Rita McBride: Yesterday you described your process as cyclical. You called it a circular practice. Where do all of your thoughts and your decisions begin and end? Melissa Gordon: In my work there are often representations of images with references to specific events, histories, and people. All of the subject matter that I work with […]

Pieterjan Ginckels is a young Belgian artist whose recent project 1000 BEATS/1 BEAT is a seven-inch single featuring a single beat in an edition of 1000. He collaborated on the project with Barcelona-based, British artist Cristian Vogel, and Magnus Voll Mathiassen from the Norwegian design studio Grandpeople. Pieterjan Ginckels, Cristian Vogel, and Grandpeople, 1000 BEATS/1 […]

Dear scrappies, Shall we meet up soon to talk about ideas for the store for Secret Project Robot? I know everyone’s busy, but I am still into doing it. I have time this weekend and in general weekday evenings.  What do you say? My house, your house, etc. Missed u guys over the holidays Jojojo […]

Rocks are like people. They are an aggregate of materials formed slowly over time by nature and chance. They can be awkward and ungainly, but also glowing and beautiful. Rocks are easily identified and entirely common, yet there is something silent and mysterious about them. They are beautiful contradictions, and the same can be said […]

The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia, on the border of China and Nepal. The Himalayan mountain system is the planet’s highest and home to all 14 of the world’s highest peaks, the Eight-thousanders, including Mount Everest. In Tibetan, the mountain is called Chomolangma or Qomolangma ("Mother of the Universe"). Chomo means “Goddess,” while […]

One night in the early 70s, young Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki and a fellow colleague took a walk through Chuo Park in Shinjuku, and encountered “something amazing”—a couple full on doing it.  It was this incident that launched one of Yoshiyuki’s most controversial projects: a series of grainy black-and-white photographs called The Park. Made during […]

The iconoclastic stance Charles Merrill takes as both an artist and activist goes far beyond the formalized calls of civic duty. “There is only so much you can do with paint on canvas,” he says. Nonetheless, Merrill continues to lay paint on canvas to express his perception of the violence permeating the increasingly intolerant attitudes […]

Circles were everywhere—red, blue, black, yellow, green—across the floor, on the walls, near the ceiling. Hung from the roof were five bicycle wheels painted the same colors through which a yellow dragon was flying. Below the dragon on the floor was a huge piece of white canvas splashed with similar circles. Another long piece of […]

Matilde Digmann: Thank you for taking the time to talk to me. I would like to start by asking you about the title of the work Love Songs? How does it correspond to the content and expression of the work? Mary Kelly: Well, the title is kind of unusual for me: in the past I’ve […]

Less Than Day, Or Night, my recent sculptural installation at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, continues to explore what I call “homemade futurism.” The piece is inspired by the final Cantos of Dante’s Inferno in which Dante, led by Virgil, enters the freezing central pit of hell. At the end, as the pair climb their way […]