The Museum of Contemporary Indigenous Art just opened “Life and Death: Expressions of the Everyday Life according to the Worldview of the Contemporary Mexican Indigenous People” which leaves us in awes with the artistic work of 13 different Indigenous Mexican groups and one community of artisans “Mata Ortiz.” These works allow us an opportunity to […]

Miami’s art community in 1976 was very different than today’s Art Basel-fueled frenzy. But when the city’s cultural leaders were brought together back then by pied-piper artist Martin Kreloff for the original “Miami Says ART,” little did they know as they looked into his camera and shouted “ART” that they were foreshadowing an art destination […]

Y Gallery is hosting a major show of Jose Tola curated by Cecilia Jurado and Aldo Sánchez. José Tola: An Anthology is a personal selection by the curators of Tola’s work from the two decades. This is the first solo show of Tola in New York and serves as a homage to an artist that […]

“Shades from White to Black,” John Hrehov’s recent exhibit at Denise Bibro Fine Art, presented ten of the artist’s charcoal drawings, each evoking his signature interest in the theme of man coexisting with nature. Hrehov uses shades of white, black, and gray, focusing specifically on urban settings – juxtaposing patterns onto the surface to represent […]

Katherine Daniels’s explores the archetypal ideals of gardens in paradise through beaded mixed-media sculptures, installations and public art. She creates immersive environments that heighten awareness of natural structures and through adornment and repetition her work is a meditation on our relationship to paradise as a setting physically and emotionally. Daniel’s body of work has an […]

Steffani Jemison, Jennifer Packer and Cullen Washington, Jr., have been selected as the 2012–13 artists in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Since its founding in 1968, the Studio Museum has held a strong commitment to nurturing and advancing the careers of visual artists of African descent through the competitive and prestigious Artist-inResidence program, […]

Jill Smith:  Your works have a mixed media style to them, using drawing, prints and painting all at once.  How did you arrive at working this way? Martina Reinhart:  I come from a background in painting and I used it to create abstract works, while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.  Then […]

I like the idea of mixing the personal portraits with the invented narratives. The way they are painted, coupled with the prominence of the portraits is intentional and deceptive, and at first viewing most people don’t realize the nature of the narratives until they move in and start looking at the pieces individually. The whole […]

Are there any upcoming artists who stand out to you in either the American or Chinese markets? Michael and Nicolai Frahm: There are a number of names emerging from China that we should certainly be keeping a close eye on. Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Wang Qingsong, Wang Guangle, Liang Yuanwei and Jia Aili are […]

I wanted to look back to the difficult years of youth. A time where one is trying to look away from their parents and create a personal identity. I went through this process, like everyone else, but not without problems. I did damage to myself since I was 12 years old until I grew up. […]