The exhibition “Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology and Contemporary Art” recently considered the current role of the senses in a time of transition—when it might be possible for technological advances in digital smell, haptic devices and embodied computing to begin to challenge vision’s long-held dominance over the other senses. The artists in “Sensorium” considered the ability […]

My illustration of this beautiful girl with a knife was created when DIF Magazine asked me to make an Illustration to go along with the psychological test: "How crazy are you.” Before I created this piece, I sat in front of a mirror and tried to take a pose that most clearly expressed craziness for […]

The Maccarone Gallery, which was closed for a year, reopened on Greenwich Street in a cavernous space with an uninspired exhibition by the German conceptual artist, Christian Jankowski. Maccarone garnered her reputation as an underground gallery by showing above ground social realism with the enthusiastic support of the Village Voice art critic, Jerry Saltz. The […]

The title of this exhibit organized by the British Council and the Capital Museum should be, “Cultural Détente in an Age of Delicate Official Cross Cultural Exchange.” To be fair, the show’s organizers were caught between a rock and a hard place—offending official sensibility would have resulted in no show at all, so the result […]

At the glass façade of one of the more exposed, storefront-like white spaces in Chelsea, springtime gallery goers found themselves window shopping a colorful collage of rare and eclectic examples of early 90s cassette tapes, and right alongside a decent number of felt warrior characters reminiscent of Jim Henson’s The Labyrinth or of the Nickelodeon […]

I came to this art thing pretty late in life. Even though I have been drawing since I could hold a pencil, somehow I ended up in corporate America for 15 years bouncing from cubicle job to cubicle job. I was fast tracked into the typical American life: job, marriage, kids and a picket fence. […]

Whitney May: Your latest body of work was recently on view at Art Agents Gallery in Hamburg under the (appropriate) exhibition heading “Hover.” How does this architectural and highly intricate portion of your sculptural oeuvre compare to the rest? Do you consider this sculptural style new or old news? Eric Eley: My work has always […]

If Clement Greenberg wanted flatness, artist Jared Lindsay Clark has accomplished it. The problem is that he is building that flatness from kitsch. Jared Lindsay Clark’s show at ADA Gallery in Richmond, then, is one of contradiction and subtlety. This is not quite painting, but it is about painting. It is not quite sculpture, but […]

Appealing to the senses and evoking emotional states, wonder is the principal effect that the objects that I make incite. My work consists of three interrelated ventures: floral relief carvings in wax, floral paper cut-outs and drawings of exotic fowl. The exotic fowl series, in its earliest stages, was exclusively of cocks and cockerels, but […]

Los Angeles-based artist Kirsten Stoltmann recognizes the suburbs as ground for major pathological unrest, and her new exhibition at Allston Skirt Gallery, “Rough Bush: Artifacts and Heirlooms,” takes as its icon the tumbling tumbleweed—seen through Stoltmann’s eyes as a roving plant making its way through the isolated desert and into the decorum of the suburban […]