Cinema has no beginning. It is another dimension, another ecology with myriad faces and imaginal emanations. Paranaturalist cinema is one such emanation. It is expanded in idea and unruly, a mercurial methodology in a Paranaturalist philosophy my collaborators and I have proposed to gain insight and develop experimental and analytical means to learn from observation. […]

Organizational systems, networks, interconnection, and interdependence are heavily evident in Mafalda Santos’ work. From the start of her career, the artist has shifted between works on canvas or paper, and direct interventions in exhibition spaces. The relationships between the different media she chooses and the abstract context of her work serve equally as substrates for […]

Minimalist artists Peter Weber and Bill Thompson create accessible art by deceptively simple means. Both artists have a singularly controlled vision defined by visually compelling abstract elements that send an immediate message. There is nothing in the art of either left to chance. That the works are well crafted and fully resolved adds to their […]

Despite having lived and worked in Germany for many years, Palmira Hernández de Lueck was born in Guadalajara, a city in the north of Mexico. Remaining rooted in the artistic soil of her homeland, a sense of her cultural ancestry, and her internal psyche is reflected in these stunning works.   Suzie Walshe  These sumptuous […]

Cecilia Muhlstein: I recently came back from San Francisco where I saw the Joseph Cornell exhibit at MOMA. The ephemeral dreams, found objects, words, important to his work, are refracted in your films. I notice like Cornell’s work, your films engage in dreams which become places, where language appears in the unexpected, and the fantasy–even […]

A group of Japanese artists in the 50s called the Gutai group worked closely around the idea of painting as an autobiographical record, performing action painting by using their bodies. I enjoy looking at images of their work and the photo or video documentation of their performances.   Yui Kugimiya was born and raised in […]

The press release for Ira Cohen’s retrospective contains a saying by Jimi Hendrix, Ira Cohen’s friend from bygone times: “Looking at these pictures is like looking through butterfly wings.” This major show is devoted to an unusual American artist. An exhibition of photographs of “reflected human forms in fluid metamorphosis” created by Cohen in the […]

As one year of war in Iraq and Afghanistan has folded into the next, the initial sense of national emergency has faded into a state of uneasy complacency. The war is over there; its significance is not immediate in the lives of most Americans. Its real costs and real consequences in human terms are known […]

In 1998, I enrolled in a degree in Visual Arts at the Escola Superior de Arte e Design (ESAD). It was a relatively new school in Portugal, located in a small Portuguese municipality called Caldas da Rainha. This town was already associated with some art movements of some importance in Portugal, and also had an […]

Dear Erotic Art Enthusiasts, Greetings from San Francisco, the clitoris of the USA. We are pleased to share with you a bit about our lives and work regarding the subject of “erotic” art. We are two artists in love in the grand tradition of artist couples such as Yoko and John, Gertrude and Alice, Gilbert […]