Kris Scheifele: To call you a multimedia artist is an understatement. Online photos don’t do justice to how intentionally dense your work is, not only in the breadth and depth of your materials and techniques, but also in the way your practice is a kind of cannibalized familial gene pool. For instance, your paintings have […]

Justin Mortimer’s paintings reverberate with a fore-knowledge of Baconian flesh and torpor, and that quintessential Freudian cogency and mass that forever changed the idealistic template of the figure in painting into an expression of a post-God mortality. For both twentieth century artists, a delicious glut of adjectives are to be found, as there are when […]

Irena Jurek: You are an ardent collector of pop cultural ephemera. The lines between your art and collecting often blur. Did your interest in art as well as collecting develop simultaneously or did one precede the other? Brent Birnbaum: Certainly. I was collecting and saving things before I was making art. I just knew I […]

Once a mark exists on a page, for the most part that’s it. Erasing can make the pigment seem to disappear, but the impression the drawing implement has left on the surface remains. It usually cannot be moved around. Usually. Adam Fowler’s exhibition of new work titled Escaping Forward at Margaret Thatcher Projects offers one […]

The relationship of art’s influence on architecture and vice versa is a phenomenon that grows steadily stronger as the fields continue to grow closer and closer together. The ambitions of leading figures in either field are constantly pushing them to find new ways to express their increasingly complex ideas, which often means bleeding over the […]

In the past half hour, chances are you’ve noticed something about sound—friends interrupting each other, cell reception breaking up, a noise you thought came from your home that in fact came from the apartment below. There are a lot of strange things happening in our sonic universes. But what happens when you render sound tangible? […]

What happens when you turn a house into a gallery? This is what Jane O’Neill explores by way of essays in Austral Avenue: An experiment in living with art, which was recently published with Emblem Books. Austral Avenue was a house in Brunswick, Melbourne that O’Neill turned into an independent gallery with the goal of […]

The roster of exciting new films was released for this year’s New York Film Festival earlier this week, and it seems the festival is beginning a promising start to it’s second half century. Now in it’s 51st year, the NYFF will screen selections from both young up-and-coming filmmakers, as well as new work from directors […]

Charlotte Meyer: Your work has incorporated, and mainly been shot in the Israeli landscape. Your ideas have included raising something, a tractor from the earth in your most recent film elevating your father onto a high platform in your 2009 video 50 Blue, and saving somebody, as in the hanging entangled parachutist in Nothing New […]

A rainbow opens like a pink-red mouth across the sky. A man crouches in front of a lit-up fridge like it’s an oasis of light in the dark room. Light like yellow sweat is drying on a man’s face. In a self-portrait, Kim sticks out her tongue and a wave of reflected light fans out behind her […]