For Richard Serra, sculpture is not merely an object. And it’s most certainly not an object only to be seen. It is a means of searching, of allowing the viewer to walk into its enclosures, to feel its oppressions and releases even as its steel walls enclose and release. The viewer, therefore, must invade his […]

Kimberley Hart: This body of work revolves around an alter ego, conceived of in the hope of creating a complicated figure through which to address issues of identity and gender expectation. Before her emergence, I had been making works based on narratives from my own pre-adolescent tomboy exploits. While I was interested in the gender […]

Artist Wang Lifeng will exhibit his new show, The Great Ming Dynasty, at Red Gate Gallery’s Watchtower location from September 1 – 29, 2007.  His latest work debuts his new, innovative medium that both demonstrates his connection to traditional Chinese visual expression as well as his boundless imagination in searching for new vehicles for contemporary […]

I like to make simple things complicated. I joke and say this is the way I am as a person too. There’s a truth to everything. So, I like to say my work is about that, specifically, about making and looking. By making my work abstract, it reduces the levels at which someone can identify […]

Errant behavior, retribution and eventual redemption define the ingenious photographs in David LaChapelle’s current exhibition. The artist explores with humor, irony and imagination a spectrum that spans from socio-economic satire to religious and political commentary. In the monumental piece Deluge, American culture symbolized by Las Vegas undergoes Biblical consequences for bad behavior. LaChapelle stresses the […]

In terms of both its popularity and its many developments over the past decade, the medium of digital art has experienced a rapid incline, and, through his expertly wrought experimentations within this particular art form, artist and visionary Ric Globus has consistently made it look easy. It is for this reason that artist and curator […]

Like an endless labyrinth erratically winding and pushing towards new directions with no conclusive destination, Turkish artist Bedri Baykam transcends artistic progression. Developmental patterns do not exist within the artist’s prolific career; for Baykam resides in a world laden with gray, an environment in which x is y, and the very notion of dichotomies collapses […]

Austria is a phenomenon between definitions. As a geographical, historical and lingual expression of this, we might ask whether the art of the country also represents its dichotomies. Landlocked to the north by Germany and the Czech Republic, to the east by Slovakia and Hungary, to the south by Slovenia and Italy and to the […]

Artist, gay activist and iconoclast Charles Merrill is enjoying a prolific period of creativity by addressing his social concerns in his art. A move last year to Palm Springs, California, with its brilliant sunlight inspired Merrill to integrate aspects of Cubism into his latest work, particularly the use of form and bright color. Like Picasso […]

Chen Fei’s pink-skinned, sausage-bodied characters couldn’t be rounder, pudgier or more indulgent in the likes of food, material objects and sex. Each and every one of the aritst’s works makes a point to disgust and repel the viewer, yet each is also outfitted in baby pink and glossy pearls. To sum up the overall theme […]