It is tempting to read Jeremy Drummond’s recent work as a straightforward critique of the suburban way of life. After all, suburbia is an easy target—the cookie cutter houses, the false sense of security, the failed promise of domestic bliss. Scholars, artists and urban planners have been bemoaning the woes of exurban growth for the […]

A lot has been written about Merrill Steiger’s paintings. References to aboriginal art, the meditative process of applying paint, the mandala, and that is all fine. But here, underneath the cover story, lie deep roots in pop art. Take, for instance, Mandala In Nature. The mandala in the middle, which is comprised of concentric prisms […]

Hannah Furmage is a conceptual artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her work aesthetizes risk and the margins of culture by orchestrating encounters with people who inhabit the outskirts of society. Rather than being a passive voyeur, she is an accomplice in the scenarios that she creates by reasserting the outsider‘s voice against the establishment. The […]

I was born Corsica, a small French island in the Mediterranean and now live in Paris, a very inspiring city. I used to work in the field of electronic and rock music for about five years. I then became a member of the Op-ac collective to merge my love of music and the visual arts. […]

Mindy Shapero spins an exquisite narrative web. She creates an alternative, quirky, personal universe, imbued with a dark undertow that at any moment threatens to engulf us. Her objects are both familiar and strange, residing somewhere within the realm of childhood fairytales, waking dreams and nightmares.“The Infinite Truth of Flatterland” presents four vividly colored paintings […]

Salmon Toor: How was the Yale School of Art, as it is one of the best schools in the country for painting? Was your style similar to the style of work you are producing now? Consequently, how big of an affect did the Grad school have on you as an artist? Elizabeth Huey: The whole […]

The Drawing Center’s “Levity: Selections Spring 2007” explores lightness in both material and metaphoric terms, featuring 14 emerging artists selected from the Viewing Program. The term “levity” might be used to describe any number of works of drawing, implying a “light touch,” lightweight or light-colored materials, a sense of humor or even irreverence towards high […]

The Fall 2006 Makor Artists-in-Residence program draws artistic inspiration from the many faces of the urban landscape. Throughout the program, Makor’s 27 Artists-in-Residence have navigated through ancient, mythical, imaginary and contemporary urban settings, including the cities of Babel, Jericho, Jerusalem, New York, Berlin and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. With these settings as focal points for exploration, […]

The New York-based artist John Kleckner opened his first solo show in Berlin on November 11th. Here, he exhibited a choice selection of his most recent works on paper. John Kleckner’s images can be described in many ways. His work could be explained as proto-emotional, pictorial phenomena employing metaphors of biology and evolutionary ecology. His […]

As curator, it was very important for me to try to reflect a variety of the presentation formats of audio culture, which deals with the production of space and with the construction of society. How can you exhibit an invisible reality that is permanently in flux outside of the exhibition space and within the spaces […]