Entering the Anderson Gallery to view Gerald Donato’s show, “Reinventing the Game,” I realized that, even though I have known him for six or seven years, I had not seen much of his work. Thus, I came to this show with an undisturbed palette. As I walked from room to room, I was continually blown […]

Upon stepping foot into the NY Arts Beijing Space during artist Olle Jonsson’s solo show at the work-in-progress space/studio this spring, the artists’ “Bock Pet” series immediately catches the attention—if not for the bronze series’ monumentality, then for the adept craftsmanship and intricate mythological basis for the five sculptural works. This masterful accomplishment in scrap […]

Armenian-born, Los-Angeles-based artist Vera Arutyunyan combines primary colors and an aggressive brushstroke style toward a decidedly contemporary version of Abstract Expressionism. Although the masters of the 50s like Pollock and de Kooning created a similar aesthetic 40 years prior, Vera’s emotionally charged paintings appear forever in the moment. The artist’s vigorous and defined brushstrokes are […]

Desde que Tarzán entrara en Nueva York a lomos de un elefante, nadie más se había atrevido a hacerlo. Carles Albert Casanova (Valencia, 1949) lo hace ahora en la Broadway Gallery a través de ColorElefante, la sala que regenta en Valencia (España). Y lo hace con una serie de obras cuyo título no hace sino […]

Song Dong has been making art for over ten years now. Ever since his work Another Lesson, Do You Want to Play with Me?, Song Dong has been actively participating in the contemporary art movement in China. In this work integrating installation, video, painting and performance, Song Dong combined his creative abilities while also fully […]

Korean by birth, Korean-American by circumstance, Lee resides in a conceptual space between Korea and America. Her art is “diaristic,” she says, a mode she adopted in an attempt to nurture herself when she did not have a nurturer available. Her autobiography, however, is the element that ultimately infiltrates her seemingly reductive work. This narrative […]

You might be surprised to find French artist Dominique Labauvie exhibiting in Tampa. After all, the Strasbourg native has been firmly established—with many solo and group shows and public commissions—for nearly 30 years in his home country and throughout Europe, where he is known for metal sculptures, prints and drawings of his graceful, abstract figures. […]

Nicola Parente creates expressive abstract paintings from his studio in Houston, Texas. Born in Italy, he draws from a rich Italian heritage and a deep well of cross-cultural experiences to bring his art to life. Working in a variety of media and formats, Parente engages the viewer in dialogues regarding the universal phenomenon of human […]

If you’re making contemporary music, it doesn’t matter how big you are, you can’t not have a Myspace page. That the internet has profoundly changed the way music is made today is so evident that it’s almost embarrassing to state it. The availability of a huge archive of content online and cheap editing software, along […]

Batteries, pasta, cables, Q-tips, pencils, chopsticks, gum, nails, birth control pills, towels, ribbons, toothpicks, cans, candy, razors, straws—the list of materials in a Sarah Sze installation would take up most of this article. Sze chooses materials that are all variations on the same theme—the flotsam and jetsam of a modern capitalist lifestyle. They are the […]