The most immediately striking piece in "Unraveling Identities" was the video work of Akiko Kikuchi, projected in an elegant mirrored box on the floor. Kikuchi’s work is highly graphic—black and white—and this particular piece examines clusters of people separating and re-integrating into a crowd formation. The mirrored installation box created multiple dimensions in a fishbowl […]

Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, I was an only child who from an early age found escape through my drawings. Standard elementary school was replaced by boarding school and high school by a Southern Baptist military academy. I soon realized in these environments that the only way to find oneself was through one’s creations.   […]

On a jam-packed subway ride one morning, a Muslim woman in head-scarf-to-covered-toe black sat pressed against a blonde babe in seersucker and Sperry Top-siders. Simultaneously, writers at USA Today churned out a story on Taco Bell’s new launch in downtown Shanghai.   Julia V. Bainbridge Making a Home Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York was […]

A timeless and human quest: to understand our own mortality. We leave behind markers of time, then scrawl and shade and blur those marks. A specific task it is, to render the unknown, death: how we understand our idea of life, how we digest violence and loss.   Jessica Minckley Jessica Minckley is the curator […]

The Daadgalerie is one of the German capital’s few non-commercial spaces showing contemporary art made in Berlin. As part of the DAAD Artist-in-Residence program, Guy Ben-Ner has written, produced, directed and starred in (along with his family) the artistic short film entitled Stealing Beauty.   Guy Ben-Ner Guy Ben-Ner is an Israeli artist living in […]

I like to think that I come from two patriarchal cultures (Indian and American), but patriarchal in different ways. To immigrants, Bollywood films become a lifeline to India—what we remember or never knew existed. They became a way for me to define an essentialized, melodramatic, fantasy-based culture as a cornerstone of my identity. I think […]

Sylvia Ji’s paintings mesmerize the viewer. At first glance one is taken with the drop dead sexy allure of the women she paints, but upon closer inspection you realize that many of her subjects are on the verge of death at the hands of deadly spiders, venomous snakes or poisonous flowers. In contrast to the […]

My work revolves around a tension between images that are pastoral and familiar. Much of my curiosity stems from objects and natural occurrences encountered domestically or within nature. Some of these objects whether manufactured, intentionally altered, or specifically created, are often combined with performance to create new contexts. These objects become props and part of […]

Every image I create revolves around self-reflection and questions about the existence of the female human being. My works on this theme are more related to the human body. I have worked on this theme for many years, and this year I am planning a series of traveling solo shows around Asia to present my […]

Where are you from? is an exhibition about curatorial and artistic exploration. It is an exhibition that acknowledges that the contemporary Portuguese artist wanders far from home, settling elsewhere in Europe, in the U.S., in Africa, or Asia for a time, absorbing ideas and influences and then bringing them back to feed the art milieu […]