Jim Shaw: Can you tell me your interest in the caverns of Los Angeles? Dani Tull: A few years ago I began a series of paintings and drawings that documented my explorations into the network of secret caverns that are under Los Angles. As a matter of fact, there are a few entrances that are […]

Jacques Louis Vidal:  I’d like to start our little Q&A by thanking you Justin, for raising my child, as if it were your own. Justin Lieberman:  Don’t play like you don’t know how we roll Jacques. I always suspected something. After all, how could I possibly have fathered a child made entirely out of wood […]

For artists, the natural world is an endless resource library of designs, patterns, textures, color schemes, and subjects. George Boorujy is a modern naturalist: he creates large-scale color ink drawings of arid landscapes, lonely ecosystems, and open terrains populated with vulnerable animals. His drawings explore the raw intersection of humanity and the natural world, under […]

Spiritual…I can see that as a problem. To be made to think that something is spiritual when it’s not, I mean. Not that the translation is. A problem. Obviously translations are not ever free of problems. Chances are we simply won’t “get it” as the more dense the material gets, such troubles double. The symbolism […]

This past April, the design fair Ilk in Milano displayed some of the most innovative and contemporary Turkish design works in Milan. Among the 30+ design-forward individuals was artist Yilmaz Zenger. Defining himself first and foremost as a teacher and creator, Zenger does not consider painting and sculpting his professional fields, but instead describes his […]

Barney’s De Lama Lamina, which translates roughly from the Portuguese to “of mud a blade,” was shot in real time against the backdrop of the annual Carnavale de Salvador, near the old center of Salvador, Brazil. The film follows a procession led by a colossal tree that seems to have been scooped up like ice […]

On day six of our visit to the Venice Biennale we made a special excursion to the highly publicized show Sequence 1, curated by Allison Gingeras at François Pinault’s Palazzo Grassi. It is a display of works from the museum’s private collection as well as additional pieces created on-site specifically for the show. It had […]

Derek Root’s most recent paintings respond to the found abstractions in images he selects from media reportage. He acknowledges that much of his process for these works lies in choosing which of these images to recreate and—when temptation wins out—reconfigure. Seeking images emptied of content and reference, the artist aims to explore their “formal possibilities […]

Danny Lyon’s photographic and film projects are characterized by a profound personal intimacy with his subjects. His best-known works include The Bikeriders (1968), a photographic odyssey following biker subcultures for which he joined and traveled with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang, and Conversations with the Dead (1971), an empathetic exploration of the lives of individuals […]

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 […]