As it is difficult for me to try to describe even the next sculpture that I will do, so is it a big challenge to try to talk about what I will do for shows at the end of the year. Part of the reason is that my sculptures develop slowly. I am very intuitive […]

My work explores the connections between technology and semantics, delving into the boundless flux among natural and programming language. The comprehension of this duet led me to develop methods and machines in the form of software-based installations, Internet art projects, video games, and other computer/digital media, addressing social, political, and philosophical issues. Yucef Merhi My […]

In the end my work is always about me. I feel that women go through many more obstacles than men to prove their point or get their voices heard. The women from cultures that have telenovelas (soap operas) are seen as perfect receptors—almost flower vases—for tons of tragedy. Being from Venezuela, this common form of […]

Catherine Y. Hsieh: You said in the film Good Times Will Never Be the Same that you were afraid of your girlfriend Kirsten’s fear of how her family would perceive you. Then what prompted you to involve her and her family in the project?Brock Enright: Well, first our plan was to go away for a […]

Making art, to me, is a personal way of studying the world. The act of studying moves me closer to the world so that I don’t feel left out or disconnected. I relate myself to both the conceptual and the physical world, through series of examining and researching processes and intervening acts. Teng Chao-Ming   […]

Michael Linares’ recent exhibition Found & Lost at Museum of Contemporary Art Puerto Rico highlights the alternately political, prosaic, spiritual, and flamboyant methods by which life is experienced and observed. The exhibition employs Linares’ own fluency in multifarious forms of discourse—from sculpture, to photography and video. Suzie Walshe on Michael Lineares   Michael Linares’ recent […]

Consumerism, in the world of Brian Ulrich, is a tornado of sorts. His photographs, exhibited at the Julie Saul Gallery, depict the space of consumerism after the consumer has consumed and departed. The backroom of a thrift store is full of discarded Nike sneakers, piled one upon the other, inelegant and dead. Heather Clarke   […]

In Genesis, organized by HUMA3 (www.huma3.com) at the Ai Miracoli exhibition space in Venice, Argentinean abstract artist, Mario Zirardini, takes us back to our very beginnings, before written laws, received wisdom, and force of habit, all but shackled our individual creativity and freedom of expression. as.  Ed Rubin   In Genesis, organized by HUMA3 (www.huma3.com) […]

Calligraphy has always been a combination of thing and image, meaning and representation. Whatever the starting point of the text for my drawings might be, I do not expect any specific form or representation to emerge. Wai Pong-Yu Calligraphy has always been a combination of thing and image, meaning and representation. Whatever the starting point […]

Representing the object and its re-use has marked important moments of modern and contemporary art from the historical avant-gardes to our days. By recontextualizing or subverting the object, artists have pushed the conventions of art and emphasized the ambiguity of the representation. Monica Piccioni   Representing the object and its re-use has marked important moments […]