Mie Yim
Ah, the dance. It’s been happening as long as I can remember. Believe it or not, I was doing very abstract work before I was doing my characters in 2003-4, so the history is abstract- figuration- abstract- to the present time; which is the synchronized dance of abstract and figuration in an amalgamated imagery.
Adam Hurwitz
In some ways my videos are an extension of my painting practice. They occupy a space somewhere between painting and video. Because they are non narrative and often looping, a viewer can enter at any time and spend as much time with the piece as he or she likes. The static perspective invites the kind of scrutiny that is more associated with painting than video or film. In that way I’m hoping they sustain a longer connection to the viewer than a video that has a discrete narrative arc or a beginning and an end.
tom mcglynn
Photography does kind of “skin the world” as Oliver Wendell Holmes said. Perhaps my own photography represents a dropped stitch in that increasingly seamless image map of the world.
Joanne Ross
As my eyes touch the surface of blurred images and reflect on bits, notions, and ideas, the pictures and all they contain become props for an unstable story.
David Humphrey
It was liberating for me as a young artist to see all artworks as rhetorical, or as social beings that want something. The language of painting is porous to so many crafted perspectives that parsing fake from authentic didn’t seem very rewarding and perhaps even got in the way of adventurous growth.
KARYN OLIVIER
My work often seeks to engage with multiple histories to reveal the fragmentary nature in which we learn about the past, and the impossibility of a universal or “objective” history.
Kay Whitney
I’ve come to think of art objects as the repository of accumulated gestures. It’s that notion that’s brought me to where I am with my work – making objects that offer evidence of the way they’ve been made. Their appearance is made denser and more complicated by merging what they represent conceptually with the way they’re fabricated.
Nancy Cohen
During the pandemic I’ve been thinking about the ravages of nature: illness and death, leaving this world, and conversely being isolated and trapped, as we all are these days. These opposing feelings bring escape to mind.
Cyrilla Mozenter
What does the work want to be? What is it calling for me to do? Do I dare? What needs to be turned upside down, inside out or backwards? If I have pre-conceptions, I subvert them. I want to be surprised. I am, though, looking for a quality of inevitability. (A lawfulness.)
Stephen Maine
Stephen Maine is a New York painter who lives and works in West Cornwall, Connecticut. His work has been seen recently at Odetta Gallery, Hionas Gallery, the Clemente, Westbeth Gallery, and Silas von Morisse Gallery in New York City, and at County Gallery (Palm Beach), Kenise Barnes Fine Art (Kent, Connecticut), Icehouse Project Space (Sharon, […]
