Before making Heartfelt Wishes, I experimenting with sounds, like simulation of voices in the environment. Later I thought of imitating the sound of a heartbeat with my own voice, and then I asked a group of people to imitate the sound made by the person before them. This is how the piece was completed. Heartfelt […]

Wang Guang-Yi is one of the more renowned contemporary Chinese artists. His first major solo exhibition Cold War Aesthetics is on view until March 1 at the Louise Blouin Institute, U.K. The exhibition is part of the Louise Blouin Institute’s Culture Beyond Borders series, aimed at encouraging cultural dialogue. This ambitious show by Wang is […]

Columbus artist Curtis Goldstein’s creative fingerprint is found literally all over the city, from signature murals lining the bustling arts district, the Short North, to corporate collections displayed along the hallways of downtown high-rises and suburban golf clubs. Goldstein’s 45-by-60-foot mural recreating George Bellows’ Cliff Dwellers is one of the initial sites heading into the […]

Many artists are inspired by the chaos in their daily routines. But perhaps few experience the same type of daily bedlam as Columbus ceramicist Janis Mars Wunderlich. Wunderlich admits she’s lucky to get more than 20 minutes at a time in her home studio. She’s typically too busy accounting for her five children, their constantly-coming-and-going […]

I was born in a mining town in the north of England. My father was killed in 1967 while on active duty in the British Army. My mother, brother, and I then moved into the house of my grandfather, who was a working miner. The installations that I make are concerned with memories of those […]

Home lies at the exit of every train stop, in every traveler’s mind. They travel around for their ideals and their lives. But home is where their hearts lie. To make someone feel touched sometimes all it takes is a rose; to fall in love sometimes all you need is a detail. Sometimes you end […]

By working with the characteristics of a chosen site I create sculptural installations that are architecturally as well as personally structured. Space and its parameters are examined, then altered, and manipulated, generating a very unique spatial environment, in order to sharpen our perception of it and of ourselves, beyond normal reality and its habits. I […]

Earth—Man was completed in August, 2007. It was scorching hot. At 8 a.m., I went a barber shop in the art district, and had all my hair and facial hair shaved off. At around 9 o’clock, a friend of mine started to paint on my head and my face. This friend is a graphic designer […]

In 2003 an all-night exposure of the stars made during a camping trip was lost due to the effects of whiskey. I was unable to wake up to close the shutter before sunrise; all the information of the night’s exposure was destroyed. The light of the rising sun was so focused and intense that it […]

My work derives from propaganda and other ideological sources. Since the late 1980s, I have made paintings and drawings based on images archived from advertisements, posters, “fine art” photographs, and tourist ephemera published under political movements ranging from the mid-1930s Nazi, WPA, and Stalinist “Five-Year Plan” tracts to current military recruiting and corporate Web-based “motivational” […]