As a contemporary painter, Shelley Reed is in part a bricoleur. Her imagery is borrowed from art historical sources, sometimes wholesale, sometimes from details of other paintings, and sometimes cobbled together and re-contextualized. Reed deftly melds aspects of painting, theater, and cinema to create complex narratives rich with beauty, drenched in mystery, and fraught with […]

Alex Mirutziu is a Romanian artist whose work cuts across multiple domains, including conceptual writing, performance, photography, and video installations. His work endows social processes with ephemeral emergence as the man constructs in an attempt to reconfigure the relation between information and form, psychophysical language and content, challenging origins and meaning. After the disturbing solo […]

The Helpmeat series of drawings began, absurdly enough, with the reading of a line from Genesis, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helpmate.” The synonym “helpmeet” didn’t exist until a slow series of errors of translation occurred (the first in the King James Bible, and the […]

Painting acrylic portals, as he calls them, Michal Balazik plays the artistic tour guide to new worlds, new realities, or perhaps this reality viewed in a different light. Building layer upon layer of paint this Slovakian artist brings us a view of nature that is not one to understand, but one to loose yourself in. […]

My work acts as a conduit to the unconscious. Parts of it are anatomical, botanical, animal, and mechanical. I rework the “guts” of my characters and provide an interplay of metaphors. Based on simple, intimate and immediate means, I attempt to interweave the internal and external, the physical and metaphysical, the individual and collective. Often […]

There are a lot of points of entry to the multifaceted world of Mark Bloch, so you will have to decide for yourself where to begin. An artist of the future, Bloch emerged from underground this spring with a one-man show at the Emily Harvey Foundation that was not too difficult to get into. His […]

I’m a cantankerous, semi-agoraphobic painter who has lived in New Orleans for the last 11.5 years. I grew up in Vermont and California, and developed my own cryptic drawing style in class instead of taking notes. I became a professional artist when I moved here, taunted into painting proper pictures in the animist, chaotic atmosphere […]

“Twenty-one 70% dark chocolate Valentine hearts melt into a pan to become icing for a chocolate-layered cake. Tibetan wool socks from Tibet ruined by standing in the kitchen, they were gassed not washed in woolite.” Out at the park the deaf man gets a kick, the deaf man waits his turn to play a pickup […]

For artist David Kastner, content is more important than technique. The Florida-based multimedia artist aims to move beyond the merely technical to get at an understanding of how the materials he engages with actually work, exploiting their properties to get at what he is most interested in: meaning, ideas, and concepts. Ultimately, Kastner says, “Throughout […]

Leah Oates: Please describe how you became an artist and specifically a photographer, and what your family background is.Cara Phillips: My journey to photography was a little more complex than many people who come out of MFA programs. I moved to New York in my early twenties, and spent several years working in luxury department […]