Agnès Pezeu meets me with a wide smile, her long golden hair flowing. Her studio has the shape of a half moon. Canvases are hung like tapestries; others are rolled on the floor. She pulls out of the shelf her sketchbook. A series of heads drawn in charcoal appears on the page. In an ample […]

This year, aside from my collaborative projects, I have been making black photographs. The photographs are printed black from 4-by-5 negatives. Although no image can be seen in the print, the content is described in the titles: Woman Waiting (referencing a Faith Wilding piece), Two Friends at Home (referencing a Diane Arbus photograph of lesbians), […]

Contemporary art in Guizhou usually impresses viewers as “bizarre,” “neurotic,” and “whimsical.” People consider Guizhou as a place where there are no great artists. This is partly because Guizhou is located in the mountainous area southwest of China, which makes it difficult to reach, hence the lack of cultural exchange with the rest of the […]

I shall be honest; I never was interested in photography in any form two years ago. I would look at a photo, perhaps in a magazine, on a billboard, but didn’t look any further than the image itself. I didn’t know any photographers, and didn’t go to galleries. However, I’ve always been interested in women, […]

The souls of the pity are the souls of people who died prematurely: the warriors on the battlefield, the resentful women who lived in the closed palace, and the children who died prematurely. The pitiful souls of these people are in the circle of a samsara. My new piece, The Souls of Premature Death 2, […]

In Ethereal Minds, NY Arts Beijing Space’s recent group exhibition of the NY Arts Residency program artists, Francisco Bustamante Gubbins, Bryce Hudson, Peter Mathias, Leah Oates, and Pierre St-Jacques presented a collection of their works and works-in-progress, all of which signaled diverse approaches to the notion of “ethereality.” Chilean artist, Francisco Bustamante Gubbins usually creates […]

Julie Mehretu: City Sitings brings together 12 of the artist’s monumental paintings inspired by community, history, and the built environment. Mehretu’s compelling canvases re-envision urban experience, and rewrite narratives of exclusion, reconciling divergent histories through her expansive, dynamic compositions. Mehretu’s work evokes highly personalized, yet distinctly universal themes that draw on her experiences as a […]

Liu Jian-Hua is an artist who is constantly exploring and trying to outdo himself. In his work, there has always been a concern for social issues, a critique of social problems. There has also been a reflection on how the world influences human psyche, a reflection that is strongly self-conscious and melancholy. When it comes […]

The Adventure series was inspired from a commission to shoot nudes. Never having approached the subject matter prior to the assignment, I knew only that I would want to photograph my subjects in natural landscapes as opposed to the comfortable confines of the indoors. However, simply photographing a person nude in the great outdoors was […]

León Ferrari and Mira Schendel are considered among the most significant artists working in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century. Their works address language as a major visual subject matter: the visual body of language, the embodiment of voices as words and gestures, and language as a metaphor of the worldly […]