January is figure month at the Walter Wickiser Gallery. In one group show, Milton Avery’s daughter, March Avery, and grandson, Sean Cavanaugh, grace the walls with curious appropriations and realistic apparitions. In another nearby room hang the story tale narratives of Korean artist Deulnai Kim, which show a great mastery of aquatint etching. In the […]

In her second solo show, “Vice Versa,” Sofi Zezmer entices the viewer into her futuristic universe, magnified under a powerful microscope. The 18 objects in her exhibition are constructed from jazzy, color-saturated plastic, meticulously assembled, fitted with clamps and bits, and pieces culled from medical suppliers and toy factories. They vary in size from 12 […]

If you want to view a resurrection, then Columbus, Ohio is your city. Here, the long extinct Dodo bird can be seen gracing the walls of the Columbus Museum of Art thanks to the images in the exhibit “Dodo & Mauritius Island, Imaginary Encounters” by Finnish sculptor and photographer Harri Kallio. If one didn’t know […]

On the coldest night of the year, a large, convivial crowd turned out for Brian Degraw’s New York debut at James Fuentes Gallery’s inaugural.  A veritable youth quake—jostled cheek to jowl—squeezed together into the small, Chinatown storefront. A call to arms for youth to man the barricades, or at least so the press release pronounced […]

Steven Psyllos: Please describe the process of your art-making. Do you have a certain image in mind or is the process more organic? Kai Lintumaa: My process varies a lot, there are times when I know exactly what I am trying to create, be it a composite or a single shot, while at other times […]

The principle interest of my studio practice is the exploration of the fine line between the forgotten or overlooked moment and the fetishized memory as simultaneously seen through the filters of portraiture in the West, snapshot photography and the contemporary cultural phenomenon of constant surveillance. Inevitably, it also addresses memory, as it is known through […]

To define art is a nearly impossible task, but to understand the artist’s experience in the process of creation is to unlock—if ever so slightly—a part of the mystery. Within the work of Gersain Muriel, one can perceive the necessity to say what one feels and what one lives. In his sensuous compositions, one often […]

Charles Michael Norton, trained and renowned in Europe and the West Coast of America as a sculptor, now transliterates three-dimensional objects into remarkable paintings in his “Sudden Springs Suite.” The physicality of gathering, the materiality of emotion and the concretization of thought are hallmarks of his sculptures. From his background, he brings the concept of […]

In Rubert’s works, we find “joi de vivre,” but also cannibalism, fear and an irony that impregnates all. He permits the spectator to view the outline of a smile as his male character overcomes his apprehension of those women who go beyond the stereotyped femme fatal. His paintings gather up all the fears that masculinity […]

When it comes to contemporary art, the European city most likely to break all barriers and offend all senses (which, in turn, gives birth to the next trend) is…the city of London. Only in London will an artist—in this case Martin Creed, who won the coveted Turner Prize in 1991—be awarded a prize for exhibiting […]