VS: Even though they look heavy, all the sculptures are suspended and thus have an ethereal, weightless quality to them. MR: We used foam for construction and wanted to elevate the sculptures to allude to a kind of rapture for the viewers. We wanted to communicate the idea of the cosmos as being open to […]

For his first New York City solo exhibition, Lundeen brings together seemingly disparate objects—from flags to rugs to posters to keyboards to grocery store dailies and magazine pages—into cohesive works resembling anthropomorphic masks. Neon-colored, kaleidoscopic patterns embellish six-foot tall cut out canvas masks, speaking to the artist’s fascination with the exaggerated theatricality of Coney Island […]

In The Dangerous Book Four Boys, James Franco is casting himself as both an artist and a writer. His book is a product of collaboration and a source of inspiration for his exhibition of films, drawings, photos, and sculptures. The Dangerous Book Four Boys explores adolescence, adulthood, sexuality, destruction and masculinity. Franco draws upon the […]

Peche, a bit of a scientist in her approach, sees nature as “the greatest source of creativity.” In her earlier work, she systematically explored the ever-changing structures and patterns of nature and its god-like effect on rock formation, trees, and leaves – all of which play a much larger part in our everyday lives than […]

Modernism dealt with focusing one’s attention on a specific genre. The hybrid notion of art was, generally speaking, a foreign terrain. I am not convinced that Modernism started out in terms of specific genres, but that is clearly the way it evolved, particularly in the post-World War II era. The focus was on an artist’s […]

“Sic transit Gloria mundi,” words written in burn marks on the white wall of Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma’s Enel Room. It is an epigraph that sounds powerful, dramatic and yet resigned. It is not easy for an artist to deal with decadence. I mean, working on a concept so broad as “The word is falling […]

The most exciting, moving aspect of these works is temporality of his brushstrokes; not relegated to one permanent space, his strokes are moveable. Estrada-Vega’s painting process allows him to supercede the academic dryness of a straightforward grid by adding an element of performance. In a time when others may be moving pixels around on a […]

Jason Stopa: One of the most striking aspects in these new works is the kind of back-lit illusionism that is present in the handling of the paint. It reminds me of Pollock in that Hans Namuth film, where he is painting on screen to create a certain liquidity. Your work references paintings’ reproduction via the […]

The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present “Watch Your Step,” a group exhibition of floor works including Grimanesa Amoros, Kiki Smith, Richard Serra, Polly Apfelbaum, Lynda Benglis, Patricia Cronin, Tara Donovan, William & Steven Ladd, Richard Long, Michael Phelan, Julianne Swartz, and Corban Walker among others. “Watch Your Step” examines the relationship of the […]

Törmälehto’s work stands out as an exciting combination controlled spontaneity and coincidences where stiff paintwork is applied lovingly against lighter marks. His irrational confrontations are embodied through a variation of “bad painting” techniques with delicate, beautiful strokes. Here the distinction between good and bad is delicate – if it even exists at all. The third […]