In September 2006, the NARS (New York Arts, Residence and Studios) Foundation opened three studio complexes in Brooklyn—totaling 11,500, 13,000 and 17,000 square feet each—and offered artists 24-hour access. The inaugural group exhibition, “Pipe Lines,” which opened in September, celebrated the opening of the space at 88 35th Street, Brooklyn, and featured painting, sculpture, photography, […]

Photographic collaborators Lyn Balzer & Tony Perkins have been working together for over 12 years in a relationship that is almost symbiotic. Our fascination with the Australian landscape stems from an upbringing on Australia’s east coast near the idyllic rainforests and beaches of Byron Bay—our photographs reflect a deep passion and commitment to the beauty […]

Historically, erotic art is bogus. Somehow, somewhere along the line, we collectively decided that we knew what it meant to be “erotic.” “Erotic” was that narrow territory between tasteful and lustful, romance and sin. Dirty, but in a good way. But, regardless of how an artist chose to establish their own definition of what it […]

Liat Yossifor’s recent monochromatic portraits shift politics into process, clashing the tradition of modernist color-field painting with a conceptual concern about identity and invisibility, the body, its place in history and conflict, and the true depth of surface. The work features images of women performing aggressive, confrontational stances. Most of the models are Israeli with […]

Leah Oates: Please describe your work in terms of your process, themes and content?Sandra Bermudez: Thematically, my work is focused on gender issues and their visual representations in our culture. I explore the iconography that is often related to how women are depicted in societal outlets, such as advertisements and pornography. Currently, I am exploring […]

I start my work by making monochrome photographs and then painting them. I begin with a fairy tale and add eroticism to it in order to create original erotic stories. Each story is composed of roughly five to ten images, which form a story. These tales inspired in me a form of erotic delusion. However, […]

Perhaps my most extraordinary move as a beginning visual artist, around 1967, in my own middle-late 20s, was the decision to work primarily with words, only words. It was an innocent move, really, made less from intelligence than the lack of it; I never learned to draw likenesses or make collages or anything else that […]

The fifth edition of “Santa’s Ghetto,” the annual exhibition staged by the “Great Communicator,” Banksy, and his associated print house, Pictures of Walls, took place right in the middle of London’s West End, at 15 Oxford Street. There, in an old Clark’s shoe store, some of the most noted artists of the international underground scene […]

Art that envisions the human body in architectural terms is not a new phenomenon. Last year, Kestenbaum & Company auctioned a 1707 Hebrew, Latin and Turkish edition of Tobias Cohn’s medical encyclopedia, Ma’aseh Tuviah (“The Work of Tobias”), in which artist Antonio Luciani drew Cohn with bared innards. Cohn’s body is mapped out over a […]

Art is a coded projection. All great art is myth. In contemplating this new solo show of 18 stunning, mixed media conceptual photography works by the ever-imaginative, ever-growing John Baldessari, it is possible to ask questions of the works that lesser artists might also try, and fail, to answer in theirs. Baldessari himself doesn’t try […]