studio visits/interviews

Rivane Neuenschwander’s viewer interactive art at the New Museum

By liz kelley | July 18, 2010 | 2 Comments

Go behind-the-scenes of the New Museum’s “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other.”

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Weekly Update – Business works at Bridgette Mayer

By roberta | June 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

Shepherding a commercial gallery into adulthood requires the faith of Job and a will of steel. Bridgette Mayer Gallery on Washington Square North, 9 years old this year, is about to catapult itself to adult status with a move early in 2011 to a much larger space and expanded exhibition programming that includes museum-quality shows, [...]

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Seduction, revulsion in L.A.–Studio visit with Cynthia Minet

By libby | June 22, 2010 | 7 Comments

The Brewery in Los Angeles used to be a Pabst brewery; now it’s a complex of old brick buildings–22 in all, some dating to 1888–on 23 acres of concrete grittiness, punctuated by a monumental chimney. But behind the brick and concrete walls and expanses of concrete and parking  is a beehive of about 500 artists [...]

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Wrestling with chaos – Rob Matthews’ new work at Gallery Joe

By roberta | June 13, 2010 | 0 Comments

Rob Matthews has always explored dualities in his subject matter — good and evil, faith and doubt, death and life, transgression and forgiveness.  Right now there’s a duality in his studio practice as well. Two bodies of work at Gallery Joe (one in ink and chalk and the other in graphite) are both in the [...]

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My Tidal Wave Dream – Interview with Kara Hearn

By guest writer | June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment

Post by Rachel Reese Recess Activities, Inc. is a (relatively) new residency program located in New York City’s Soho neighborhood – a storefront space at 41 Grand Street.  Committed to providing a free working and production space, Recess residencies are unique in that they are open to the public allowing for collaboration and accessibility to [...]

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Theory talk with Aaron Levy, Slought’s boss

By libby and roberta | June 7, 2010 | 3 Comments

We met Aaron Levy over coffee a while back to talk about theory. Levy, if you don’t know him, is the executive director of Slought Foundation, the gallery and event space with intellectual chops just on the edge of the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.  He’s also a curator and, what we didn’t expect [...]

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Speaking of Secrets – Interview with Leonard Nimoy

By guest writer | May 30, 2010 | 0 Comments

Post By Corey Armpriester Secrets – we hide them, we share them, and Leonard Nimoy photographs them. His new photographic series titled “Secret Selves” explores the concepts of the lost, hidden or fantasy self; he’s documenting each sitter’s attempt to search for the other part of themselves that were forcefully separated by a cruel sword [...]

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Studio visit: Jeffro in love

By libby | May 2, 2010 | 6 Comments

Jeffro Kilpatrick was planning to propose to his sweetheart, Joannie, at his May 7 opening at Fishtown’s Proximity Gallery. But that seemed too public. “I don’t know if I want to put that much of myself out there,” he said during an interview at his studio last week. Besides, he suspected Joannie had caught a [...]

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Studio visit: Colleen McCubbin Stepanic

By montana torrey | April 13, 2010 | 0 Comments

Colleen McCubbin Stepanic’s work ruminates on the universality of form, from rock formations to the modern home. Her current exhibit at The Painted Bride, “Home”, is a meditation on the challenges of the housing crisis. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Colleen at her studio at the Crane Arts building to see [...]

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Bonne Année : Rick Tulka

By matthew rose | December 31, 2009 | 1 Comment

Rick Tulka, Paris-based artist and illustrator best known for his on-the-spot sketches of flâneurs burning daylight and washing back kirs at Le Select, the famed café on Boulevard Montparnasse, offers a self-portrait greeting for 2010. Yes, that was him, penciling in your double chin last Tuesday! Only kidding. Bonne Année… See his site here: Rick [...]

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