Surviving as a gallery in LA Mery Lynn McCorkle With real estateprofiteers busily boosting rents for artist lofts and art galleries in New York,staying in the art scene means perpetually seeking cheaper rent. As a result,galleries are popping up all over, making going to openings a logistical nightmare.You can’t be in Harlem, Chelsea, Soho, Williamsburg, […]

"Translatability" is the July 2003 show at Berlinerkunstprojekt David Adamo and Gordana Bezanov Below are a seriesof artists’ statements from the show. C a r l o s M o t t a With "Untitled 117 (Bellavista)," I am interested in activating thecontent of a series of photographs that represent the violent death of civiliansfor […]

WILL MCBRIDE Anna Bulbrook “I am veryinterested in boys. Let there be no doubt about that. But I do not meet themin train stations nor in the men’s lavatories. I do not go to places where I expect to see boys. I do not ask boys to come home with me for pay. But whenI […]

Interview with Andr�s Ram�rez Gaviria Esme Watanabe Watanabe:Andrés, what are the sources of the sounds? They seemed abstract and withoutreference but gave me the feeling of travelling through a haunted house. I feltlike spirits and ghosts were echoing my steps,, it was a little creepy, but engaging. Gaviria:Some of the sounds are a mix of […]

Youngsun Jin: A New Discourse Between Fresco and New Media Thalia Vrachopoulos If the criteriafor judging quality art are still comprised of a brilliant concept coupled withfine execution then Channeling Time: Youngsun Jin is among the noteworthy exhibitionsin London today. Jin masterfully revises fresco with new working methodologiesand formats to enliven traditional fresco. By creating […]

The Art of Peter �str�m: Order amid Exuberance Carter Ratcliff In Peter Åström’srecent paintings, line doesn’t simply move over the surface. It ploughsthrough the surface—a surface which is a mixture of pigment and modelingpaste. As the line advances, it evolves. In fact, Åström’s linehas been evolving since the early 1980s. Along the way it has […]

Hansueli Urwyler: Fire and Ice Maureen Dougherty, Jamie Dalglish and David Anderson When viewing thelandscape paintings of Swiss artist Hansueli Urwyler, a spectacle of light andelemental configurations make themselves present. In the painting Vision SchwefelschwadenMte. Vulcano (Sulfur Fumes of Mt. Volcano) one can imagine stepping off the roughrocks and into the silver sea of flowing […]

Manet/Vel�zquez – Magnificent Piri Halasz New York has beenblessed recently with three blockbuster exhibitions, each one in its way richlyrewarding, but appealing to somewhat different audiences. The first was “Leonardodi Vinci: Master Draftsman.” The second was “Matisse/Picasso,”and the third :”Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting,”at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through June 28). In […]

Hands Across the Water – Conditions for a Better Future Linda Dennis Certain Conditionsis the title of a show that came about as a result of an East Williamsburgh artist– myself, meeting Sam Fleming, an artist from Belfast Northern Ireland, in aninternet conversation about studio exchange. His interest in reaching out toexplore opportunities for exposing […]

War and Peace: Artists’ Voices Various Artists During a recentinterview for a publication on the impact of 9/11 on New York’s art world,I declared that my work hadn’t been this political since GW’s fatherwas in office. Then I thought about what I had just said. Well, yes and no. I’vealways engaged with gender representations in […]