I got hooked on the craft of photography back in the 80s, and I decided to learn more by doing some part-time courses. I really liked the quick hit of producing an image, and the buzz of waiting to see how a picture I had taken would turn out. Although I had no idea about […]

On view in February at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center were five terra cotta pieces, which materialize a personal exploration of identity, displacement, and acculturation. The sculptor, Ovidio C. Giberga is a first generation Cuban-American who spent the earlier part of his life living abroad in Spain, Venezuela, Colombia and Italy. In his work […]

Self-taught artists are handicapped in as much as they did not have formal training, the guidance, and the contacts that academically taught artists have had. They are coming from a very different place. The “outsider” term covers a lot of different styles, from folk art to gritty urban graffiti. My work is mostly purely abstract […]

I started making the drawings…as a way to both counter and enhance this power, depending on my mood, as a way to gain false mastery of the words, of the language, and as a way to enter an alternative world in order to jump start my neurotransmitters during a nasty depression one winter, I started […]

A ghost materialized, wandering in the street of a city in the middle of the night—this was the feeling I had when I first saw the new works of Liu Xin-Tao. People fear the night because they can’t see the world as clearly as they do during the day, and that makes them feel they’re […]

The Post Apocalyptic Tattoo: A Ten Year Survey is a history of post-modern angst directed from the point of view of a tattoo artist. One of the intriguing things about this show is that the artist D. Dominick Lombardi claims to be a “vehicle for the Tattoo Artist” who “sends” the images. Lombardi in fact […]

Mixed Greens started in 1999 as the vision of a passionate collector, Paige West.  Paige was tired of people only being able to name dead artists. She wanted to give living artists, and, in particular, under-recognized artists, a platform. She started through documentary film and then, as the Internet took off, created the mixedgreens.com Web […]

For Wu Jun-Yong, the world is a circus and life is a performance full of diversity and banality. The images Wu creates are like sparkling phrases, composing a story that is never finished. For five years, Wu has been expanding his vocabulary of images that are multiplying like mushrooms after the rain. The little people […]

What roles do objects and gestures play in rites we perform in culture and how are they part of the production of identities? Can we reclaim and re-appropriate existing forms that have shaped and fixed the social roles we perform? Susan Sontag wrote that “to perceive camp in objects and persons is to understand Being […]

All of what I just mentioned, my education and life have inspired me, and made me who I am today. These experiences are enriching, and inspiration, for me, is the reaction to chaos. You observe, you express, you ask, you answer. It’s like a dialogue with yourself. Your feelings and thoughts find their own way […]