Mark Sengbusch is a painter, curator, and Sudoku Master living in New York City. Jeffrey Scott Mathews is a painter, writer and musician based in Brooklyn. They met in Detroit, in 1997 at College for Creative Studies. They later studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art where they picked up on a dialogue that will carry […]

Jim Gaylord, Call on the Carpet, 2013, gouache on cutout paper, 36 x 50 inches courtesy of the artist and Jeff Bailey Gallery   CHRISTIAN MAYCHACK: I was thinking about the title of your last show with Gregory Lind, Skipping Over Damaged Area, and about that sort of technological breakdown that happens with the damaged […]

William Crump, Rise After Rise Bow the Phantoms Behind Me linen, brass, glass, gouache, flashe, wood frame, various dimensions, 2012 Leah 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? […]

After much duress and rhetoric, Fountain by Duchamp as lowly as it once appeared, has been chastened by Meister Eckhart, who proclaimed: “And behold! All in One.”  Not merely a gaff of raw Dadaist vulgarity, but a heightened amplification usurping the serene bypass taken by artists on the aftermath of Duchamp’s storm of acrimony. R. […]

Rex Bruce is the founder and director of the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. He took some time earlier this year to share some insight with NY Arts about the vitality of the L.A. art scene. I was introduced to computer technology from an early age: my father was a programmer in the late […]

Tofer Chin’s solo booth as presented by Lu Magnus Gallery at the Untitled Art Fair Amongst the extensive list of fairs exhibited at last week’s Art Basel, an underdog outshined the competitors with its fresh take on environmentally-minded art. Untitled, directed by curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud, made its debut this year by setting up camp right […]

Image courtesy of Masha Froliak Entering the darkened auditorium of the Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall served as a perfect setting for Karlheinz Stockhausen’s OKTOPHONIE. The audience was immediately invited into a mysterious world where the musical and the visual combined to take one on a meditative journey. As a pioneer of electronic music, a […]

Kevin Sudeith, Chandra Observatory over Winter Wheat Fields; November 2010; Rim rock capstone (collapsed), carving, 21 & 23 carat gold leaf, varnish; 16″x12″; Sumatra Hills, Montana. Kevin Sudeith practices the oldest extant art form—petroglyph carving—an unusual direction for a contemporary artist whose training includes an MFA from SVA, a BA from San Francisco Art Institute, […]

Hearing the guitar riff toward the end of Boston’s 1976 rock song “Peace of Mind” from a passing car radio the other day, I was a little surprised to find myself gripped by the sound, just as when I was a teenager and predictably compelled by such things many years ago. The musical gesture is […]

Leah 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? Marcy Brafman: I was always drawing.  The first thing I remember doing was drawing.  I always thought of myself as an artist even […]