In and with my art, I repeatedly touch on sensitive, taboo issues by employing forms of artistic discourse that are very much critical of society. In this way, I examine social structures such as families; the would-be idyll of the nuclear family, for instance—father, mother, child, house, car—is revealed as a space in which pervasive […]

Valery Oisteanu, the Romanian born critic, poet and collage artist, has delivered a new movement to the East Village which he calls PO-COLLAGE. The first in a series of exhibitions took place in a basement gallery at the Thompkins Square Branch Library over the summer. It began with a reading and ended with a party […]

I paint images of imaginary people who lust and who are lusted after. Through the visual images that I paint, I am experimenting with lust in its many vital aspects: the relationship of the viewer to the image; the relationship of the images to each other. I explore the depths and breadths of life force […]

Aleksandra Jarosz Laszlo is a figurative painter. Her work ranges from formal portraits to the writhing and twisting forms of her more personal work, which deals with bodies and people as the reflection of the power relations among the characters that inhabit her canvases. It is an attempt to challenge and confront the darker human […]

Orly Cogan’s work is an irreverent take on the conventions of femininity. She stitches figures on dainty vintage fabrics. These found linens, which once served as table runners, bureau scarves and tablecloths in a more modest age, were already embroidered once by an earlier and more circumscribed generation of women. Cogan adds to these a […]

Sante´s father: Italian immigrant, barber, ´50s pinups hanging from the mirrors at the shop. Sante, 17, a small room in Brooklyn drawing his father’s face, obsessively, minutely, lead pencil, two laborious months to finish the tiny drawing, photo-like resemblance. He hangs it over his bed. Sante, 19, solitary spring months in Coney Island. Camera on […]

The John Moores 24 Painting competition is the longest running, open painting competition in the United Kingdom. Hosted biannually by The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England since 1957, it is open to all artists living or working in the UK. This year, it attracted 2,300 slide entries. A short list of 268 paintings were […]

The photographs in my “Double Duty” series started as key events and characters from my fantasy life as a child, representing the expression of emotional attachments that are still publicly unacceptable. The scale places the viewer eye to eye with these 12-inch dolls in a believable human environment. These large-scale photographs are not a representation […]

Wednesday was the VIP and Press Preview for the largest art fair in the US and I arrived directly from the airport—luggage in hand, badly in need of a shower—to help man our magazine booth. NY Arts is giving away a few thousand copies of the November/December issue to attendees of Art Basel Miami Beach, […]

This Italian (Spanish-born) artist is investigating a delicate field but, through the combination of technique and knowledge of its subject matter, he manages not to fall into vulgarity and obscenity. For many years, the painter has been developing a personal research focused on the rite of passage from childhood to youth that is characterised by […]