It wasn’t until after the communists took over Vietnam in 1975 that a young girl and her family were finally able to return to Saigon—Ho Chi Minh City, where they used to live before the Vietnam War. What they discovered there, was a partially evacuated metropolis. All of the Americans had fled and anyone who […]

Blurring or distorting the boundary between the traditional frameworks of painting and sculpture is hardly a creative approach without precedent in the art world since the early 20th century. Yet, beginning in 1979, Serbian artist Miroslav Pavlovic’s neo-constructivist essays on the topic have effectively confronted viewers time and again with the issue of dimensionality within […]

“It is all a little bit conscious and a little bit unconscious,” explains photographer Esther Varella, 27, about the juxtaposition between love and sickness, which synthesizes her work. This young Brazilian prodigy now resides in São Paulo, Brazil, after having lived nine years between New York and Los Angeles. She has been photographing since she […]

Where most artists navigate a mature career by uncomfortably modifying what’s best about their work in order to stay current or hip, few maintain the nuance, authority and creative curiosity that makes a difference. As an example of the latter, this conclusion is what one comes away with after seeing Otis Jones’ latest work at […]

Within the cannon of performance art, Sheila and Nicholas Pye delve into a constructed reality of photographic and cinematic possibilities. Sheila and Nicholas use the gestures of the body to build metaphors for marriage, dependency and mortality through imagery that is darkly poetic. Their latest exhibition, “A Life of Errors,” at Kasia Kay Art Projects […]

A concept, script, design and soundtrack: these could be the building blocks used to compose numerous artistic productions like a film or an animation, maybe even a theatre production. Coincidentally, these aspects are also taken into consideration when creating a video game. Gradually, video game art has begun to pop up in galleries and to […]

A children’s song about an inchworm that’s so busy measuring the marigolds that she doesn’t stop to see how beautiful they are. Not the case with Ilona Miko’s brain cell photographs on display at The Seed Design Studio in Santa Ana. The product of the research of a developmental neuroscientist—Research Fellow, Doctorate, neuroscience—these photographs bristle […]

The “Dada” exhibition opened in June at the Museum of Modern Art in New York with more than 400 objects in every medium existing at the beginning of the 20th Century. It was truly an international, cultural movement with artists organizing demonstrations, performances and publishing art and literary journals. The Dadaists’ revolt against the traditional […]

Six years ago I started this project. Beforehand I had been thinking a lot about taboos, about fears and I enquired into the difference between eroticisim and pornography and the fine line in between. I was also continuously questioning myself in relation to my motivation. I knew more or less what a vulva looked like, […]

Photomontages are usually made up of images that come from other images. Being able to see an image outside of its original context and putting into another is recycling at its best. This is why I enjoy creating digital photomontages. I’ll see something in a picture, separate the image from the picture and put it […]