The Post Apocalyptic Tattoo: A Ten Year Survey is a history of post-modern angst directed from the point of view of a tattoo artist. One of the intriguing things about this show is that the artist D. Dominick Lombardi claims to be a “vehicle for the Tattoo Artist” who “sends” the images. Lombardi in fact […]

Mixed Greens started in 1999 as the vision of a passionate collector, Paige West.  Paige was tired of people only being able to name dead artists. She wanted to give living artists, and, in particular, under-recognized artists, a platform. She started through documentary film and then, as the Internet took off, created the mixedgreens.com Web […]

For Wu Jun-Yong, the world is a circus and life is a performance full of diversity and banality. The images Wu creates are like sparkling phrases, composing a story that is never finished. For five years, Wu has been expanding his vocabulary of images that are multiplying like mushrooms after the rain. The little people […]

What roles do objects and gestures play in rites we perform in culture and how are they part of the production of identities? Can we reclaim and re-appropriate existing forms that have shaped and fixed the social roles we perform? Susan Sontag wrote that “to perceive camp in objects and persons is to understand Being […]

All of what I just mentioned, my education and life have inspired me, and made me who I am today. These experiences are enriching, and inspiration, for me, is the reaction to chaos. You observe, you express, you ask, you answer. It’s like a dialogue with yourself. Your feelings and thoughts find their own way […]

David Charles and Gustavo Lacerda have an ongoing project exploring a very simple concept that appeals, well, to everyone: sex. David visualizes an idea and Lacerda has the perfect photographic style to bring them to life. They start working on the photo way before it’s taken. From set design to art direction they work together […]

Sue Ferguson Gussow is a figurative painter who works in a wide range of drawing and painting media. A graduate of the Cooper Union, Columbia, and Tulane University, Gussow has served on the faculties of both the School of Art and the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union and taught and […]

Elegant contours of a lady’s face surrounded by vibrant petals spawned an upbeat atmosphere that encircled Broadway Gallery in New York City in April. Such was the work of Italian artist Stefania Carrozzini. The bold colors in Carrozzini’s collage piece created a strong contrast with the rest of the works presented in The Places of […]

During my daily walk down Bleeker Street, heading towards 7th Avenue, I deliberated bypassing my favorite patisserie in favor of the hip Mud coffee truck positioned just across West 4th in Sheridan Square. My inner “cool barometer” lobbied for this new, convenient, efficient, and chic-as-Apple alternative. Coffee on wheels has taken on a fresh new […]

These paintings are part of a series I began in late 2002 through early 2003, a year after my mother’s death. For the previous 25 years, I had worked entirely in welded steel, as a self-taught sculptor of animals and imaginary creatures. My formal education was in science (Biology and Pre-med), and the animal sculptures […]