I am always trying to observe myself through the leftovers on my plate, the records of my MSN chats, the strands of hair and flakes of skin on my sheets, my health card, my supermarket receipts, my nightly dreams and etc. These things all prove that I exist and that I have been there. From […]

My parents divorced when I was seven; it was a passionless affair that resulted in two distinctly different households thousands of miles apart. My mother stayed in my hometown of Akron, Ohio, so that I could continue my education at John F. Kennedy Middle School. She worked as a bookkeeper for a chain of restaurants […]

I remember my first time online well. It was my first year living in the United States and an acquaintance who was ordered to keep me entertained for a couple of hours sat me in front of a library computer, opened a browser window for me and told me to look up something… anything? I […]

The division of the soul from the body is an issue that has concerned great thinkers throughout the history of mankind. The understanding of soul, according to Plato, concerned an eternal system of pure and real knowledge with the potential of merging with the absolute, divine good. The body was a mistake, an obsolete machine […]

Sarah Dotts: Tell us about growing up and working as an artist in Dallas. What is the art scene like in Dallas and Forth Worth? Can you discuss some of the galleries, groups and curators who support contemporary art there? Jason Roskey: Well, I grew up south of Fort Worth, which is a world very […]

Since the now-famous Panty Hose Pieces brought her to the forefront of the African-American avant-garde in the 70s, Senga Nengudi has been making art that explores the human body in all of its changeable forms and movements. From her early, biomorphic sculptural works to her current, more interior landscapes, Nengudi, who has a background in […]

For two weeks in May, we were treated to the luminous brushstrokes of Gencay Kasapci’s acrylics on canvas, to Keth Morant’s subtle and playful sketches on paper, to the explosive fury in Vera’s Arutyunyan’s provocative and energetic abstracts, to the delightful Clifford Faust’s disturbing paper cuts of charming, voluptuous women feasting and feeding their desires, […]

A butterfly is an apt metaphor for “Eden’s Edge: 15 LA Artists,” a current exhibition at the Hammer Museum. Fluttery and vulnerable, the work is skittish and fragile; lovely to behold, with a trajectory that could only be described by string theory, it rewards close-up looks and far away ganders; clustered on walls like butterflies […]

Like the patriarchs of Pop Art in the mid-1950s, Alejandro Vigilante has had enough of painting for painting’s sake. Last year, the Argentine-born, Miami-based artist, who had been creating painterly abstracts for the entirety of his career, realized that he had something to say, and he wanted to say it with his art. Leaving the […]

A strikingly impressive mid-career retrospective of the artist Sky Pape’s work is currently on view at River Stone Arts, a 10,000 square foot gallery space in Haverstraw, New York, a small, arty blue collar town on the west bank of the Hudson river twenty-five minutes north of New York City. Pape’s work is widely exhibited […]