Sonia Hendler: Your work encompasses a mix of political and social commentary with careful visual imagery, such as the Pictures of Flowers series. What is your creative process? Fia Backstrom: Political commentary belongs on the newspaper pages. I’m interested in operative work, which rather asks what is political and what is an image. Take for […]

Whitney May: I first saw your work A Family Finds Entertainment at the 2006 Whitney Biennial where I was immediately drawn in by its incredibly fast pace, full-bodied color scheme and unchecked exuberance. The overall tone of this and several other examples of your video work can be seen as nothing less than hysterical. Can […]

It was 1993 and I was in the high school auditorium standing on stage, hair down to the middle of my back, channeling my inner Slash and sweating profusely. A self-described art geek and bad at gym, this was the moment I had been waiting for. Then it happened. Our group lost. With my dreams […]

Ghettogloss serves the community. Beginning as a contemporary art gallery, art rental house and boutique, Ghettogloss expanded into a community-based staple of the alternative art culture in Los Angeles. With a name that says it all, Ghettogloss has always strived to keep the art of the streets in a fine art market and has always […]

Since an early age I was interested in drawing and the various arts in general. Some years ago I got interested in working with digital media and since then I have worked mostly with it. My pieces are a mix between photo manipulation, 3D elements, digital painting, and drawing. However, I’m no stranger to traditional […]

It’s beginning to look a lot like industry at Maccarone Gallery. Conveyor belts carry, hands handle, machines mix and mingle, and down by the hem of their parents’ coats children’s mouths become smudged with Paul McCarthy’s newest chocolate work: Santa with Butt Plug. James Hilger is NY Arts contributing writer based in Yonkers, New York. […]

I love the city, for many of the same reasons I love nature. There is a quiet to it when you really let go. When it is quiet I can see through the visual chaos and find amazing beauty. For several years now I have been working with the energy provided by the urban environment […]

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a traditional Mexican holiday that celebrates and honors the dead through colorful expressions in art, costumes, music, food, dance, and drink. It’s an important annual event culminating in “una fiesta en el cementerio” (a party in the cemetery.) Rick Castro is the curator and owner of […]

“This past October, on a lovely fall day just before Halloween, I took a stroll with my mouse friend through Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. Maybe it was obvious that I was a tourist, or maybe twelve-foot cats are rare in Chicago, but the local inhabitants noticed me right away and started migrating across the […]

I think in images. My work is inspired by strong emotions. I have been drawing since the age of four. I was a perfect, polite, cute little girl in a perfect, polite, cute little suburb of New York. One day, while I was out playing, a mental patient escaped from a nearby hospital and sexually […]