My sculptures and inlaid wooden panels take viewers on a journey through the psychological landscape of the domestic interior, where the very walls and floors are charged with desire, while humdrum objects quietly smoulder in the heat of sublimated emotion. A Persian rug erupts into a lush desert oasis; a pedestal mat attempts to transcend […]

British artist Sarah Beddington’s first major New York solo exhibition, Crossing, takes place at the Dumbo Arts Center (DAC). Crossing is a site-specific, mixed-media installation responding to DAC’s ship-like interior and past maritime activity of the waterfront neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn. The exhibition’s premise draws on the story of the Experiment, the second ship to […]

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation. It is the way I confront the weight of my losses. My easel is my altar, my creations, unanswered prayers that hang in […]

The difficult game of balance always implies an interaction between two opposing elements. There is balance when two subjects accept and permeate each other, when they have the same weight. The German word “gleichgewicht” is exemplar. It includes two words: “gleich” means “same” and “gewicht” means “weight.” In the case of balance, stability is assured […]

The New Museum presented the first U.S. surveys of Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer this past summer. Double Album: Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer brings together two artists—Daniel Guzmán, born in Mexico in 1964, and Steven Shearer, born in Canada, in 1968—who use an array of visual media to explore the overwhelmingly male world of […]

The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center opened its doors in August to five new exhibitions in the museum’s galleries, running through November 16. The spotlight is on prints this fall in three of BMAC’s five new shows. Featured is a major retrospective of the prints of Jules Olitski, one of the 20th century’s foremost American […]

I am a Hong Kong-born, British-based artist, working in film, photography, and video installations. In a recent panel discussion at Tate Britain, I was invited to summarize the deeper meanings of my practice. After much pondering, I recounted an experience I once had of returning home from a sustained period traveling abroad. On my return, […]

Photographic images appropriated from various media outlets are the source for my work, which can be described as a hybrid between drawing and printmaking. I use carbon transfer templates as a way to filter the original photographic information to develop a new abstracted image. The works are created through this meticulous process, while keeping the […]

I’m essentially a painter who also works in performance. I come from a visual art background, not “live art” or theater, and this is very important to me as it informs the way my work is read. In the last 20 years or so I have developed ways of working to suit my need at […]

“Want to know what is going to happen next? Please listen to the next chapter.” I heard these words every day during my childhood. Every day at noon, 12 o’clock sharp, everybody would sit around the radio waiting for the upcoming program, a story-telling program featuring just one man. It was a one-man show, in […]