Zhou Jun likes to speak lightly of his own abilities, but his arresting images of the new China are the work of a sophisticated artist and a master of the photographic craft. The Nanjing-based photographer came to Beijing in 1995 as an Artist in Residence at Red Gate Gallery. He found a city being transformed […]

The majority of my works are allegorical narrative paintings. After completing my education at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, I wanted to continue my explorations into painting and process, and the inherent narrative quality of painting is what continues to lure me. I found that this quality gave me a way to […]

Anoush Abrar and Aimée Hoving met as photography students at the University of Art in Lausanne, Switzerland. Anoush is from Iran and Aimée is Dutch, and the two began working together as a team in 2003 after having finished art school. Currently, they both live in Switzerland. What brought the two together was an interest […]

Leah Oates: When did you know you where an artist? I read that you began taking photographs fairly young. Did you know you were an artist then, and how has your work changed since that time? Elinor Carucci: I was 15 when I took my father’s camera and started to photograph my mother. I have […]

Drawing on the intrinsic qualities of the medium, my photographic work aims to create an aesthetic of the still that encloses as much of the concreteness of the everyday as it does the enigmatic. Through a staging or re-directing of the real, I deploy photography as a meditative and contemplative act, reflecting on transparency, light, […]

AJ Fosik’s eclectic handmade and intricately designed wood animal sculptures and paintings, combined with cryptic symbols, intrigue and provoke. Fosik creates an experience that at first glance evokes a questioning of familiar concepts and then pushes the viewer to look and think deeper. Inspired by subversive cultural influences that shift complacency, he creates pieces that […]

Praxis Studio’s exhibit "Dreams and Possibilities" opened in spring 2007 at The Whitney Altria in NYC. Leah Oates: Your show at The Whitney Altria draws people into a virtual environment that opens up dreams and possibilities for each individual. You use a film set and a movie environment where participants can pretend to be someone […]

I’ll talk about my attitude in using references, and then my “head” paintings, which can be perceived as quite different to my regular work. When you’re using pop imagery as a source, like I often do, I think it’s important to obtain ownership over the image in some way. By that I mean you have […]

The other night I had a long discussion with an artist friend of mine about drawing, which got started thanks to my ceaseless weeping over technical difficulties. I had spent a whole day figuring out a way to represent cellulite on a woman’s legs. I had tried all possible techniques from line to shading, but […]

Gae Savannah: Can you talk about the “Waterways” project that you organized at the Venice Biennial in 2005? Renée Vara: The “Waterways” project was a public collective action—a nostalgic and utopian intervention that literally functioned as a social sculpture, and which cut the physical space of the Venetian landscape by moving through the canals. The […]