I have the desire to achieve in my sculpture an accessible, spontaneous experience for the viewer that is bold, exuberant, swollen, but also exquisitely delicate and smart. I combine two mediums that seem to naturally accomplish this best: air and lightweight colorful fabric. I restrict the form with the stitches and seams, so that they […]

Marcin Cienski summons the intangible. Using old photographs, pictures from magazines, personal artifacts, and memories as source material, the Poland-born, Berlin-based artist creates lush, exquisitely rendered oil paintings that tap into our collective unconscious. His moody, sometimes sinister work fuses the ordinary with the unsettling. While the objects and scenes he portrays seem familiar, his […]

I was born in the 1970s in a small village in Shaanxi, where I spent a sometimes-gloomy, sometimes-happy childhood. As I recall, during my childhood, there was never enough food and we could hardly keep ourselves warm. There was also no electricity. The only fun to be had was listening to my grandfather’s stories. My […]

Afshan Ketabchi belongs to a new generation of Iranian women artists. They occupy a position in the art world, where the effects of globalization are evermore clearly apparent. The West has diverse images of Iran, between clichés of tyranny and despotism on the one hand, and wisdom and sensuality from One Thousand and One Nights […]

Catherine Y. Hsieh: Your recent body of work turns ordinary household routines into chaotic little disasters. This desire to dissect what appears banal—does it come from a rebel kind of character within you? If so, how often do you feel the existence of this character? How do you interact? Lee Materazzi: A lot of my […]

Diffused Fingerprints was made specifically for a solo exhibition held this past summer at the National Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. In fact, this “spatial” piece was tailored according to the space of the exhibition hall. The rectangular-shaped room is nearly 33 meters in length, 12 meters in breadth, and 3 meters in […]

Rhydal, seen here in detail, speaks to Glamour Trance. 21st-century Americans court oblivion in shopping, fundamentalism, hegemony, pedigree, capitalism, sugar, and fashion. The list is long. Calling to mind the protagonists of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels or Rita Hayworth in the film Gilda, the sculpture’s hypnotic sizzle is intoxicating. Glamour Trance freezes time and stunts […]

For her fourth solo exhibition at the Third Line and starting off the fall season, Golnaz Fathi presents a selection of light boxes and new works on paper. Fathi began working on light boxes in 2007 in an aim to take on a distinctive yet different approach to her works predominantly on canvas. This show […]

Sophie Hill: I find the idea of “portraits” through something material interesting. What inspired you to create the Symbolic Portraiture series? Jason Bryant: Well, as long as I have been drawing and painting, I have always been fascinated with capturing nuances and expressiveness of the human face, so naturally one of my biggest influences has […]

These images were printed in a self-published zine entitled Anywhere But Here. For most of its publicity, this is the description: “This zine and the photographs therein are the product of the necessary leave of absence I took from Brooklyn, NY during the summer of 2008. Sometimes you just gotta get away.” This statement is […]