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Leah Oates Talks Art and NYC with Judy Blum Reddy
Wednesday, 16 July 2014 09:01Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and what is your family background? Judy Blum Reddy: I wanted to be an artist since childhood. My parents fled Austria because of the war and I was born shortly after their arrival. As an only child, they were always very supportive of my whimsies. I went […]
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Environmentally Conscious Art Installations
Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:58Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl Carefully composed electro-luminescent strands are woven into large parasols that are able to offer shade in the heat of the day as well as provide a source of light at night. The light is emitted from a network of solar cells which are embedded in the canopy of these dynamic […]
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One Burning Question with Peter Demos
Friday, 11 July 2014 09:00Peter Demos isn’t afraid to trim things back. Using a strategically reduced color palette and limiting his language of abstraction at every turn, his work is hard-edged, bold, and easy to identify as his own. To someone who just came across the work, it may look quite compositionally homogenous. In this week’s One Burning Question, […]
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Debating the Darkness: Talking Film with Abinadi Meza
Thursday, 10 July 2014 09:00Matthew Hassell: Your work takes many forms from writing, to sound, to moving image. Is all of this part of one rolling, organically forming vision, or do you see them as separate pursuits? Abinadi Meza: Working across a range of formats lets me explore very specific aspects of the concepts and materials I’m interested in. […]
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The Life and Times of Luis Perelman
Wednesday, 9 July 2014 09:00L. Brandon Krall: You grew up in a cultured and affluent family in New York City, your mother was an editor at Look magazine and your father was a psychiatrist. Talk about your discovery of art, experiences as a child making collages from paper you mother brought home from the Look art department, and mazes. Also […]
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The Allen Ruppersberg Sourcebook from ICI
Tuesday, 8 July 2014 09:00We point kaleidoscopes at the light to examine the creation of forms. The Allen Ruppersberg Sourcebook: Reanimating the 20th century, is a similar contrivance. It’s the second sourcebook in a series by Independent Curators International (ICI). The sourcebook is made up of archival materials, which were influential to Allen Ruppersberg’s art, specifically over nine projects (1978-2012). […]
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One Burning Question with Rachel Rossin
Friday, 4 July 2014 09:00Rachel Rossin is a truly versatile artist who moves easily between energetic paintings to immersive, otherworldly installations. No medium is out of bounds as she works with everything from airport runway paint, to birthday candles, and even chicken eggs. In this week’s One Burning Question, we ask Rachel who she wants to start an art […]
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Escape to Art Hamptons Art Fair
Thursday, 3 July 2014 09:00From Cuba to Korea and Switzerland to Spain, this year’s seventh annual ArtHamptons fair—aptly titled “Escape”—will take art collectors and enthusiasts on a tour of established visual and performance artists hailing from around the globe. Among the featured artists is La Roc, one of the world’s first street artists who collaborated with Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, […]
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Solidified Dynamics: New Animals with Hadrien David
Wednesday, 2 July 2014 09:00Hadrien David is a philosopher by education. Therefore, for him, an animal form is just a pretext for a movement belied by the form. Sometimes his exploration gets through to us as an animal, and on other occasions it manifests itself as some other form of life. His concept of nature is lively and dynamic. […]
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Talking Mythology, Race, and Class with Michele Basora
Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:58Leah Oates: How did you become an artist and did you know early on that you would be in the arts, or did you begin as something else? Where there other artists in your family? Michele Basora: Yes, I knew I was an artist at a very young age. My uncle was a visionary artist […]