Nene Humphrey
Question: Your work is engaged with a number of different media. You have integrated conversations with neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux into performances using word syllables and breathing patterns. In collaboration with Roberto C. Lange you have worked with choral groups and video projections. how are dreams important to the development of your work? Answer: I’ve always […]
Andrea Belag
Question: On why I am not a gestural painter, or, am I? Answer: A gesture is one because it represents something, because it is concerned with a meaning. GESTURES, Vilem Flusser, Univerity of Minnesota Press, 2014, p 4 In my experience everything visible in an abstract painting establishes meaning within the context of the painting. […]
Heide Fasnacht
Heide Fasnacht has shown an abiding interest in states of instability. These concepts have been explored through drawings, large-scale sculptures, photo-based work, and prints. The aftereffects of historical occurrences (iconoclasm), risk economics (implosions) and geological processes (earthquakes & implosions) are revealed in fracturing and damage. Deforming and reforming reveals fissures: damage and contortions on the […]
Kathy Grove
Question: For many of us who have followed your photography over the years, the retouched images from the late 80s/early 90s are your most iconic work. Your fans have not had many opportunities to see much of your new work. How does your retouched photography from that feminist/appropriated period impact or inform your current work? […]
Laurie Fendrich
Question: I would like someone to ask me why, in an art world that loves fashion, entertainment and spectacle, and in an age that loves movies and social media, I keep on painting small abstract paintings. A lot of your paintings suggest cartoon animal shapes. Could you talk about this? Answer: Although I don’t aim to […]
Tim Spelios
Tim Spelios is a Ridgewood, Queens based artist and musician. In addition to his collage and sculpture work, he has performed extensively as a member of numerous bands and collectives. He founded Flipside gallery with Caroline Cox. Question: Your studio work ranges from collage to sculpture. You have also worked as a professional musician and […]
Tom Burckhardt
Tom Burckhardt is known for exploring the artistic process and subverting the boundary between representation and abstraction. Noting his avoidance of painting on canvas (preferring to use book-pages and molded plastic) and traditional art materials for his sculptures, critic John Yuan described Burckhardt’s aim as to “destabilize the grand tradition of painting and sculpture while […]
David Webster
David Webster is painter and sculptor whose work has been shown internationally, must recently at the Centre Pompidou. His art is in major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art. In addition, he was actively involved with the Guerlain Foundation for many years, both curating shows and advising on purchases of work, many of which […]
Rico Gatson
Rico Gatson is an object maker inspired by Conceptualism and Performance Art who utilizes a variety of media; painting, sculpture, video and installation. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Question: You work in a wide variety of media to generate art of immense visual appeal that lead viewers to confrontations with complex and […]
Kate Gilmore
Kate Gilmore is known for her physically demanding and darkly humorous videos that explore themes of the outsider experience, female identity, displacement, desire, and defeat. Gilmore is the sole protagonist in her performance-based videos, which often involve the artist subjecting herself to daunting and uncomfortable tasks. In Star Bright, Star Might, the artist attempts to […]
