Culture: Visual Arts
Xavier Veilhan: Ghost Landscapes
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Parisian artist, Xavier Veilhan, builds his work around a central theme--“the possibilities of representation.” He launched his “Ghost Landscapes” in 2002, as a collection of sea and cityscape images located throughout the world--that were meant to be viewed from a ...
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CAROL GOLEMBOSKI’S BLACK MAGIC
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
According to artist Carol Golemboski, “photography and magic are natural companions.” One could easily agree to disagree--depending on the medium in question, or one’s level of passion for the craft. Golemboski's exhibition, "The Illusionists" (featured at George Billis Gallery in ...
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Nick Turner’s Raw Beauty
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
East Coast artist and photographer Nick Turner is predominantly known for work that was sparked by way of a fascination with the motivations and desires of human nature. His latest collection, “Raw Beauty”, is a sultry portrayal of women and ...
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Lucian Freud
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Celebrated artist Lucian Freud passed away just weeks ago--at home, at the age of 88--leaving behind a life's work that has influenced countless visual artists and intellectuals. According to Fraser McAlpine of BBC, " portrait work always showed his subjects ...
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Gustave Le Grey: Sea + Sky
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Gustave Le Grey , a classically-trained painter, began his career as a photographer in 1847. Nearly a decade later, Le Grey received great praise for his mastery in obtaining an infinitely-perfect balance between the sea and sky. The result of ...
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Josephine Sacabo: Geometry of Echoes
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
It often takes only a glance at a photograph for it to communicate a story or prompt memories long forgotten. Josephine Sacabo’s silver-print collection, Geometry of Echoes, depicts a woman haunted, as if trapped in a sea of thought--while hidden ...
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IAIN McKELL + THE NEW GYPSIES
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Unconventional resumes are often times the most interesting, and that of British creative Iain McKell is no exception. His work as a photographer includes a wide range projects, from shooting Madonna’s first magazine cover, pre-stardom, to shooting a soon-to-be-released fashion ...
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Elena Lyakir, Quiet Skins
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Inspired by the beauty of nature, photographer Elena Lyakir achieves an intense sort of self-expression through her lens. Her collection, Skins, is composed of images of lifeless fowl in a quiet, apparently captive state. Hollowed eyes and claws outstretched, tagged and ...
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Jody Morlock, Hungry Eyes
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Gaze closely at Jody Morlock’s mixed-media collages of silhouettes and color, for they compose a brilliant focus on life’s daily encounters and thoughts--those fleeting moments we too often simply pass by, or that become tainted with noise. Hailing from NYC, ...
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Wes Lang: A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock N Roll
Friday, July 29th, 2011
Brooklyn-based artist, Wes Lang's drawings call to mind those high-school, study-hall days. Resembling pages of a notebook filled with macabre sketches of rock 'n' roll shenanigans and self-reflective doodles, his work somehow perfectly capture a feeling of a dark now. His ...
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Luis Gonzalez Palma
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Sepia-tinted images and Renaissance attire are only some of what defines the signature works of modernist photographer Luis Gonzalez Palma. Focused on the indigenous Mayas and mestizo people of Palmas’ native Guatemala, each image represents a cultural issue--captured by powerfully-haunting ...
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Anna Wili-Highfield
Friday, June 10th, 2011
A mythical Pegasus sculpted from delicately-painted archival paper, its skeleton a mere silhouette of hand-forged copper pipe, two have graced the store windows of Hermès in Brisbane. Each an empty shell, yet strikingly realistic, they were made by Sydney-based artist, ...
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Katharina Fritsch
Monday, May 24th, 2010
Katharina Fritsch is based in Düsseldorf. She represented Germany in the 46th Venice Biennale. Her selected solo exhibitions include Dia Center for the Arts in New York, SF MOMA, Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Tate Modern and K21 in Düsseldorf Postkarte ...
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Yago Hortal
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Born in Barcelona and living in Berlin Yago Hortal works in acrylics on canvas and paper.
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Paul Lee
Friday, May 21st, 2010
Paul Lee is a Brooklyn-based artist that has shown at 303 Gallery in New York, the Saatchi Gallery in London, The Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis and the Yvon Lambert Project Space to name a few.
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JULES DE BALINCOURT
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Parisian born, Brooklyn-based painter Jules de Balincourt was included in PS1's Greater New York exhibit in 2005 and then the 2006 Whitney Biennial. These paintings were part of his 2007 series "Unknowing Man's Nature". Untitled (Hunting Room) 2007 oil on panel 17" x 13 1/2" Not ...
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Nina Canell
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Nina Canell was born 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, and currently lives and works in Berlin. Selected exhibitions include Manifesta 7, Nought to Sixty at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Come Together at Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, What ...
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