Taiwanese painter Yang Chi-Hung’s deeply intricate abstractions offer up a hint of figuration that compel the viewer to attempt to find structure in his perfectly static fields of chaos seemingly frozen in time.  Having painted for over four decades, Yang, who was born in Taiwan in 1947 and graduated from the prestigious National Taiwan College […]

The drawings of Huston Ripley can undoubtedly be labeled “Visionary.” Firmly rooted in deep levels of collective imagery, they bubble up insistently from the artist’s unconscious. For viewers they conjure windows onto a singular world crowded with imagery, action, and aura. They are also obsessive-compulsive, in the best sense of the term—a relentless and recursive […]

I’m Nora Ness, life scientist and self-taught photo artist with an eye for the beauty of the female body. Since I can remember I’ve been attracted to the beauty of the naked female body. My erotic self-performance in front of the mirror, showing true erotic moments and passion, catches the eye of anybody who isn’t […]

The Days was inspired by photographs randomly taken in my daily life, which are kept on my computer as part of an electronic album. When you see these images, you go on a trip down memory lane. Memories are triggered by personal experience. While some of the memories are re-enhanced, others are gradually forgotten. The […]

The answer to this question depends on society’s current moral compass. In times gone by the flash of a lady’s ankle was enough to deprave a nation. Now we live in a time—at least in the western world—where the bikini is de rigeur for the public beach. On every music channel semi-clad men and women […]

In September of 2007, Gabriel Shaffer and I participated in a joint exhibit combining his paintings with my poetry, allowing both art forms to react with, and against the other. We called it Animal Returns, and as the title suggests, we embraced the experience as a journey through the guts, the teeth, the eggs, and […]

In the fall of 1994, I began to photograph lovers in the SM scene in New York. My work had explored issues of sexual desire for many years, and sadomasochism was not new to me. It was the natural next step in a journey that I had set out on many years before. I had […]

“I am not interested in function and logic. I want to achieve transcendence,” says Fredrik Söderberg. The snow-covered clearing in Narnia is the beginning of a journey into a magical world. Much like the dreams of shamans, drug-induced hallucinatory states, and sexual experiences, Söderberg’s work can be understood as the transgression of boundaries and the […]

A digital artist from Badem-Württenburg, 52-year-old Eicher first achieved fame from her spatial copy collages. These early kaleidoscopically arranged pop-culture die-cuts—culled from the Internet and other commercial media—helped define the artist’s practice of re-contextualizing popular imagery. As a collector and curator of visual content, Eicher works with the Warhol readymade mentality of many contemporary media […]

Angel Rengell, sculptor, painter, and exceptional drawer, studies and purifies his lines until they reach their clearest expression; his nudes are a declared exaltation of the physical wish. Eroticism is part of his complete philosophy. His drawings establish a conception of skillfully represented lines, employing all expressive possibilities. The seductive influence of the moon is […]