I was born in 1973 in Örnsköldsvik, a town located in the northern region of Sweden. Because of my disengagement with school, I was educated as a welder, but began studying photography in 1999 when I attended a Swedish university in Gamleby, a school where I was matriculated for three years. Currently, I live and […]

Somehow I can just picture Marie-Josie Vielot trolling an endlessly vast shoreline in search of her favorite medium. In the context of her prolific career, the artist apparently never tires in her search for the perfect seashell to complete her intricate creations. While most artists take up as their medium such immediately available, store-bought media […]

In June of 2005, upon receiving a curatorial prize at the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, I took advantage of my 15 minutes of fame in Slovenian lands in order to propose a show of Cuban art to Aleksander Bassin, director of the Mestna Galerija, or the City Museum. He accepted my proposal, and we […]

In their photographic work, designers Bitten Stetter and Gulliver Theis effortlessly reflect the fact that our society is replete with fashion by presenting the viewer with a fast-paced world based around the idea of its transience. Playing with concupiscence and sensuality in their photographic artwork, flesh acts as a metaphor that turns the inside out […]

Sanjie is a composite artwork created with three methods—oil painting, photograph and video. The subject is a young Chinese girl wearing a red scarf (the symbol of a member of Young Pioneer Group) and playing the roles of the 13 figures of da Vinci’s Last Supper. It took me nearly a year to complete the […]

I am always trying to observe myself through the leftovers on my plate, the records of my MSN chats, the strands of hair and flakes of skin on my sheets, my health card, my supermarket receipts, my nightly dreams and etc. These things all prove that I exist and that I have been there. From […]

My parents divorced when I was seven; it was a passionless affair that resulted in two distinctly different households thousands of miles apart. My mother stayed in my hometown of Akron, Ohio, so that I could continue my education at John F. Kennedy Middle School. She worked as a bookkeeper for a chain of restaurants […]

I remember my first time online well. It was my first year living in the United States and an acquaintance who was ordered to keep me entertained for a couple of hours sat me in front of a library computer, opened a browser window for me and told me to look up something… anything? I […]

The division of the soul from the body is an issue that has concerned great thinkers throughout the history of mankind. The understanding of soul, according to Plato, concerned an eternal system of pure and real knowledge with the potential of merging with the absolute, divine good. The body was a mistake, an obsolete machine […]

Sarah Dotts: Tell us about growing up and working as an artist in Dallas. What is the art scene like in Dallas and Forth Worth? Can you discuss some of the galleries, groups and curators who support contemporary art there? Jason Roskey: Well, I grew up south of Fort Worth, which is a world very […]