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 ►]
I was out of town for a little while last month, and one of the very first things I did upon returning a couple weeks ago—rather than engaging in the more or less logical act of unpacking my bags—was spend an afternoon doing studio visits with Oriane Stender and Don Voisine in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. [READ ►]
Keith Schweitzer of ART(inter) in conversation with New York-based artist Jayoung Yoon. KS: There’s a lovely connective thread along all of your work—the sculpture, performance, and film. I get a definite sense of ritual and meditation. The work is haunting, particularly the sculpture, as mysterious and ancient artifacts of a culture unknown to me. [READ ►]
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 ►]
I biked over to Anne Russinof’s studio a few days ago to bring her a painting and see what she’d been working on of late. It turns out she’s been working on a lot of new pieces at once, exploring a few new forms of compositional parametrics, and just generally infusing the world—per her [READ ►]
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 ►]
Last week I visited Karen Marston in her studio to get a preview of some of the works that will be in her forthcoming solo show, Demeter’s Wrath. It opens on May 20th at Owen James Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. While Karen and I looked around at her most recent paintings, we chatted about [READ ►]
Tom Butter and I recently took a little post-pedagogical field trip from Parsons to Tribeca to visit Bo Berkman’s studio. It so happened that the building I was teaching in that day—just as I was wrapping up my class, and therefore just as I was getting ready to meet Tom—was being evacuated for some [READ ►]
On the fourth floor of a fortunately yet-industrial, local-beacon-like outcropping on the corner of 2nd Avenue and 46th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is the NARS Foundation, an arts organization and residency program. During my recent round of studio visits there as a guest critic, I met with Gunilla Daga, from Sweden; Julie Trudel, [READ ►]
I visited Katherine Jackson in her Williamsburg studio yesterday to get a closer, more comprehensive look at her multifariously formal artworks in light and glass that are abundantly luminous on levels literal and metaphorical alike. While looking at, into and discussing a dozen or so of those pieces—some of which feature incised drawings or [READ ►]
