I’m interested in strong contrasts–generally everywhere–in particular, in art. I really like to mix everything myself…in my mind, in my art. I’ve been interested in alchemy, occultism, and esotericism since I was young. I really like using sexual imagery, especially freakish dark sexual imagery in my artworks, because I like to play with all I […]

Not too many people remembered The Offs, the peripheral San Francisco cult punkers who made a few albums in the early 80s, until two of the band’s members died of heroin overdoses. If it were not for the fact that the group hung out with Jean Michel Basquiat–who desperately wanted to join the band in […]

Through drawing and film Erica Eyres invites the viewer into an uneasy world of disenchanted youth and beyond. Eyres is fascinated by the absurd and how we, as humans, react when faced with situations which generate conflicting emotions. Eyres creates characters from her shrewd observations of both daily life and the manufactured world of the […]

Morgan O’Hara has been developing her series of drawings, known as Live Transmissions, since 1982 and at BAM since the mid 1990s. These drawings, which the artist calls “time-based performances,” are created by tracking and recording the movements of her various subjects using pencil and paper. Over the years, O’Hara created some of the more […]

I believe in dirty hands. Before I really took up painting, I experimented with other media like radio, sound, and photography. Yet I never felt at home working with these media as they lack the tactile quality of painting and drawing. Working with a camera, a tape recorder, or a computer never gave me a […]

My work consists of representing an everlasting, perfect place. I make images in order to present the possibility of life after death. I want to confront the spectator with real views about the ending of the world as we know it, and the creation of the new one. Western society, with its hard rationalism and […]

I am a filmmaker and former underground warehouse party promoter based in New York. I am the founder of Sterile Cowboys & Co., the entity that produced PRODUCT, a monthly cable access show in New York, which aired between 2000 and 2004. This subcultural magazine not only showcased pop culture excess, but it also solicited […]

Mary Cook: First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your fourth show at Roebling Hall, The Castle, The Meadow and The City. You certainly have been quite busy over the years. You have been studying film, and you have exhibited extensively overseas at the Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art […]

Platform China is a Beijing-based multi-function art organization, established since 2005. The main aim of Platform China is to develop and promote contemporary art in China and to build up a platform for cultural exchange and dialogue between Chinese and international artists. Its main gallery (1,100sq.m) is located in Caochangdi—a newly developed art district in […]

"Despite the infiltration of darkness into his oeuvre, his travels have made him keenly aware of the transformative and spiritual power of light. He writes, ‘My paintings are… meant to reflect the shrines and innermost sanctuaries of… those places. Under this inspiration, I depict in my art real and dream places or dark light, of […]