Contemporary design compresses the problems of quantum physics into domestic space.  In Lightspeed, a show opened September 7th at the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, California, Oregon artist Trygve Faste explores the kinetic architecture of such transformations. His work experiments with the way lines organize space dimensionally, how angles catch and refract light, and […]

Long Standing is Rachel Beach’s second solo exhibition at the Blackston Gallery, presenting a collection of new works exploring themes of balance and illusion. Featuring: Rachel Beach Long Standing September 8 – October 27, 2013 Blackston Gallery 29C Ludlow St, New York City blackstongallery.com

  Cynthia Daignault’s large format paintings utilize vast expanses of sinuous mark-making as fields within which to play with our notions of perception and light. Feauturing: Cynthia Daignault Which is the Sun and Which is the Shadow? September 8 – October 20, 2013 Lisa Cooley Gallery 107 Norfolk St, New York City lisa-cooley.com

Each year the DUMBO Arts Festival seeks to highlight Brooklyn’s commitment to and presence in the arts community by presenting the best in local, national, and international art amid the breathtaking backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline. DUMBO Arts Festival September 27-29, 2013 Multiple Locations DUMBO, Brooklyn dumboartsfestival.com

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 […]

I was born in Switzerland and have lived in Italy since 1984. In 1999 I started to show my paintings in exhibitions held in Italian cities such as Turin, Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, and several others. According to art critics my works have a strong evocative power, sometimes recalling detached frescos, maybe due to my […]

My art is relational. I have always been fascinated by creation myths and I perceive the universe as having evolved from one catastrophic event. From one point, everything emerges, with the best scenarios trying to rush to completion. I’m drawn to experimenting with combinations of elements, sometimes alluding to air, earth, fire, and water. I […]

My abstract works arise powerful and expressive in thoughtless painting. The perspective of my mosaic-type arrangement of shapes imparts depth to the paintings and draws the eye to the very center of the picture. These windows seem to keep gloomy secrets. kunstmalerei-schulz.de          

With raw materials such as canvas, smoke, and tarnished metal, Subkoff alludes to developments as disparate as Cave Painting and Arte Povera while embedding it in a more contemporary dialectic. Daniel Subkoff August 1 – September 8, 2013 James Fuentes Gallery 55 Delancey Street jamesfuentes.com