Christopher French
An Interview with Janet Goleas – Christopher French creates minimalist abstractions infused with memory, light and a degree of perception that extends beyond sight. His radiant geometries reference a landscape of light and shadows in precise compositions. Layering pigment in thin veils, French crisscrosses shafts of color as they traverse the image field in crystalline tonalities.
Curtis Mitchell
It is said that Warhol once said, “I just happen to like ordinary things.” This is not something one imagines Curtis Mitchell saying. When Mitchell has his way with ordinary things, objects purchased in the day-to-day transactions of consumer culture, he is using them to forcibly recant the adamantine grip of kitsch upon American society. Often times, […]
Dahlia Elsayed: Words to make maps by
A day in the studio begins for Dahlia Elsayed with the un-redundant technology of carbon paper. Sitting at a small ribbonless 1970’s typewriter Elsayed will free-write whatever comes to mind. The mechanics of the operation are that invisible sentences (remember, “ribbonless”) wind out across the blank page as Elsayed selectively depresses the keypads and, responsively, […]
Fariba Hajamadi
Fariba Hajamadi has been involved with making photographs for more than three decades. Her Brooklyn studio, the place where she currently works is also the site of her back catalogue. On a daily basis she confers with this sedimented archive of photographic technologies and histories that have shaped her studio practice. Making, as in manufacturing, […]
by Kathy Shorr
New York based photographer Kathy Shorr is traveling the country for her project SHOT to photograph 100 shooting survivors. http://shotproject.org/#story
Venice Biennale Sunset
In no particular order a selection of images from the 2015 Venice Biennale
Lenore Malen
New York City, Central Park. Four animals, a horse, a goat, a lion and perhaps a Dalmatian, make their way as a team, seeming to rappel without ropes, across a rocky outcrop of 450 million year old schist rock. The blocking of the figures evokes the dance of death scene from Bergman’s The Seventh Seal. […]
No crime scene here – studio visit with John Monti
Probably it is an effect of wallpaper in general? Perhaps all wallpaper offers the same all over, plenary sensation. Probably it is an effect of a whole room, floor to ceiling, awash in a relentlessly repeated pattern; no beginning, middle, end or visual exit. Strangely at the William Morris museum in London one does not […]
Three Curators, One Office Visit
What does it mean to do an “office visit” with a team of curators? With artists, at least with pre-post-studio artists, still by and large there is a place of toil. Such artists will lay claim to a piece of geography, a piece of real estate with doors and floors, their studio. With a team […]
Mary Carlson
In the year 306 Margaret of Antioch, then aged approximately 15, was brutally and cruelly tortured for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. The narrative of events varies from source to source but typically includes iron combs being used to tear her flesh down to the bone. Returned to her cell by her jailers, after […]
