A group of Japanese artists in the 50s called the Gutai group worked closely around the idea of painting as an autobiographical record, performing action painting by using their bodies. I enjoy looking at images of their work and the photo or video documentation of their performances.   Yui Kugimiya was born and raised in […]

The press release for Ira Cohen’s retrospective contains a saying by Jimi Hendrix, Ira Cohen’s friend from bygone times: “Looking at these pictures is like looking through butterfly wings.” This major show is devoted to an unusual American artist. An exhibition of photographs of “reflected human forms in fluid metamorphosis” created by Cohen in the […]

As one year of war in Iraq and Afghanistan has folded into the next, the initial sense of national emergency has faded into a state of uneasy complacency. The war is over there; its significance is not immediate in the lives of most Americans. Its real costs and real consequences in human terms are known […]

In 1998, I enrolled in a degree in Visual Arts at the Escola Superior de Arte e Design (ESAD). It was a relatively new school in Portugal, located in a small Portuguese municipality called Caldas da Rainha. This town was already associated with some art movements of some importance in Portugal, and also had an […]

Dear Erotic Art Enthusiasts, Greetings from San Francisco, the clitoris of the USA. We are pleased to share with you a bit about our lives and work regarding the subject of “erotic” art. We are two artists in love in the grand tradition of artist couples such as Yoko and John, Gertrude and Alice, Gilbert […]

When we were younger, my mother wasn’t home much of the time. She was always traveling on business so we found ourselves being raised primarily by my taxi-driving father. My younger brother, Stephan and sister, Suzette were a team along with my father.   Sean Marc Lee lives and works in Los Angeles. Sean Marc […]

Dannielle Tegeder’s installation of drawings, video, and found object sculpture titled The Chicago Index of the Invisible: Incidents and Interconnections explores unexplained disappearances and crimes. Everyday in the United States 2,000 people are reported missing and according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations there were over 50,930 missing adult cases as of January 31, 2007. […]

Leah Oates: What are you working on currently in the studio? Karen Marston: I’m doing studies for a new series, small paintings on wood panels that I approach more like drawings or sketches. I’m exploring a new form for me, different but still part of the anatomical work I’ve been developing for several years.   […]

Mary Cook: Greg, Congratulations on your first one-person exhibition at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery. It is a pleasure to get a sneak peak of your work before it is on view across the river in Chelsea. Greg Lindquist: Thank you for visiting. This show Industry follows the trajectory of the last show, To Brooklyn, which […]

According to Joaquim Vieiras, with whom I agree, artists are people who produce images without being asked by anyone to do it. However, these images are made to be seen by others. For whatever reasons painters produce images—which implacably vary—this activity always demands the answer to at least one question: “What to paint?” (at least […]