While watching films or reading fiction I find myself drawn to particular objects, images or scenes I find significant on their own. In my mind I extract these moments, focusing on them as finished works instead of simply a part that is lost in the whole of the story.  In many ways my projects––in video, […]

Using cultural clichés as a catalyst, this exhibition focuses on the labels that have given cultural meaning to the specificities of a given region. Finland does not belong to the Arctic in any literal geographic sense, but the Finns—as well as the French and the English—are believed to have specific national characteristics, due to their […]

If the value of art hinges upon how art is viewed in the history, does the way art looks at social conflicts also play a role in determining its value? The first section of my new book addresses how we can use art to examine our existence in light of Taiwan’s historical and social complexity. […]

Zeldis’ paintings are pictures of hope—the fecundated Harlem evenings, the beauty pageants. Who will find love tonight? Who will win? They are pictures by someone softening things for us, filing the burrs of reality off so that we can touch things again without thick gloves. In her work, there is the compassion of someone welcoming […]

Recently, Carla Klein took her show on the road, which is to say that a number of the paintings she has produced in the last months are based on snapshots made while driving (or, alternatively, while being driven, as the case usually seems to be) across the United States. These source photographs, as they may […]

The only “erotic” art I like is that of the great artists who respond to the sensual nature of their model, rather than trying to create “sexy images.” The artists I look to are Schiele, Bellmer, Rodin, Modigliani, and even Picasso. Much of the “eroticism” in my work is created either by the chemistry between […]

I actually like the way I dealt with the large pieces of paper on the floor, which I wanted to do because I didn’t want to loose the instrument of my feet drawing, as well as my hands. When I used to do them, it was an improvisation. It was the same adrenaline rush that […]

A painting is a fiction—a conglomeration of materials, thought, and time. It is also an assertion about what really matters to the painter, about what in his or her imagination of the wider world is worth attending to in optical and material terms. And it is an attempt to restate on a human scale the […]

Somewhere between the sophistication of the art Mecca that is New York and the sustained hype of Los Angeles is the Houston art scene. Those not familiar with Texas may be unaware of the dichotomy that ultimately makes Houston so intriguing: Here, the brisk momentum of busy day-to-day life that makes any large city feel […]

This work comes from a constellation of ideas related to landscape painting, self-organizing matter, and the view of “things” as aggregates. While they are landscapes for the most part, I’m interested in the matter that constitutes the ground, and how it relates to human bodies and culture. Here matter is the principle actor, whether it’s […]