CCTV/Creative Control seeks to question the oppressive mechanisms and discourses implemented in the city through the temporary appropriation of public space. The intervention consists of a video projection displaying an over-sized eye onto the lower surface of the 10-story-height Milton Street water tower in Brooklyn, New York. Still the highest point in the area, until it […]

Peter Acheson: We were in Yellowstone Park a few summers ago with my kids. We get out to Wyoming and my daughter starts getting symptoms of Bell’s palsy. The doctors are like, “We can’t deal with this here, we gotta get her to an ER.” All of a sudden this young RN comes out going, […]

Having been remiss in the article I promised to send you I thought that I would list all of the very good artists that are not overly known in the U.S. that I came across during my brief sojourn in Europe this summer. I will forward this outline as a beginning to what was promised. […]

Emily Auchincloss: You started out making large installations. For an installation artist, space is a primary medium, and you have maintained its primacy in your paintings. Why did you switch to working on canvas? Laura Newman: I had been painting directly on walls and floors and it made me sad to paint everything out at […]

Galerie de Roussan is pleased to present “Study of a Territory”, a group show with Ghislain Amar, Nastassia Conquet, Pablo Cavero, and Hannah Wade. Conceived and curated by Thomas Arsac, this exhibition presents four young artists whose practice has been inspired by traveling abroad to live in a new territory. First of all there is […]

Henri Michaux (1899-1984) enjoys the best kind of posterity. On a small street in Paris – all of one block long – crowded with handsome galleries showing the fearsome, minutely crafted totems of Africa and Oceania, his paintings draw a steady stream of people who look at them not because they want to buy an […]

The starting point of art is the resistance of death and time. Artists pursue possibilities to overcome and transcend the limitation of time in their works. Hyong Nam Ahn’s installation, “Fantastic Lonely- Heart,” implies the search for the limitation of time. This work is a simply composed sculpture and a kind of site-specific installation using […]

  Darkness is never absolute; there is always a beam of light that illuminates the depths. Stefanie Gutheil fills her murky vision with distorted imaginative images of creatures culled from her unconscious that in time constitute the genesis of fresh ideas, turbulent progenitors of creative evolution. The artist establishes baroque tableaux of dream-like hybrids that […]

  Construction can elicit a diverse array of reactions. For some, it’s the beginning of an exciting business venture. For others, it’s the dystopian spawn of our commercialism-crazed society. For most, it’s just head-pounding racket. But for Nicola Lopez, it’s a vibrant and stimulating muse. “It’s absolutely beautiful and magical, yet totally overwhelming and completely […]

Artist self-portraits have historically fascinated the public eye as they have become artists’ most personal and intimate expressions, but this trend has taken a particularly big turn in the past two decades among contemporary artists. As a young art student in the mid 1980s, I remember developing an obsession with the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo […]