I have been following the work of Ivan Stojakovic ever since he began painting. Therefore I have a bit of an illusory belief that I am capable of understanding all the changes which occurred in his creative artistic personality during the last decade. But, since he is “far away” (in New York) and I am […]

The Nobel Prize winner and most well-known writer of Iceland, Halldór Laxness once wrote that the Icelandic psyche resembles the Icelandic landscape and weather—chaotic, rough and soft at the same time. As visitors tune in to the energy of Iceland on their arrival into the moon-like landing area close to its capital, Reykjavik, they will […]

There is an artificial island in the bay of Kotor, off the coast of Montenegro, which is being built by the townspeople of Perast (population: 360). It is very much a work in progress, begun in 1452. They began building this island to accommodate a church, Gospa od Skrpjela (Our Lady of the Rock). Both […]

In these new paintings, I am attempting to realize the “unreal” through the use of mythical references. Utilizing witches to explore the depths of sexuality, mysticism and power, I compose the paintings as conceptual cinematic storyboards and tell a story from multiple points of view. Invoking, at times, sexually explicit subject matter, while looking to […]

I’ve always been fascinated with mythology: Metamorphoses, the Kalevala, Popol Vuh, the epics of Gilgamesh, it doesn’t really matter from which era or location. Mythology is the imagination’s primordial attempt to overlay a structure onto life, to give an architecture to things only seen obliquely and sensed peripherally. These mythological works—which purportedly arise from the […]

During the opening of the Preview Berlin Art Fair, Ryan was serving vodka cranberry mixers out of Dixie cups to friends and collectors in his solo booth. The drinks were hard (he called them “Cape Cods”), and all around people were swilling down the blend amidst ten of McLaughlin’s newest paintings. Representing him at this […]

Delicately painted portraits of famous females form the delicious content of the works of Alika Cooper who was recently featured in the project room at LightBox. A Master of Fine Arts graduate from the California College of the Arts, Alika investigates the socially infectious personas of a handful of celebrities, classic and contemporary, including women […]

Après avoir ausculté les méandres de la pathologie physique de la mode et du corps, en tant que styliste, Nicole Tran Ba Vang montre aujourd’hui le revers du culte de la perfection et de la valeur statutaire du vêtement. Une série de collections de Prêt à Porter qui se cale volontairement sur la temporalité de […]

What if you could never make anything beautiful?  And what if you wanted to be an artist but no one would help you, support you, or encourage you?  These are two of the many dynamics underscoring Phyllis Rosser’s intent in making art. I met with Rosser recently in her studio on the edge of Soho, […]

Suddenly it seems that Andy is everywhere, in galleries, in bookstores and on T.V. Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties, by Steve Watson, was recently published by Pantheon Books; Andy Warhol, a documentary film by Ric Burns, played on PBS; and three New York City exhibits (“Sculls, Hammer & Sickles” at the Perry Rubenstein gallery […]