Gently bobbing among the waves of the Mediterranean, El Miraestels (The Stargazer) is a gigantic human figure staring up at the heavens even as he secretes a strange celestial object behind his back, the sparkling sun radiating from his white body, his legs spread in a V shape for balance atop a “weeble” that wobbles […]

Composer Ryoji Ikeda is known for his performances and installations featuring sound, light, and imagery. Ikeda’s methodology stems from his early work with sound, and is a consistent feature of his compositions. Even with imagery, Ikeda’s fragmented documents are incorporated into his compositions, in the same way that he incorporates elements such as sound and […]

Circulating within our image-burdened world are creative wanderers that ponder the vestiges of mediated fact and control—the crumbling layers of paint on government walls; the memory of a burning, martyred monk; the quasi-morphing of local habit with the experiential remnants of a “European Elsewhere”—these itinerant image makers of Vietnam contort such hidden shifts into concrete […]

The Pleasure’s All Mine developed out of a desire to create a context to explore contemporary artists’ psychological and bodily approach to making. This exhibition grew from discussions between Sarah Gillham and myself searching for deeper unseen similarities that resonate between our works. By expanding this dialogue to include Liane Lang and Rachel Thorlby, we […]

Leah Oates: What is your background, and what was your progression as an artist? Carla Gannis: I’m originally from a small town in North Carolina. In third grade, for a school project, I made a model of New York City (complete with little miniature taxi cabs and people). I suppose even then I knew I […]

Simone Cappa: Please describe your background and how you became an artist. Stephan Gilliam: How I got into photography is really a funny story, at least to me. I took a class in high school, just a short, one-term kind of class. That was before digital so it was all film, which was fun. Going […]

Tchera Niyego: Can you tell me a little more about your book? Ngak’chang Rinpoche: I have always been interested in presenting Vajrayana to artists. There’s an idea about Buddhism in the West, that the most natural crossover is with philosophy, psychology, and science, but that mainly concerns Sutric Buddhism. In terms of Tantric Buddhism, I […]

I am always interested in matters of the future and the past, which determine my artistic style. Things we forget and things we imagine are far more poetic than things of reality. Art is meant to be surreal and at same time, authentic. The direction of time is one of sequence and uninterrupted lapses. I […]

My process for deciding what to paint is very strict. I look for things with a very distinct sense. Things that I didn’t feel I could paint before are now being realized, as I gain more confidence in myself. I did not do this because I wanted to rescue those rough ideas. My attention really […]

The passage of time always accompanies the fast pace of city life. Disposable culture and temptation continue to overwhelm traditional aesthetic values. Material needs and shallow spiritual cravings are granted temporary satisfaction by destruction and reconstruction. Humans are a part of nature, whose survival and existence are twisted through turmoil and stress. Human beings are […]