light, images cut from the present. They act as reports of a life, a perfect portrait. Photography is stealing the soul of things that are observed: expecting, idealistically, the perfect moment. To photograph is to falsify reality, to create a story, to tell a story. Many times it is false, old, and depicts […]

I am an interdisciplinary artist, using the mediums of photography, video, and new media as forms of expression. My work explores the nature of performance, reality, and the moments in between. I am interested in the conflict between what is being represented and what is, under closer observation, actually occurring. The Exit Series explores longing, […]

Possibly influenced by the cartoon culture, Xia Hang’s graduation project was a man in the form of a comma. In the three years he’s trying to enter an MA program, Xia developed this concept of the comma man with the support of the New Era Gallery. First, he made the comma man in stainless steel, […]