Wangechi Mutu’s drawings couple collaged parts of idealized women clipped from fashion magazines with drawn and ink-soaked passages. They are rooted in the history of Kenyan traditional storytelling and postcolonial horror stories. Subtly and painfully twisted images reference traditionally-clad African women. As a process of mutation is recognized through careful scrutiny, the images prove hard […]

In my artwork, I create a narrative from collective memory that suggests different versions of reality. Using as a foundation the prevailing cross-cultural and hybrid identity so common to those who live in urban America, I try to create a certain aesthetic that unites opposites in a socio-political context that relates to the New World […]

A good reason to make the pilgrimage to our nation’s capitol is to see this exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Especially the three-plus-minute Warhol Screen Test made in 1966; the circumstances were really fantastic. Andy Warhol brought his 16mm camera on a tripod and a coterie including an Italian model, who was instructed to […]

Of Basque ancestry, José Manuel Ciria was born in Manchester, England in 1960, but moved to Spain as a child, where he grew up. In 2005, he moved from Madrid to New York, where is currently based. Today he is an internationally renowned painter, celebrated for both his lyrical abstractions and figurative works. Dubbed “a […]

A guest at an artist residency in Brussels to perform work on his own body, A Muslim in Brussels, Hicham Benohoud sees his project as thwarted. Free from the censorship of his native Morocco, Benohoud abandoned his original plan because of a negative reaction. Benohoud is now focusing on his own portrait. From there came […]

A graduate of Oxford University and the Royal College of Art, London, I undertook scholarships in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Rome, before settling in Melbourne, Australia, in 2002. I mainly work with found-object-based sculpture, installation, digital animation and Web-derived imagery. My recent work addresses the representation of the desired, transcultural and increasingly virtual ideal […]

Studies has been elaborated for Le Mois de la Photo in Paris in 2002, and was presented in parallel of another series of seven pictures of Martin Margela’s clothes. The outfits were compressed between two pieces of glass and shot by transparency. The subject of that year was “fashion.” The aim of this story was […]

With braided rope anchored to opposing walls of the gallery, Mimmo Roselli transforms the OK Harris Gallery into a dynamic theater of mismatched vanishing points. Moving under and around the taut hemp rigging, visitors must interact with this work, which effectively divides and subdivides the space. Triangulated spaces emerge between strands of rope, creating many […]

I have regularly appeared in my work from my earliest photographic projects. In regards to this recurring theme art critics have a tendency to hold a view diametrically opposed to mine. I think that my self-portraits shouldn’t be judged separately, but as part of my whole practice. I enjoy posing in front of the camera; […]

On April 18th, 2009 I would turn 34; I live and work in Milan, Italy. In my pictures I deal with eroticism. I often perform my fantasies or situations from my imagination. The characters you find in my photos are imaginary. I do not make portraits; the models become actors of a personal fantasy. Having […]