My work explores an ongoing interest in how painting can negotiate a position vis-à-vis photography and a state of increasing technological mediation. This project has often pushed my practice into more interdisciplinary pursuits, into art historical and photographic research as well as into broader explorations of visuality. And though each body of work can often […]

Narcissister is a multi media performance project that has been the primary focus of my artistic production for the past three years. The Narcissister persona brings humor and spectacle to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. I integrate performance (including elaborate costumes and sculptural props), video, photography, and collage to establish Narcissister as an […]

Still Moving was a dance performance commissioned by the Metropolitan Still Moving was a dance performance commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City specifically for the Charles Engelhard Court of the American Wing of the museum. Choreographed by Shen Wei, who also choreographed the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, […]

The title of George Steinmetz’s solo exhibition at Anastasia Photo, “Migrations,” does and yet does not fully express the photographs on view. On the surface, the prints do indeed depict moments of animals in migration, but they are also captions of a way of life. Establishments outside our own spheres that we easily forget exist […]

Partners-in-crime (and in art) Gabriel Cohen and Jolie Signorile have become known for their functional artworks under their design venture, Fredericks & Mae. From golden bocce balls to arrows intricately formed with thread and feathers, the dynamic duo’s pieces bring the aesthetic and fascinating into the home. Their pieces, Idols for Home Use, a series […]

Epyllion is an incorporation of puppetry, ritual, gesture, and song to create a world that taps into the innate intelligence of the body. An epyllion is a short epic poem of erotic and mythological content, a story of old that bring us to a better understanding of Eros. Traditionally, audiences attend the performance of an […]

Kate Meng Brassel: What was the immediate context of your creation of 3 Men in 2007? Ian Warren: After finishing undergrad in Massachusetts, I spent a year moving all over the country: from NYC to Utah, California, and Mexico. Somehow I ended up settling in the unlikely state of Ohio. During that period, I made […]

For years now, Farrell Brickhouse has been towing the line between abstraction and figuration on an intimate scale; creating paintings that conjure up a plethora of associations from romantic to violent all imbued with a wonderfully strange light. For Brickhouse, this year proves especially busy, having participated in Scope Fair earlier this year and now […]

I am interested in what happens to traumatizing or confounding images when they are removed from their original place in cultural memory. My work investigates visual nuances that occur when these images are translated into a mass-media product, stripped of their inherent meaning, and re-presented in a new context, with an entirely disguised origin. By […]

My work deals with the condition of woman in contemporary society, questioning her obsessions with body image, beauty, sexuality and aging. With a minimalist approach—and mostly conceptually based pieces—I use different media such as installations, video-performance, embroidery, and objects. “Although few women will reach society’s beauty ideals, many will sculpt their bodies as needed: put […]