As the Internet increases our dependence on imagined and parallel worlds, the barrier between reality and fiction continues to collapse. Our attachment to mass media and communications has enabled us to access a wealth of information and imagery that has perhaps diluted our sensitivity to the real. My work seeks to explore how we might […]

Louise Bourgeois surrounds herself in an enigma of drama and intrigue. Filled with violence, anger, shame, guilt, and pain, she creates work that is architectural, anthropomorphic, soft, and abject. Whether in bronze, iron, glass, or wood, both her art and sculptural language “is a Guaranty of Sanity.” A full-career retrospective of Bourgeois was on view […]

Perhaps one of the most exciting new global contemporary art scenes is Indonesia, where surprising risks are being taken by artists who are interested in merging Indonesian artistic traditions with Western currents in art practice. Nowhere is this more evident than in the bold minimalist abstractions of artist Hansen Thiam Sun, also known by the […]

Leah Oates: What does being an artist mean to you? Marlene Creates: I want to have a life full of rich experience. Of the infinite ways one might achieve that, being an artist seems to provide me with the greatest possibilities. Perhaps that sounds selfish, but many aspects of a rich life include dialogue, exchange, […]

Themes of magical realism stream through Giovanni Carlo Rocca’s work, capturing timeless moments of perfect tranquility, where photo-album memory flits in and out of waking dream. His works are splendidly layered, both formally and conceptually, and draw on assorted artists from art history, from Edvard Munch and Claude Monet to Friedrich and Klimt. His works […]

I perceive and present objects and configurations of life as a composition, representing that which is liminal, usually on the threshold of a changing state. A moment of transformation is “stilled,” whether that stilled moment is material, bodily or psychological, there is always a reference to transient adjustment or morphosis. The “stilled” moments between states […]

What is Earth Symposium took place at Orensanz Foundation on May 8 in New York City. For this symposium, What is Earth, I wanted to share with you some of my thoughts about the topic of “earth.” I didn’t talk about the globe versus the universe, the astronomical, mathematical, physical, or chemical, factors related to […]

The southwest region of the U.S. gets shot to death. Most art critics, gallerists or serious collectors, when first told of where I live, and that I travel around to shoot, immediately have the mindset of “Oh, you do landscapes. Regional photography, particularly that of the desert has been covered extensively.” In response I gently […]

You make north. To encounter the unknown, you must wade through the Artic Sea, toward the lighthouse. The fantastical can be found all around us. Fiction blends into our lives. The unreal is factual. My work is masquerade of recognizable places, people, and gestures. I photograph strangers, who invoke my desire. As an outsider, you […]

Tony Kelly has been described as an innovative, provocative, and highly energetic photographer. He was a young starter and learned fast. He quickly found himself covering all aspects of life from the genocide in Rwanda to the war in Afghanistan. Four years ago Kelly left press photography behind for fashion. He took with him his […]