One of my strengths as an artist is my ability to look at the world around me and find a strange beauty in things overlooked by most people. I can draw inspiration equally from the close-up character lines on a human face and a well-designed logo or ad. It is the culmination of these many […]

Working across the disciplines of art, craft and design, “Material Overtures,” set within a larger Harbourfront Centre programme entitled “Desire,” exhibits a playful skepticism directed towards an inheritance of exhibition practice that suggests that the very function of aesthetic objects is contemplation and consumption. Referencing Harbourfront Centre’s craft studios where, from a distance, the public […]

Si antaño el arte de la pintura se consagró como registro de la realidad externa, si luego fue asumida cual interpretación subjetiva del ser humano que la habitaba –caso del retrato-, y si, posteriormente y hasta hoy, se ha convertido en herramienta para profundizar en los mundos íntimos –dialécticos, emocionales, psíquicos-, es porque el uso […]

Communication and interactivity play an important role in my work. Since I am coming from a marginal culture, Cantonese culture, and since I currently also have a marginal position; I have a German passport, but I am living in Paris and traveling everywhere, communication and interactivity have become a kind of habit for me. Further, […]

Years ago, an artist friend of mine from Los Angeles, Ming Hsu, was preparing to visit China. He had family there, a relative who taught in a university and, as a visual artist and scriptwriter, China promised a great landscape and vocabulary for his work. Today, he lives and works in Beijing, writing film, skateboarding, […]

The idea of “The Joker" was open to discussion recently at the Broadway Gallery in Soho. Participating artists explored this flexible and rich notion of what the ominous joke might be. The group exhibition, co-curated by Basak Malone and Tchera Niyego, found its inspiration in a bit-story by the grandfather of existentialism—Danish philospher Kierkegaard, and […]

For six and a half years, TAG art gallery has been offering Music City a taste of what’s going on in the art world at large. TAG quickly made its mark as the place to go for contemporary art in Nashville, whether it’s in terms of collecting or just in terms of viewing. Since moving […]

One of the newest additions to the growing Nashville art scene is tucked into in a 364 square foot space on the second floor of the historic Arcade Building in downtown Nashville. SQFT Gallery is owned and operated by Rhode Island School of Design graduate, and local Nashvillian, Aaron Durnin. Durnin is a furniture designer […]

Reuben Paterson is a New Zealand artist of Maori descent. A recent studio resident at the International Curatorial Studio in New York, Paterson has spent the past years working in America and the European cities of Athens, Pescara and London.  Primarily a painter, Paterson has become widely known for his re-interpretations of Maori iconography, which […]

The big story is this: you have a desire, whether it is something you should have or something you shouldn’t and you chase your desire, but to attain it, you must overcome who you are; you must either grow past your limitations, or find out what your true limitations are. When you have overcome—preferably a […]