Chris Johanson: When I first saw your work, I saw the little handmade books with complicated folds made out of fragile paper, and stencils that were painted on the sidewalks. Jo Jackson: I was so shy about making art. Everything was about being tiny and enfolded or authorless in the night. I was working in […]

I’m very attracted to the space within language where the ordinary meanings of words shift and suddenly we’re in new territory we couldn’t have dreamt of. The title of this painting comes from a Wallace Stevens poem with the line, “How clean the sun when seen in its idea”—possibly meaning that in making art, it’s […]

Somewhere between the shrouded depths of color and mended layers of texture lies the expression of energy, freed from rational control, and yet still clinging to the outline of a simple object. Automatic drawing and action painting developed by the Surrealists and Abstract Expressionist movements were in essence, journeys into the chaotic subconscious and the […]

Larry Carlson: As artists who use the assemblage process, we both sample fragments from the world of media streaming around us. I spend a lot of time collecting images, sounds, and videos on the internet as well as thrift stores and garbage cans. This process of searching for and categorizing media samples is an important […]

Irina Urumova has a knack for conveying the liminal in experience and culture; this talent was abundantly evident at a recent exhibition of her work at the Broadway Gallery, her first solo in New York City. This show, aptly titled kids:cute:sinister, offered a portrait of prepubescent desire as a Never Never Land where innocence, violence, […]

Jon Feinstein: There has been a lot of talk over the past few years about how the internet and the digital age are changing the nature of photography, how populist photo sites like Flickr and JPEG magazine, and online art/photo projects like Tinyvices, Humble, and now Fjord (as well as a million blogs!) are dramatically […]

Born in 1916 in Llandudno, Wales, and still an active artist, Sylvia Sleigh’s life and work deserve far more credit than what is usually afforded her: wife to critic Lawrence Alloway. Sleigh’s career reached its climax in the 70s when she decided to turn the male gaze in upon itself with some anti-traditional male odalisques. […]

Envisage individual moments seized by some anonymous invasion of a private physical boundary. See in a film each frame expand in narrative, through time, every one slipping elusively past like a painting lost to the flux of energies colliding over urban landscapes. Inspired by media-saturated environments, video, and other time-based media, artist Andrea Facco produces […]

There was a little Bigfoot who liked to play in mud pools after long days of rain. Mother Bigfoot always told him not to. Little Bigfoot never listened. One day, it rained a lot in the forest, but as the sun emerged from behind the clouds, little Bigfoot went outside to build a mud palace. […]

Nicholas Weist: Till, the narratives of your paintings are generally scenes of vague horror, dystopia, or pop culture gone brutally wrong. Do you feel you paint from life, or is it more of a forecast, a forewarning? Till Gerhard: I would say that I certainly do paint from life, as a lot of my source […]