Craig Willse: Because your work has these very clean, minimal, formal aspects, people have connected what you’re doing to Modernism. What was Modernism trying to do that you’re not trying to do? Jonah Groeneboer: Modernism has, among its goals, a sort of absolute idealism that it tries to achieve. Absolutism often is so entrenched in […]

There are no great gestures, no posing, no breaching of taboos, no reference to current topics. His images of alienation from reality exist outside of time. They portray mortality and losing one’s grip on reality in pictures that are unspectacular. Pictures in which what the beam of a pocket flashlight makes fleetingly visible only that […]

Astria Suparak: You have a serious history in academia: You hold a Masters in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz and are finishing your PhD in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, have written for various institutions and magazines, and teach a course on the evolution of technology at NYU. You also actively exhibit and […]

We are permanently standing at the intersection of Forever and Now, witness to the moment at which the two liquefy to become one path, only to separate again. The paths are lined and flowing with every last thing the perceptual apparatus is equipped to encounter, and it is our task to interpret each facet, sorting […]

New York-based artist Nadiyah Jinnah was brought up in Africa and is of South Asian descent. She draws on the depths of a long cultural history and from the inspirational surroundings in which she finds herself during her travels across the globe for bold-hued “lifescapes.” More specifically however, in her recent show at Broadway Gallery […]

Rita McBride: Yesterday you described your process as cyclical. You called it a circular practice. Where do all of your thoughts and your decisions begin and end? Melissa Gordon: In my work there are often representations of images with references to specific events, histories, and people. All of the subject matter that I work with […]

Pieterjan Ginckels is a young Belgian artist whose recent project 1000 BEATS/1 BEAT is a seven-inch single featuring a single beat in an edition of 1000. He collaborated on the project with Barcelona-based, British artist Cristian Vogel, and Magnus Voll Mathiassen from the Norwegian design studio Grandpeople. Pieterjan Ginckels, Cristian Vogel, and Grandpeople, 1000 BEATS/1 […]

Dear scrappies, Shall we meet up soon to talk about ideas for the store for Secret Project Robot? I know everyone’s busy, but I am still into doing it. I have time this weekend and in general weekday evenings.  What do you say? My house, your house, etc. Missed u guys over the holidays Jojojo […]

Rocks are like people. They are an aggregate of materials formed slowly over time by nature and chance. They can be awkward and ungainly, but also glowing and beautiful. Rocks are easily identified and entirely common, yet there is something silent and mysterious about them. They are beautiful contradictions, and the same can be said […]

The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia, on the border of China and Nepal. The Himalayan mountain system is the planet’s highest and home to all 14 of the world’s highest peaks, the Eight-thousanders, including Mount Everest. In Tibetan, the mountain is called Chomolangma or Qomolangma ("Mother of the Universe"). Chomo means “Goddess,” while […]