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Interview: Melanie Vote

by on March 16th 2016

Melanie Vote, Place Like Home (2008-16, oil on linen on panel, 26"x18")

Keith Schweitzer of ART(inter) in conversation with NY-based artist Melanie Vote.   KS: I’ve long admired your fresh take on a rather old fashioned artistic practice: plein air painting. How much of your work is painted outdoors? What is it about plein air painting that appeals to you? MV: For this show at Hionas Gallery [READ ►]

View Inside: Rosalind Tallmadge

by on February 27th 2016

All photographs by Paul D'Agostino.

  I visited Rosalind Tallmadge in her studio, currently located in Ridgewood, just days before she’d be packing up and shipping off a suite of new paintings to Detroit, Michigan, for her forthcoming solo show, Nocturnes, at David Klein Gallery. Rosalind had ten or so recent works to show me—abstract interventions on stretched silk or [READ ►]

View Inside: Brett Wallace

by on February 27th 2016

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  A couple days ago I visited Brett Wallace in his East Williamsburg studio situated in a recently converted minor factory of sorts down the block from ex-3rd Ward. The door to Brett’s chunk of space within this structure is the last on the right down a long hallway of one studio door after another, [READ ►]

View Inside: Rico Gatson

by on February 21st 2016

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  I recently had the pleasure of visiting Rico Gatson’s Bushwick studio as he prepares works for his forthcoming solo show at Samsøn Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. It will open this June. While looking and at and making installation-related associations among the artist’s boldly marked, abundantly bright, curiously meta-dimensional, and politically suggestive yet not overtly [READ ►]

Interview: Lampu Kansanoh

by on February 12th 2016

Lampu Kansanoh My Beloved Assistant Housewife

Keith Schweitzer of ART(inter) in conversation with Thailand-based artist Lampu Kansanoh. I first met Lampu Kansanoh when she visited New York last year. During my recent trip to Thailand, I had an opportunity to meet with her again. Her studio is located southwest of Bangkok in Amphawa, a coconut-tree and canal-lined district in the Samut [READ ►]

View Inside: Lawrence Swan

by on January 6th 2016

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  I recently visited Lawrence Swan’s studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to talk about and select pieces for Of Plectics, Swan’s forthcoming solo exhibition at Centotto Gallery, slated to open later this month. While discussing works and their conceptual and material geneses, we talked about halved squares, split mandalas, cursive pictograms, pictorial fluidities, implied symmetries, plans interrupted, [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 ►]

Interview: Arnold Mesches

by on November 21st 2015

Arnold Mesches “Self Portrait 9”

Keith Schweitzer of ART(inter) in conversation with artist Arnold Mesches during his current exhibition Arnold Mesches – 75 Years of Works on Paper, on view at Life on Mars gallery through December 20th, 2015.  KS: You were born in the Bronx but moved away as a child, spending most of your education and early career in California. [READ ►]

View Inside: Bill Schuck

by on November 7th 2015

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  I recently paid a visit to Bill Schuck’s studio, a crypt-like lair of curiosity tucked deep into the guts of uppermost Greenpoint. Schuck’s geologically informed, scientifically conceived, empirically iterative, and both temporally determined and grounded works involve meticulously calibrated machinery, gradual drips and capillary seepings of an array of inks, a range of mostly [READ ►]