We wanted to showcase works of art created by young, eager artists looking to expand, analyze, and question the ideas of public/private. Using the dual existence of Ampersand, a live/work space, as a jumping-off point, we were interested in work that explored the conflicts, tensions, unions, and coexistence between public/private, in all its forms. Unsettled […]

The exhibition Marked features six young artists, Chino Amobi, Alison Blickle, Brendan Lott, Jenny Morgan, Reuben Negron, and Robin Williams, all taking hold of the figure as they represent and reflect their strong, fertile, and multilayered independent narratives. The artists in this show use various methods, from mark-making to layering materials and concepts, to forcing […]

My recent work deals with themes such as sexual perversion, as well as occult and Thelemic imagery and symbolism. There are also a lot of underlying themes of isolation, sorrow, and mangled senses of self. I try to convey grief and introspective mourning in poignant and relatable ways. Most of my work is narrative in […]

Success came late to Alice Neel. In the first 40 years of her career she exhibited only sporadically and generally in little known group exhibitions, or in small galleries allied to left-wing causes. Although outgoing and gregarious, she lacked confidence in her realist art at a time when abstraction was ascendant. Isolated in Spanish Harlem […]

At one point I asked myself, if the human body is 90-percent water, then what makes up the other ten percent? This question started me photographing people I knew in stages of submerging in and out of water. I’ve often used my friends as models in my experiments, so they are cautious when I make […]

Recently, I made some pieces for the Son of Heaven series and the Memory series. Son of Heaven is a series of some colored eggs. Memory is a series of oil paintings where the subjects are black-and-white photographs from my childhood. These works chronologically echo my previous pieces. In my work, the bird is a […]

Rashid Rana critiques culturally constructed, negative stereotypes of women through his work, whether in relation to the sexual objectification of women through the pornography industry, or in relation to how the burqa is worn and perceived as a political symbol in a post-9/11 era. In the Veil Series I, II, & III, Rana depicts an […]

The person that the artist knows best and can control the most is the self. The possibilities of self-deceit are reduced to a minimum and a control of the subject matter is presented to the gaze of the spectator. These sculptural works are not only about capturing an individual, analysis of expressions, strengths, and limitations, […]

Ceramist Beth Cavener Stichter’s recent series, On Tender Hooks, may at first glance give an impression that it’s intended to shock. Stichter’s intent, however, is to provoke self-examination through exploration of human psychology as presented in an animal form. On Tender Hooks forces the audience to question personal conventions and human nature as a whole: […]

I am in love with drawing, and I use my seductive technique to take aim at the way sexuality and nature is fetishized. My hybrid humanoid drawings tweak expectations of what is “natural” and “synthetic” about corporeality, desire, and the natural world. The intersection of opposing sensibilities activates my work; I craft images that are […]