I have always liked the video style of artists like Jean-Luc Godard and Aernout Mik. All the scenes seem to be as ordinary as those from the daily life, but tiny dramas lurk in the videos. I love this quality of videography, which I cannot describe but strongly feel.   Chen Zhou I have always […]

My work is about leaving the playground. My work is about learning to sit down. My work is about learning to draw. I draw the tiles on the floor, one at a time. I draw them onto copper plates. I print them onto paper, one at a time. Then I draw again… I am finding […]

I came upon this body of collage work in early 2004, having been preoccupied with questions of lifestyle media’s “wish-producing dreamland” for quite some time, waiting for the idea to settle in the material form of an artwork.   Gabi Trinkaus     I came upon this body of collage work in early 2004, having […]

Roberto Kusterle is an enigmatic and fascinating figure. He combines fragments of classical mythology from the history of humanity with contemporary, more abnormal, bizarre ones. In doing so he brings alive a world of mutation that becomes an atlas of transformations. Francesca Alfano Miglietti      Roberto Kusterle is an enigmatic and fascinating figure. He […]

At the very core of my work is my interest in and passion for the visual culture of Japan. I often look through books and websites related to this traditional visual culture, and when I come across images that intrigue and inspire me, I try to learn as much as possible about them—the artists who […]

To start the new year in the first floor gallery, ICA is pleased to present Dirt On Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, significant work in clay by 22 artists spanning four generations on view January 16 to June 21. Ranging from modestly scaled pots to large sculptures, these objects cross a spectrum of conventional delineations […]

This group exhibition—which takes its title from the infamous 1962 book by Sven Berlin—explores the influence of folklore, mysticism, mythology and the occult on the development of British modernism. Berlin’s novel is a fictional critique of an artist colony. It captures the topographical forces that tether the dark manipulation of symbolic forms. Alun Rowlands curated […]

Contemporary art from Africa is thriving. Significant work is being produced in time-based formats of video, film, and related photography. The works that fuse medium and message most effectively address shifting notions of self and identity, home and exile, and transnational movements through space and time.    Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts curated Continental Rifts: Contemporary […]

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents the reinstallation of the exhibition Between Art and Life at the museum’s fifth-floor galleries. Organized by Gary Garrels, SFMOMA Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, the exhibition presents paintings and sculptures made in the past three decades, concluding with works by artists working […]

Bloody Beauty is a continuation of the 2007 work The Fabled Shoots. The difference in the current work is that it relies more on an entertaining orientation and goal, and less on a sermonizing, provocative kind of parody. For this work, I wanted to draw in the viewer with extraordinary beauty.        Su […]