My exhibition strategies often engage an audience comprised of a very general public that is not necessarily expecting art or gathered in established arts venues. I interrupt the daily flow of public exchange, inviting strangers into momentary relationships. I create websites that infiltrate and participate in online fan culture, offer non-professional advice to passersby from […]

I have never looked for meaning in my work. The things I draw have always been, in my mind, simply for aesthetic appeal. I often find myself categorized with pinup and erotic artists. I think in this category, artists are not expected to create meaning. I’ve been told my work evokes different emotions in different […]

Arnie Arnold is an Australian artist who works on the fringes of Sydney’s art, design and fashion communities. He boasts a prolific and diverse practice that blurs the lines between commercialism and art. He explains, “I have gone from photography to painting, to making sculpture from found objects, to making chandeliers out of sneakers for […]

Up until recently I had always considered my work in a commercial context—I have been an illustrator for over ten years, gradually working my way up some kind of ladder until I seem to have made enough of a name for myself and produced the kind of work that makes people want to own it […]

Lara Allen’s work is childish. Not innocent, or simple, or naive, or, heaven forbid, sincere. No. Lara Allen’s work is childish, and in the very best way. It is cheeky, dauntless, rollickingly grim and wholly unburdened by false distinctions. High, low, Christian, heathen, serious, playful, kitsch, sublime: critical taxonomies carry no currency here. Classifications are […]

My name is Anne Faith Nicholls. I am a 27 year-old artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. I call myself an artist for two reasons. The first and most obvious is that I make a living from the things I create. This is both amazing and freeing. It is also horribly […]

Digital art is an exciting and young genre. It presents new opportunities but also new challenges. Compared to the perceived authenticity of more traditional mediums like painting and sculpture, images made using an entirely digital process prompt a distance between the creator and viewer and sometimes lack personality. The digital medium has a soul of […]

Art is an uncontrollable passion and obsession. After many travels around the United States for such things as skateboarding and graffiti art, I found a home in San Francisco in 1997 and, among other things, a great community in which to exist and make art. The past nine years have brought me the development of […]

Inspired by Byzantine icons and early Renaissance painting, Chris Twomey explores themes of motherhood and identity as impacted by the latest scientific theories of ancestry genetics. The “Madonna Series” is her second solo show at the Tribes Gallery. Using all the tools available today; computer manipulated digital photography, printing,  scanning, DVDs, old fashioned painting and […]

The graphic strategies of mass media advertising have always played on viewers’ subliminal needs and desires in order to sell products. In the post-War period, the manipulative power of the media became synonymous with Madison Avenue’s seductive magic. Fast forward to the digital age: Vienna-based media artist Günther Selichar investigates how those advertising strategies of […]