Spilling white gouache on a smooth surface such as paper, embracing accidents. I work with watercolors in this way. Sometimes I use washable markers and pour water, dripping big drops onto the marker-colored surface. Letting the medium spread as it wishes, I work intuitively. I gather my own pulse and master it. I don’t have […]

Catherine Yu-Shan Hsieh: Last fall you had your first solo show The Girls Show Dostoyevsky the New Darkness at Marvelli Gallery in New York City. How did that feel? How did the audience receive it? Margaux Williamson: It felt ok. Growing up, I saw art mainly in art books, or Laurie Anderson at the hippy […]

I’m a New York-based artist working in video and photography. I started my studies at Marymount Manhattan in film and video, and transferred to the School of Visual Arts to focus on photography, without abandoning my interest in film. I started with black-and-white photography that I often ended up hand coloring and so eventually switched […]

I work in an interdisciplinary manner. My interests in the relationship between identity and place manifest themselves in a body of work that incorporates performance, video, and installations. Fascinated with the power of humor and its capability to grab the attention of a wider audience, I employ a tongue-in-cheek style in my work. However, the […]

“Like the Chapmans and Caine, there is an irreverence and dark humor that runs throughout Lanina’s work. She delivers a punked out, pre-pubescent ‘Boschian’ universe, one for the morally relativistic set.”   Pre-pubescent Bosch Carla Gannis The Mechanical Dolls of Yuliya Lanina were on view at Scope Miami 2007 Yuliya Lanina, Lullaby. Courtesy of the […]

Wearing a pair of baggy jeans, a khaki shirt, and a military green cap, Koba dropped the lines of his song “Rise Up Move” at the Five Points (formerly Teabag,) an independent arts organization in China Town, New York City: “Rise up like global warming / Like a new morning / This is our warning, […]

The Georgian splendor of Asia House in London’s West End recently played host to the work of the 40 year old Burmese artist, Htein Lin. Lin was an established comic, performance artist, and contemporary artist before his arrest in 1998 by the Orwellian sounding S.L.O.R.C. or State Law and Order Restoration Council, and given a […]

Catherine Yu-Shan Hsieh: Last fall you had your first solo show The Girls Show Dostoyevsky the New Darkness at Marvelli Gallery in New York City. How did that feel? How did the audience receive it? Margaux Williamson: It felt ok. Growing up, I saw art mainly in art books, or Laurie Anderson at the hippy […]

The exhibition False, organized by Platform China, talks about the spread of falseness as an active element in our life. In contemporary China, as the pace of the society development is increasing, people feel the need to use culture-related things to guard themselves against the tide of this development, which breeds a pseudo-culture. As people […]

The human condition has been the main source of motivation in my art. I draw from the human circumstances that flourish between reality and perception. Born and raised in Korean myth culture and adopting Buddhist philosophy, I assume that the world we are living in is not real. It is merely an illusion that we […]