Having weathered what appears to be the deep end of the economic downturn, Chelsea is trying its best to dig its fingernails to into that crusty upper-layer NY Art scene status. It just so happens that hot young artists, along with those with more refined sensibilities still prefer to be shown in their large, raw, […]

Hundreds of thousands of visitors have accepted the late designer’s invitation, descending on the Metropolitan Museum in flocks to see “Savage Beauty,” a multi-media exhibition of McQueen’s couture curated by Andrew Bolton of the Museum’s Costume Institute. With the exhibit half over and visitors still patiently waiting hours upon hours for entry, the Museum announced […]

Yang Jiechang’s artistic path is both exemplary of the globalization of issues in contemporary culture and part of the long-term heritage of the extraterritoriality of art and the destiny of artists. Born in a region of southern China strongly marked by poverty and a nomadic lifestyle, he opted very early for art as a personal […]

I was born in 1980 in Riga, Latvia – a small country of just 2 or so million inhabitants, in the North of Europe – which was at that time under Soviet occupation. Both of my parents were computing device engineers, trained to operate strange ancient computers in a size of a room, in Soviet […]

Dylan Sisson is an internationally recognized toy designer, cartoonist, and painter. Dylan is the creator of the collectable vinyl toy, Idle Hands, who appears as a special guest in Yipe 5. He’s also created numerous custom vinyls, illustrations, and paintings that have been shown in galleries around the world, and his independent animated shorts have won several […]

Animals, insects, fish, and toys… These things used to be close to me when I was a child. I like to take these in my design. Maybe it is because my childhood memory is vivid, or I am still childish. I love long tentacle-like shapes with stripes or dappled patterns, such as octopus tentacles and […]

I make drawings and paintings that are based on my daily experience in urban spaces – my walk to work, the skyline seen from my apartment, the errands run throughout the week. I keep a camera on me all the time, and throughout the day, I document where I am. Each photograph is quite ordinary, […]

My paintings and drawings juxtapose elements of abstract expressionism and classical figuration. During my training at the California College of Arts and Crafts, I began to create collage drawings that layered disparate images on top of one another; I now use oil paint in a similar way, starting with an abstract background and then adding […]

Craig “Skibs” Barker grew up in Southern California during the early 80’s and the explosions of both punk rock and surfing culture. With a healthy dose of punk flyers, album covers, and surfing magazines buzzing through his head, Craig began making flyers and t-shirts for his friends and his own punk bands. Fast-forward to today; […]

Andy Kehoe was the son of a sea merchant that was killed by pirates when he was just three years old. His father barely had time to throw his son overboard before the cargo ship that usually carried pickles and kittens to Spain, carried the burning corpses of his father and all his closest friends […]