In terms of both its popularity and its many developments over the past decade, the medium of digital art has experienced a rapid incline, and, through his expertly wrought experimentations within this particular art form, artist and visionary Ric Globus has consistently made it look easy. It is for this reason that artist and curator […]

Like an endless labyrinth erratically winding and pushing towards new directions with no conclusive destination, Turkish artist Bedri Baykam transcends artistic progression. Developmental patterns do not exist within the artist’s prolific career; for Baykam resides in a world laden with gray, an environment in which x is y, and the very notion of dichotomies collapses […]

Austria is a phenomenon between definitions. As a geographical, historical and lingual expression of this, we might ask whether the art of the country also represents its dichotomies. Landlocked to the north by Germany and the Czech Republic, to the east by Slovakia and Hungary, to the south by Slovenia and Italy and to the […]

Artist, gay activist and iconoclast Charles Merrill is enjoying a prolific period of creativity by addressing his social concerns in his art. A move last year to Palm Springs, California, with its brilliant sunlight inspired Merrill to integrate aspects of Cubism into his latest work, particularly the use of form and bright color. Like Picasso […]

Chen Fei’s pink-skinned, sausage-bodied characters couldn’t be rounder, pudgier or more indulgent in the likes of food, material objects and sex. Each and every one of the aritst’s works makes a point to disgust and repel the viewer, yet each is also outfitted in baby pink and glossy pearls. To sum up the overall theme […]

Füge Demirok writes short poem-like inscriptions next to the works in her 2007 catalog. The third poem, placed next to an image of The Seal, reads, “Sealed, / From past eternity to eternity, / Can it be disregarded? / Not caring, not minding…” It doesn’t seem like the most ambitious request for attention on an […]

The Leopold Museum houses perhaps the most important collection of modern Austrian art in the world. It is, as much as it can be, the foremost representation of Austrian art. For example, the Leopold holds the largest Egon Schiele collection in the world and major works by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokschka, Richard Gersti, Albin Egger-Lienz […]

The image Porn Cover-Ups is a reflection about what happens when you delete the human body performing the actual porn or sex acts and leave just a trace of what might have been or is: objects like socks or a ring, the setting with a sofa or a cheap interior. “In this way,” the Swedish […]

Creativity and art-making always have dry spells. Over the last few years, as Zhang Pengye left Harbin for Beijing, and Beijing for New York, his artistic experiments have been quite diverse, and the various periods of his work suggest that the more troubled he is, the more productive. I myself like the prints he made […]

In the delicately beautiful cinema of Don Van Vliet’s canvases you might encounter a deer or rooster or a face coming out of the skies. You might see a word disappear into a blur as it catches onto another word or a devil caught in the sea. Sometimes there are wolves devouring flesh and crosses […]