Clunie Reid uses photographs, drawings, media images, and text to create aggressive and unrefined collages. Through the use of cheap materials and a rudimentary approach to display, Reid works against formality and the ideologies suggested by images of wealth and beauty dispersed within the work. Utilizing a deskilled aesthetic and emphasizing the act of composition […]

Each model that I collaborate with reacts to the camera in a different way, and I let that dictate the direction of our shoot. I use little artifice—no expensive lighting, professional backdrops, outfits, themes, and not even much makeup—putting the strength of the image on my ability to create a comfortable environment in which she […]

A towering influence on the evolution and iconography of Japanese contemporary art, Tadanori Yokoo has straddled the boundaries of commercial and fine art since the 1960s. His brilliance lies in his ability to weave mass imagery into complexly layered pictorial tableaux that trigger collective and personal memories. Yokoo’s appropriation of imagery and initial emergence during […]

Ripped and Torn is an arcade of unique artworks that appear to be sliced and diced with a scalpel, torn and ripped by hand, and assembled from non-logical parts by 24 whimsical artists who set out to create the aesthetic illusion of a magical world conjured up from the depths of their subconsciousness. Today collage […]

As an artist, I have created a series of work that manipulates various media. I want to produce a visual representation of global concerns. Using both Asian and European traditions, I explore the essence of landscape and nature. My work reflects the impossibility of a truly detached, objective perspective on the world. It suggested a […]

Acknowledged as one of the most highly regarded artists in South Africa, Jane Alexander is also one of the most reticent, taking the position that her work must make its own statement. Alexander is an artist whose talent was clearly apparent from the start. Her piece Butcher Boys is the most popular contemporary piece in […]

A proclivity for contradiction is evident in Steven Foy’s recent solo exhibition, The Arrangement Series, at the Broadway Gallery. A minimalist whose economic use of geometric shapes elicits a vocabulary of the nuance, a brilliant colorist with a penchant for discreet shades of gray, an abstract painter whose subject matter is the failure of abstraction, […]

I like to think of my recent work as a Frankenstein-like stepchild of the Hudson River School. Thomas Cole and his companions used to hike the Catskills with sketchbook in hand returning home to assemble landscapes of the sublime. I lug a backpack full of expensive technology to capture fragments of nature, and then sit […]

The “landscape” is a metaphor. The work is in progress, and it points to a task that is never finished. There are many layers of meaning and complexity in The Painter’s Studio. Courbet’s vision of the world shows itself twice over, with a small painting in progress within a large painting, also a work in […]

Broadway Gallery recently presented Wappen Field: Work in Progress by sculptor Michelle Jaffé. At this evolutionary stage of its development, the installation has six suspended chrome plated steel cutaway helmets with speakers in the top of each providing sound. The empty space below each helmet implies where a body would be. Taken as a whole, […]