My work is a personal, passionate response to the human condition; it explores fantasies, feminism, sexuality and gender, notions of desire; both sexual and cerebral—life in all of its turbulence, tears, confusion and sometimes even playfulness. It is a response to thoughts, both in memory and on an everyday basis, improvised through the drawn image […]

The impact and dynamism of Rodolpho Parigi’s paintings sprout from many hours of labour in a small and quaint studio in São Paulo, to the sound of the White Stripes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fuelled by hearty, home-cooked Italian platters. It couldn’t be any other way, these powerful and at times overwhelming works could […]

On a weekday afternoon in January, Cynthia von Buhler is sitting in the window of Exit Art filling small plastic balls with her own menstrual blood. “It looks like candy!” she exclaims of the fluid, which is indeed a gorgeous crimson. The Massachusetts-bred artist is stocking her CYNTH-O-MATIC vending machine with bodily samples (pubic hair, […]

When viewing Esao’s work, one immediately longs to get another glimpse of his paintings. This kind of art—work that keeps you coming back for more—is what great art is all about. The young, talented artist has marked himself as one of the most unique and talented artists that New York has to offer. I spoke […]

Natalia Fabia reveals the world behind closed doors. Her work possesses a vibrancy that is erotic and enticing in nature, while maintaining a delicate semblance of charm and femininity that lends itself to an endearing quality. The art of Natalia Fabia is academic and painterly, yet new-age and narrative. She collages many things into her […]

For those familiar with the S&M self-portraiture and photos of trans-gendered subjects she produced during the early 90s, Catherine Opie’s show, “American Cities,” on view at Barbara Gladstone might come as a surprise. Prominently featured in high-profile exhibitions dealing with queer culture such as the Guggenheim’s “Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance […]

Well, it happened. It got even bigger, this super bowl of the art world. With some dozen and a half fairs, Miami in early December is Art World. And everyone was there, catching up with art esthetics, theories and achievements that seemed endless and bright. As I took in the first day and a half […]

My present style of painting evolved from sketchbook work and experimentation with photography. I etched into the photographs to reveal the neon-like colour from beneath and distorted larger areas with bleach and water. The paintings are a transfiguration of these etchings/drawings, encompassing the spontaneity and bold colour of the etchings in their transformation into oil […]

The human figure is the vehicle with which I can most positively relate. I’m preoccupied and fascinated with and curious about the solitariness and mysteriousness of human beings. The more developed my curiosity becomes, the more acute, the more complicated, complex and suggestive the world around people becomes. I am also driven and guided by […]

I’m currently working on a series of paintings that each feature a single face or head. I’m interested in how the painted portrait or, perhaps more accurately, how a painting that looks like a portrait, can be used to explore ideas of the uncanny and the (fear of the) loss of identity. The subjects in […]