Each year the DUMBO Arts Festival seeks to highlight Brooklyn’s commitment to and presence in the arts community by presenting the best in local, national, and international art amid the breathtaking backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline. DUMBO Arts Festival September 27-29, 2013 Multiple Locations DUMBO, Brooklyn dumboartsfestival.com

Kris Scheifele: To call you a multimedia artist is an understatement. Online photos don’t do justice to how intentionally dense your work is, not only in the breadth and depth of your materials and techniques, but also in the way your practice is a kind of cannibalized familial gene pool. For instance, your paintings have […]

Justin Mortimer’s paintings reverberate with a fore-knowledge of Baconian flesh and torpor, and that quintessential Freudian cogency and mass that forever changed the idealistic template of the figure in painting into an expression of a post-God mortality. For both twentieth century artists, a delicious glut of adjectives are to be found, as there are when […]

I was born in Switzerland and have lived in Italy since 1984. In 1999 I started to show my paintings in exhibitions held in Italian cities such as Turin, Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, and several others. According to art critics my works have a strong evocative power, sometimes recalling detached frescos, maybe due to my […]

My art is relational. I have always been fascinated by creation myths and I perceive the universe as having evolved from one catastrophic event. From one point, everything emerges, with the best scenarios trying to rush to completion. I’m drawn to experimenting with combinations of elements, sometimes alluding to air, earth, fire, and water. I […]

My abstract works arise powerful and expressive in thoughtless painting. The perspective of my mosaic-type arrangement of shapes imparts depth to the paintings and draws the eye to the very center of the picture. These windows seem to keep gloomy secrets. kunstmalerei-schulz.de          

With raw materials such as canvas, smoke, and tarnished metal, Subkoff alludes to developments as disparate as Cave Painting and Arte Povera while embedding it in a more contemporary dialectic. Daniel Subkoff August 1 – September 8, 2013 James Fuentes Gallery 55 Delancey Street jamesfuentes.com

A key member of the Pictures Generation, Goldstein is well know for a diverse group of works ranging from films to paintings, sound, installation, and writing. Highly visible as a pinnacle member of the art world throughout the 70’s and 80’s, a large collection of his work is now on view at the Jewish Museum […]

The 20th annual Jornadas de Estudio de la Imagen is the kind of luxurious discussion event that happens regularly here in Madrid. This June, the CA2M (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo) in the town of Móstoles near Madrid, hosted “Speculating on Change”–an enormously wide brief during these very interesting times. Present behind nearly all […]

There’s no mistaking the fact that the art fair germ has taken root in Miami Beach. Ever since the big boys of Basel have come into town, it seems a new fair pops up every year. Here are a few that are newer to the game but from an art viewer perspective are still bringing […]