Acknowledged as one of the most highly regarded artists in South Africa, Jane Alexander is also one of the most reticent, taking the position that her work must make its own statement. Alexander is an artist whose talent was clearly apparent from the start. Her piece Butcher Boys is the most popular contemporary piece in […]

A proclivity for contradiction is evident in Steven Foy’s recent solo exhibition, The Arrangement Series, at the Broadway Gallery. A minimalist whose economic use of geometric shapes elicits a vocabulary of the nuance, a brilliant colorist with a penchant for discreet shades of gray, an abstract painter whose subject matter is the failure of abstraction, […]

I like to think of my recent work as a Frankenstein-like stepchild of the Hudson River School. Thomas Cole and his companions used to hike the Catskills with sketchbook in hand returning home to assemble landscapes of the sublime. I lug a backpack full of expensive technology to capture fragments of nature, and then sit […]

The “landscape” is a metaphor. The work is in progress, and it points to a task that is never finished. There are many layers of meaning and complexity in The Painter’s Studio. Courbet’s vision of the world shows itself twice over, with a small painting in progress within a large painting, also a work in […]

Broadway Gallery recently presented Wappen Field: Work in Progress by sculptor Michelle Jaffé. At this evolutionary stage of its development, the installation has six suspended chrome plated steel cutaway helmets with speakers in the top of each providing sound. The empty space below each helmet implies where a body would be. Taken as a whole, […]

Over the past few decades, philosophy has become manifested in art. The project Personal Structures: Time—Space—Existence takes this development as its point of departure, and aims to present contemporary artists’ perspectives on the concepts of time, space, and existence. For Personal Structures, Max Cole gave an interview about her work. The paintings of Max Cole […]

My work is fundamentally based on drawing, but this is reinvented through large-scale site-responsive installations, interventions, drawings, and animations. All my work intends to sketch morphing and imaginary environments. For me, the ability to transform is key, and installation allows spaces to become immersive, fragile environments into which the audience can enter. I want the […]

Last summer was huge for Beijing because of the Olympics. Coinciding with the world-famous athletic competitions was Ludus, a group exhibition of several international artists, at NY Arts Beijing Space. The group exhibition showcased works by Renée Breig, Angela Earley, Robert Freimark, Stephen Gostt, Tove Hellerud, Malgorzata Paryzinska, Margareta Petré, Julien Vonier, and Katherine Wood. […]

There is a basic animal need to ascertain and define what is going on within a space. My work exploits this by setting up scenarios for experiences without trying to control the end experience. My work tests the limits of human perception and cognition, catalyzing curiosity for mixed feelings of doubt and unease. I am […]

area3 is a group of artists, designers, programmers, and musicians founded in Barcelona in 1999. It is a craft studio in which research, development, and experimentation are the basis for high-quality projects of technology, music, or graphic design. With the exhibition in NY Arts Beijing, area3 celebrates its tenth anniversary. The discursive axis from which […]