In 2006 I came to Shanghai for the first time for a couple of months, where I came in contact with the experimental music/noise scene in Shanghai. Leo Xu organized a show at the Zhu Quizan Museum with Wang Changcun and I. We discovered many common threads in our work and the way we perceive […]

Having the opportunity to work large scale has been such a gift to me. While it is much more challenging, logistically in particular, it is also much more rewarding. It is a blessing to have this degree of accuracy in terms of my vision—especially with respect to the nightmares on which most of my work […]

"Vision is not the right word," Donald Pass explains, "it really was like a veil had been lifted. I was so aware of it going on, and yet it was as if I wasn’t there, as if I was watching a film." Sitting in a graveyard one day, Pass had an extraordinary vision. It was […]

Thomas Zipp’s work was on view at Marc Jancou Contemporary in a solo exhibition entitled Thomas Zipp: Paintings 2002-2007. Five years after the gallery’s first Thomas Zipp exhibition in 2003, its engagement with the work is carried on in a survey of paintings produced from 2002-2007, which is comprised mainly of portraits and landscapes.Thomas Zipp […]

Montana based artist Terry Karson brings a collection of 39 "Fragments" to San Antonio’s Sala Diaz. A series began shortly after a trip to Turkey with his wife in 2004, the compositions are inspired by tiled surfaces of Turkish mosques that directed the artist’s interest toward age-bearing materials and the remnants of an obsolete language. […]

I got hooked on the craft of photography back in the 80s, and I decided to learn more by doing some part-time courses. I really liked the quick hit of producing an image, and the buzz of waiting to see how a picture I had taken would turn out. Although I had no idea about […]

On view in February at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center were five terra cotta pieces, which materialize a personal exploration of identity, displacement, and acculturation. The sculptor, Ovidio C. Giberga is a first generation Cuban-American who spent the earlier part of his life living abroad in Spain, Venezuela, Colombia and Italy. In his work […]

Self-taught artists are handicapped in as much as they did not have formal training, the guidance, and the contacts that academically taught artists have had. They are coming from a very different place. The “outsider” term covers a lot of different styles, from folk art to gritty urban graffiti. My work is mostly purely abstract […]

I started making the drawings…as a way to both counter and enhance this power, depending on my mood, as a way to gain false mastery of the words, of the language, and as a way to enter an alternative world in order to jump start my neurotransmitters during a nasty depression one winter, I started […]

A ghost materialized, wandering in the street of a city in the middle of the night—this was the feeling I had when I first saw the new works of Liu Xin-Tao. People fear the night because they can’t see the world as clearly as they do during the day, and that makes them feel they’re […]