I met Florencia Guillen in London at the Royal British Society of Sculptors, where she works as an advisor to Britain?s most celebrated sculptors. Needless to say, I was impressed: Guillen?s fluency in four languages (she studied media and communication in Mexico), her artistic academic past (diplomas from both Palazzo Spinelli in Florence, Italy, and […]

Bearing faggots of channeledcherry branches checked deep redsurfing on feet of claysteel wheels carry naturallythe vertical levitationof Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. (…) MAD DREAM CHAMBER By Jamie DalglishIshmael Randall Weeks, All too Familiar – Installation @ MATCH, artspace – October 2004Bearing faggots of channeledcherry branches checked deep redsurfing on feet of claysteel wheels carry naturallythe vertical […]

The New Museum of Contemporary Art’s show "East Village USA" (200 works by 75 artists) is on view through March 19 in a space rented from the Chelsea Museum (the New Museum’s temporary home until the new location on the Bowery is completed in 2006). In ithe show?s press release, curator Dan Cameron suggests the […]

I don’t just mean the neighborhood, although I first lived there on Avenue D and 8th Street when it was still called the Lower East Side (or as someone tried to re-christen it, the Loser East Side, and another, the Looser East Side), when there were jazz bars like Slug’s and you could rent a […]

Joanne Mattera is an abstract artist who has been painting for over 30 years. She is the author of "The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax" (Watson-Guptill, 2001). Mattera exhibits regularly throughout the United States and abroad, and divides her time between Salem, Massachusetts and Manhattan. On and […]

The "East Village ASU" ("EVASU") Group show celebrates the inaugural re-opening of the B-Side Gallery space, which opened it’s doors first in 1983 and closed them in 1987. Those years marked the heyday of the East Village art scene, a period when the gallery’s stable included John Defazio, Bruce and Rhonda Wall, Pierre Cuvelier, Caren […]

Akira Kurosawa is the Sir Walter Scott of Japan. Just as the Scottish writer created a fascinating picture of Scotlandone based on romantic figures of highlanders and windswept cragsthat defined his nation for the rest of the world, so the Japanese director created a colorful vision of his countryemploying feudal samurai and richly painted geishathat […]

Kho Sant�’s is a delight: his commitment to painting and art studies is total; his bright enthusiasm and serious but humble pursuit of art is refreshing. The resultant abstract paintings show a talented and disciplined emerging artist. Kho Sant�’s Youthful Explorations of Balance and Dissonance By Cherie LouiseKho Sant�. Movement on blue.Kho Sant�’s is a […]

For an artist who has spent her lifetime lobbying for peace, Yayoi Kusama uses the word ‘fight’ a lot. The 75-year old artist and living legend talks about fighting to create, fighting to be original, and fighting for her artistic vision. All this talk of fighting sits oddly in the mouth of an artist who […]

Ryan Greis may pay the bills with illustration work for magazines like Cincinnati’s City Beat and New York Press, but his heart lies in less urbane locales. Employing exaggerated stereotypes and a brilliant (if somewhat dark and fractured) sense of realism, Greis has created a series of portraits and paintings dubbed "Pooptooth" that celebrate his […]