A bright, sunny day welcomes us in Middletown, Connecticut, home to Wesleyan University. We’re in for a real treat: a sneak peek into an otherwise little shown, diverse and rather eclectic collection of prints, photographs, musical instruments, archeological materials and East Asian artifacts. The collection is currently relegated to small and sometimes inadequate storage facilities, […]

Art isn’t formulaic speculation, nor is it the suffocation of a restricted circle, even less is it a game to be played among the nouveau riche or soon to be nouveau riche. Art must be concerned with people. What the artist needs is a consciousness of people. The Lv Xiao is a self-organized internet community […]

My current work “Couples” attempts to address a series of questions about self-representation, the private versus public experience, and the ephemeral nature of control in a series of large-scale photographic autoportraits. In my experience shooting fashion and other commercial photography, I became fascinated by roles played both by myself as the photographer/director and that of […]

Deng Jianjin painted all his images with knotty strokes. Thanks to the sense of connection between a knotty look and a morose mood, the painter has been able to express his inner desolation through knotty strokes. This style was commonly seen in traditional Chinese scholarly paintings as a result of the early aesthetical development in […]

The sculptural installation, Halong-Kellong, is the imagined self-projection of modern life from a Chinese peasant’s perspective. This is a work of analytical realism, using the processes of design, production, participation and performance to present a microcosm of contemporary China. Halong-Kellong is comprised of a three hand truck imprinted with a Harley-Davidson style logo. Each work […]

To me, being an artist is to be perceptive in ways that others can’t be. To focus on the details and the texture. To sense tension and mood. In my work, and with these things in mind, I like to create an atmosphere in which to get lost. I usually gravitate towards photographing people, or […]

My favorite subject matter is people, and specifically, people doing what they naturally do.  When I first moved to New York, I was strictly a behind-the-scenes photojournalistic type of photographer, having been mainly into documenting what was happening around me or what I excitingly stumbled upon, predominantly in the music community and on the streets, […]

Grappling with an over-active imagination isn’t always easy, but artist Amy Cutler manages to make the feat appear at once effortless and well worth the try. With her drawing and gouache on paper fabrications, Cutler first establishes elaborate alternative frameworks of reality and culture and follows up by throwing women and girls of every age […]

For artist Lori Earley, painting what is beautiful comes both from inspiration within and from the outside world of cutting-edge fashion. Inspired by the imagination of high-end fashion icons such as Alexander McQueen or the exotic wardrobes of Jennifer Nicholson, Earley’s stunning portraits of esoteric women evoke mood and form as equally poignant and delicate […]

Pre-eminent in his field, Zhang Lin Hai’s collection of new works shows how he is evolving stylistically as an artist as he further develops his scope of imagination, and his motif of bald young boys against a backdrop of a post-industrial arid wasteland. More so now than ever before, Zhang Lin Hai’s onus is placed […]