Tag Archives | Bushwick

View Inside: Liv Mette Larsen

by on February 5th 2017

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    I recently visited painter Liv Mette Larsen in her Bushwick Studio to have a look at some of her newest works before she ships them off to Asker, Norway for a large solo exhibition at Trafo Kunsthall. One of the particular joys of becoming acquainted with Liv’s work over the past six or [READ ►]

View Inside: Jim Herbert

by on September 10th 2016

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    I had the good fortune of running into Jim Herbert while I was out skateboarding around Bushwick over Labor Day weekend, and we got to talking about summer, about art, about shows, and about the then-yet-forthcoming season of new exhibitions. We also talked about how it had been a while since the last [READ ►]

View Inside: Erika Ranee

by on July 2nd 2016

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  I’d been looking forward to visiting Erika Ranee’s Bushwick studio for quite a while before finally doing so a few days ago, just a couple weeks after the closing of her solo show at LMAKgallery, Gasoline Rainbows. Erika showed me a few older pieces and some transitional work before we started discussing a number [READ ►]

View Inside: Jonathan Quinn

by on May 28th 2016

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  Yesterday I visited Jonathan Quinn in his Bushwick studio to have a look at lots of new paintings and photographs before he ships most of them off to Laguna Beach, California, for his forthcoming solo show at Townley Contemporary. While Jonathan shuffled through and showed me a wealth of recent works, some already partially [READ ►]

View Inside: Lars Kremer

by on November 28th 2015

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  Lars Kremer’s basement studio situated near Bushwick’s western border would be brimming all over with quirkily brilliant bodies of work even if its ceilings weren’t quite so low. When I last visited we chatted about obscure arachnids, symmetries and grids, controls and loosenings thereof, verbal pathways unto imagery, comically recraftable chairs, anthropo-ergonomic balloonery, and [READ ►]