Becca Durnin is interested in creating nonsensical narratives that are at once precious and over-the-top, personal and monumental, beautiful and grotesque. Her drawings may include elements of human anatomy, sullen, scantily-clad women, or decadent, overly-ornate interiors.  While they may vary in subject matter and size—some are ten feet by ten feet, others are drawn on […]

Whitney May: You were a toymaker and an industrial designer before you became a full-time artist.  In what ways have your previous pursuits shaped your paint- and ink-filled oeuvre so far?Stella Im Hultberg: I don’t know if there is any direct influence from my having been a product designer to be found in what I […]

The Art House Gallery & Studio is unique to Nashville as it is the only gallery focused solely on the work of local artists. While the definition the Art House assigns to “local” is a broad one—John Hung Ha, one of its top-selling artists, currently lives in Brooklyn, but grew up in Nashville—the Art House […]

The KKK is after John Sims. In September of 2004, Sims installed his Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag at the Gettysburg College and the Mystic Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had a bit to say about his redefinition of this weighted symbol of the South and slavery. Why were the sheetheads so […]

In talking about artists who turn their life into art, one has to mention Richard Foreman’s new mixed media play WAKE UP MR. SLEEPY! YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND IS DEAD! purports to be a response to a world in which visionary sages and poets are replaced by specialists who make platitudes out of the immediately observable. […]

In talking about artists who turn their life into art, one has to mention Carmen Einfinger as a primary representative of our day. Without any artificial attitude, Carmen Einfinger transforms every aspect of her everyday life into an art piece: her clothes, her furniture, her whole Soho loft, everything she deals with gets that colorful, […]

“The only task left is to consider how I received this idea. For I did not get it through the senses, nor has it ever appeared to me unexpectedly, as the ideas of sensible objects are wont to do, when these objects are presented or seem to be presented to my external organs, nor is […]

There is a cultural shift happening right now. I can sense it. Just listen to the radio. There’s more R + B, Hip Hop is mixing with other forms and Indie Rock is pop. There is a general mining of post war 20th century culture going on. But, this is not your standard retro thing, […]

This past fall in London, the commercial gallery Riflemaker and the peripatetic organization, Centre of Attention—far from similar art world denizens—mounted concurrent exhibitions based on the city’s obsolete, avant-garde spaces. Matrices of alternative sociality and radical aesthetics driven by malaise with art world commercialism and an often unchecked idealism, these spaces offered significant challenges to […]

Swoon, David Ellis and Faile, a three-person art collective, all take their cue from the street. Well renowned individually, their show, “The Burning House,” will provide a high concentration of talent in collaborations as well as in the individual works on display. Swoon’s intricate paper cutouts have been covering the streets of New York for […]