Drawing with images of architecture and landscape, I make pieces that survey peripheral and everyday spaces. Sometimes these spaces, and the things in them, are overlooked, or literally stepped over, such as weeds in the sidewalk. Sometimes, like sale banners or fast-food signs, they are ignored because of their ubiquity. Through a process that starts […]

Gary Snyder Gallery: At first glance, one would be hard pressed to find a clear and common theme linking the artists that we are representing at Gary Snyder Gallery, especially if you were to look for the common theme in the actual work of the artist. But I do believe that the artists have things […]

An erstwhile acquaintance of mine once asserted that if art doesn’t concern itself with presenting something beautiful to the world then artists have fallen to the level of bad philosophers.  Does this suggest then, I wondered, that an artist producing beautiful work is automatically a good philosopher?  Or does it imply that the only real […]

When Sigmund Freud published “Little Hans,” the first-ever psychoanalysis of a child, he elicited both worldwide accolades and condemnation for revealing the sexual lives of children. His 1909 case study branded Freud’s iconic reputation and laid the foundation for child psychoanalysis. In September 2011, writer/director David Pilot brought the historic case to the stage at […]

It is often said of pictures that they open a window to another world. The images created by Japanese artist Wataru Matsumura construct their own worlds. Leon Battista Alberti made the window metaphor famous in the 15th century in relation to the use of perspective, but Matsumura’s drawings make no use of this device. They […]

In his new exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery on Fifth Avenue, the distinguished American poet John Ashbery again succeeds in revealing his visual sensibilities through new collages. It was as recent as 2008 that the poet made his debut as a visual artist at the gallery. Now with collages with names like Promontory, […]

Art Foundations are a dying breed.  They’ve been under threat from conservatives for everything from wasting taxpayer’s money to anti-religious sentiments.  FAPE –  The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), is leading the way for how they can continue to thrive in the 21st century.  This past October FAPE honored Ann L. Gund, […]

Faga’s work bridges the gap between performance, photography, installation, and design. In this new series, On the Way to Chroma Green, Faga explores the increasing influence of globalization on seemingly disconnected rural Indian villages. As part of an artist residency program funded by the Kaman Art Foundation, Faga traveled to the small village of Andore […]

Viewers expect photography to portray the outer world, and with greater accuracy than other media. But the best fine art photography expresses the photographer’s inner mind. In Berlin this summer, the photo-text-music-video installation Seelenbilder und Landschaften (Landscapes as Artist’s Metaphor) at Galerie Christian Glass, presented three international fine-arts photographers who portray real, recognizable imagery in […]

  Pieces, scraps, traces, curious clues, strange evidence left behind…In the last few months I have been painting a series of investigative works on paper. The focus of these images being just that: investigating what remains, be it actual physical refuse or simply my own remembrances. “Although many of these works are devoid of human […]