My drawings have often been described as organic surrealism and I suppose, since I was born under the sign of Taurus, it seems only natural that my art should have an earthy quality about it. I never know what I am going to draw when I sit down with my enormous sheet of white paper, […]

For Your Pleasure has been instigated to celebrate the opening of the new Matches store in Marylebone High Street, London. My contribution to the store is based on circus imagery. I have been a life-long fan of circus stemming from my mother’s love of it. She quite literally ran away with one when I was […]

My work is a by-product of the visionary experiences I’ve been having since I was a child. Starting at the age of seven, they were basically out-of-body experiences that occurred in bed at night as I tried to go asleep. Instead of sleeping, I would leave my body, astrally projecting into another realm. In this […]

As Mao Ze-Dong, Abraham Lincoln, the Pope, the Statute of Liberty, Lenin, Stalin, and Marx appear in one picture, histories resurface against a grayish yellow backdrop. These political icons stride forward, side by side, with their arms and palms stretched wide open, an adamant look on their faces. They are the great men in Chinese […]

Dana Schutz’s early paintings of distorted humans and unearthly scenes earned her acclaim for their absurdist sensibility and a painterly style reminiscent of Gaugin. Eschewing naturalism, Schutz’s work favors visceral feeling over faithful visual representation. The subjects of her paintings are no less surreal than the way in which they’re rendered; a series of “self-eaters” […]

What is the real meaning of photography? It is not an advertisement or mainstream news photography. We should remember that contemporary art “accepts” photography initiative, not photography actively walking into the contemporary art field. The meaning of contemporary art is changing. So is the meaning of photography, but the basic meaning of photography never changes. […]

An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it represents. It’s the kind of thing writers—especially poets—are always trying to scratch out on paper, because it’s a primary tool of their craft. Remarkably, onomatopoeia is also how Jennifer Poon paints. Her brushstrokes on paper look and feel like what they are—simple, precise, striated overlappings […]

World Histories presents 11 artists whose work fits comfortably at the forefront of the international contemporary art scene and its continuing dialogue with aesthetics, formalism, and the influence of the artists who have come before. However, while participating in this globe-spanning conversation, each of these artists uses his or her work (and the “language” of […]

Those of us who choose to live in a large city are over-stimulated and confronted moment-by-moment with a myriad of choices. Our boundaries are penetrated every time we step into a jammed subway train, a packed bus, a crowded intersection. Information, en-mass, presents itself every millisecond, and in order to maintain focus, we must sift […]

El Museo del Barrio, New York’s premier Latino and Latin American cultural institution is pleased to present its groundbreaking exhibition,  Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000. "Arte no es vida" surveys, for the first time ever, the vast array of performative actions created over the last half century by Latino artists […]