The way objects and images are perceived upon a first viewing is far different than the way they appear after extended periods of viewing. Eventually, the things we see repeatedly begin to loose their initial meaning, and what we are left with is a kind of raw information. Numbness to the original function sets in […]

The first time I came across the work of artist Qiu Qijing was in the 798 district in March. While on one of my friends’ computers, I discovered a group of images of landscape settings under the exhibition title “Migration,” which gave me the urge to know this artist better. In terms of the size, […]

Fleetingness and fluidity are two aspects of nature that lure me to the subject matter in my landscape installations. A winter flurry can suddenly transport me to the interior of a snow globe, but such a moment can never be captured. It melts and disappears. Although sunsets and windy vistas enchant me, I build landscapes […]

In his new paintings, Beninati employs soft, luminous colors to create dreamlike visions of a world suffused with feelings of fantasy and nostalgia. The artist dissolves the boundaries between magical interiors and natural exteriors by filling the interiors with bouquets of flowers and vegetation. Outdoor spaces fairly reek of the beauty created by natural phenomena […]

In the mid-90s, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art broadened its commitment to contemporary art. At the time, only a few galleries and alternative spaces in Nashville offered venues for contemporary artists to exhibit. Artists-run spaces frequently came and went, and commercial galleries such as Zeitgeist and TAG were in their infancy. Against this […]

The exhibition “Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology and Contemporary Art” recently considered the current role of the senses in a time of transition—when it might be possible for technological advances in digital smell, haptic devices and embodied computing to begin to challenge vision’s long-held dominance over the other senses. The artists in “Sensorium” considered the ability […]

My illustration of this beautiful girl with a knife was created when DIF Magazine asked me to make an Illustration to go along with the psychological test: "How crazy are you.” Before I created this piece, I sat in front of a mirror and tried to take a pose that most clearly expressed craziness for […]

The Maccarone Gallery, which was closed for a year, reopened on Greenwich Street in a cavernous space with an uninspired exhibition by the German conceptual artist, Christian Jankowski. Maccarone garnered her reputation as an underground gallery by showing above ground social realism with the enthusiastic support of the Village Voice art critic, Jerry Saltz. The […]

The title of this exhibit organized by the British Council and the Capital Museum should be, “Cultural Détente in an Age of Delicate Official Cross Cultural Exchange.” To be fair, the show’s organizers were caught between a rock and a hard place—offending official sensibility would have resulted in no show at all, so the result […]

At the glass façade of one of the more exposed, storefront-like white spaces in Chelsea, springtime gallery goers found themselves window shopping a colorful collage of rare and eclectic examples of early 90s cassette tapes, and right alongside a decent number of felt warrior characters reminiscent of Jim Henson’s The Labyrinth or of the Nickelodeon […]