Leah Oates: Did you know when you were little that you would open a gallery? How did it all come about?Marisa Sage: I’ve only ever really had two career goals. One was to own a gallery, and the other was to be Wonder Woman. Due to a rights issue, I decided it would be best […]

Eve Sussman is an artist whose work incorporates film, video, installation, sculpture, and photography. She is the founder of Rufus Corporation, an ad hoc ensemble of performers, artists, and musicians who have collaborated on motion pictures, and appeared in photographs and video art pieces. Under the direction of Sussman, Rufus Corporation has conceived and produced […]

Masha Sumtsova: So, who are you and what do you do?Jordan Seiler: Good question. My name is Jordan Seiler. I am an artist/activist that reclaims public advertising space for open public communications, be it art or any sort of messages that the public sees fit. I do my own personal projects which are design-oriented projects […]

There are millions of people in New York City, and each has their own agenda. People from stateside and abroad. We really are a melting pot here. It’s so fast-paced—tons and tons of energy from all over. Hoards of people interacting from different places ranging from East New York in Brooklyn to the Upper East […]

Ever since I was little, I have been looking intently at paintings, as well as drawing portraits of myself. My love of art in general, and of painting in particular, has been very strong since my earliest childhood. As a result, I started my art education in the painting department of the Amsterdam Rietveld Academy, […]

French artist François Geffray is no stranger to new challenges. With an extensive array of mediums from digital art to painting, his body of work is vast and varied. It was with this continual sense of pushing himself in new directions that he was drawn to the NY Arts Venice Pavilion, where his works are […]

Today we face a functional cultural industry whose substance is widely corrupted by greed of gain. The immense budgets film and music productions, and their interconnection with merchandising such as computer games and coffee cups, and media presence can hardly be opposed by freelance artists working on their own. I suggest that the advertising industry […]

The inclination toward nothingness is unrelenting. There is a point at which sculpture, from antiquity for example, usually made of stone and left exposed to the elements is reclaimed as material, its social and cultural meaning worn away as representation fades. This is when sculpture is in a pure material state, and exposes a kind […]

Sometimes the planets’ line-up and the exploration of one’s artistic vision are a completely joyful, even miraculous, experience. The series, Arrangement in Green and Black: Portrait of the Photographer’s Mother, had serendipitous beginnings. I found a small print of Whistler’s painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother, at a neighborhood garage […]

Leah Oates: What is your background, and when did you know you would be an artist?Jacob Hashimoto: Most of my childhood was spent in Walla Walla, a small silent town of farms and colleges in dusty southeastern Washington. My parents, who both worked at Whitman College, were always very supportive and interested in the arts, […]