I am an Irish artist who lives in Los Angeles. I have lived and worked in New York City, Italy, Belfast, and Dublin. My work is included in many European and Irish collections, public and private. Initially recognized as a painter, I have in recent years produced a consistently strong body of video-based work. My […]

My work is influenced by generations of naturalists and their practice. Like those before me, I too have developed my own unique practice, using nature and the natural world as both material and subject. As an artist working in collaboration with the environment, I have ideas that are often manifest as 3D sculptural compositions of […]

For Jamie Isenstein’s solo exhibition Acéphal Magical at Andrew Kreps Gallery, Isenstein took on the role of the magician’s assistant in the midst of the classic “Sawing the Lady in Half” illusion. Rather than being sawed in half, the illusion was of “sawing the lady at the neck,” suggesting that half of the box contains […]

I was born in Wenzhou, China. Hangzhou is my second hometown. I like strolling along the West Lake, watching old people sipping Long Jing tea bathed in the sunset. This is the kind of peacefulness I am looking for. If only the city would slow down and savor this very moment. I like to pretend […]

The character “囧” has been completely transformed, and has an absolutely different meaning than it did before. In ancient Chinese history, “囧”  meant “brightness.” Now it has been altered by the media, by us—generations born in the 80s and 90s, to mean profound thinking, or romance and passion. I feel the character seems to have […]

The work I create is an attempt to make physical manifestations of vague, ethereal, and intangible things. My installations have touched upon a range of themes and preoccupations from gossiping and telling lies to flight, falling, and absence. One of my most recent installations was entitled Small White Lies. It was formed of 77 small […]

My practice consists mostly of making installations. I am not interested in making new objects, but rather in creating new experiences. The idea of “temporary work” is important to me as a mirror of the transitory nature of the human condition. I am very sensitive to the social-political-spiritual atmosphere of a given time or moment. […]

April Street’s paintings bubble over like an interpretation of lyrics, made richer by years of poetic flexibility and lubricous perceptions. Her paintings embed watercolor bloom effects that appear to be dredged through gauzy light, reminiscent of a 70s album cover, fashioned by a transported courtly Fleming on acid. These trippy surfaces connote a cut-and-paste methodology, […]

A partnership of five international arts organizations, Museum as Hub is a new model for curatorial practice and institutional collaboration established to enhance our understanding of contemporary art. Both a network of relationships and an actual physical site located in the fifth-floor New Museum Education Center, Museum as Hub is conceived as a flexible, social […]

“Organic movements” are what I always try to pursue in my performance art. Everything changes in this world: society, emotions, relationships, and countries. No one knows what happens tomorrow. But we know one thing for sure: good art does not equal best-selling art. An artist should hold up a bright hope. No matter what style […]