Author Archives: jolanta

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 […]

Athi-Patra Ruga is a hastily ascending young South African artist whose work comfortably straddles the divides between fashion, performance, and photography. Dressed in a dizzying array of costumes, most notably his “Injibhabha outfit” (one Ruga himself has been known to call his “Afro Womble” attire), Ruga inserts himself, or rather the characters he is playing, […]