Author Archives: jolanta

“How can a person live in a photograph?” Capturing a person (clothes, environment, social codes) is not the aim, capturing a human being is. The nude is the path to something more primitive, more deep, more simple. In these photographs, nudity is part of a preparatory process: it takes away the reality of the person, […]

Leah Oates: You have a background as an artist and opened Dam Stuhltrager with several other artists.Leah Stuhltrager: Actually two artists. My partner Cristobal Dam and myself started the gallery. Cris and I met while studying art at Parsons. When rent on our mousey Lower East Side apartment (a crawlspace actually) soared as fashion boutiques […]

B. Wurtz’s work deals with the mundane incidents of daily existence. In his own words: “Basic things, the kinds of things I use in my art, were invented by humans and I find that fascinating. The act of seeing the extraordinary in an ordinary object makes me feel connected to the universe in general, and […]

My work is a personal, passionate response to the human condition; it explores fantasies, feminism, sexuality and gender, notions of desire; both sexual and cerebral—life in all of its turbulence, tears, confusion and sometimes even playfulness. It is a response to thoughts, both in memory and on an everyday basis, improvised through the drawn image […]

The impact and dynamism of Rodolpho Parigi’s paintings sprout from many hours of labour in a small and quaint studio in São Paulo, to the sound of the White Stripes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fuelled by hearty, home-cooked Italian platters. It couldn’t be any other way, these powerful and at times overwhelming works could […]

On a weekday afternoon in January, Cynthia von Buhler is sitting in the window of Exit Art filling small plastic balls with her own menstrual blood. “It looks like candy!” she exclaims of the fluid, which is indeed a gorgeous crimson. The Massachusetts-bred artist is stocking her CYNTH-O-MATIC vending machine with bodily samples (pubic hair, […]

When viewing Esao’s work, one immediately longs to get another glimpse of his paintings. This kind of art—work that keeps you coming back for more—is what great art is all about. The young, talented artist has marked himself as one of the most unique and talented artists that New York has to offer. I spoke […]

Natalia Fabia reveals the world behind closed doors. Her work possesses a vibrancy that is erotic and enticing in nature, while maintaining a delicate semblance of charm and femininity that lends itself to an endearing quality. The art of Natalia Fabia is academic and painterly, yet new-age and narrative. She collages many things into her […]

For those familiar with the S&M self-portraiture and photos of trans-gendered subjects she produced during the early 90s, Catherine Opie’s show, “American Cities,” on view at Barbara Gladstone might come as a surprise. Prominently featured in high-profile exhibitions dealing with queer culture such as the Guggenheim’s “Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance […]