Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Peter Garfield

It was about ten years ago that Peter Garfield began taking photos of houses falling out of the sky.
Blurry, at times lacking in basic composition and focus, Garfield’s work appeared to be a collection of impromptu snapshots in the tradition of UFO photography more than any kind of gallery art. Part of Garfield’s method is [...]

Review - Milk Teeth by Julie Morstad

As presented in “Milk Teeth,” there’s no denying the talent of Vancouver artist Julie Morstad. Her thin and busy line work moves like a thread through her drawings, fashioning images witty and precious and grim and affected.
Morstad’s wit is a surrealist one of floating heads, millions of bees escaping from a girl’s ear, and children [...]

Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer has made text the focus of her art for the last three decades, with a mischievous inclination towards the use of public spaces as part of it — her work has appeared on signs, stickers, and T-shirts.
One of her most famous works is her compilation of truisms — simple statements that she displays [...]

CarianaCarianne interview

A lot of artists study the idea of duality, but none so close to their own lives as CarianaCarianne.
CarianaCarianne are artists whose canvases are not the usual ones — nor are they necessarily tangible. These artists are in collaboration as an artist, the idea being that two people share one body and create work examining [...]

Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge interview

Last week, artist and musician Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge died of heart failure in her Brooklyn home. Jaye was married to legendary musician Genesis P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and she collaborated with him on music and art projects. The most notable of their work together was on a being known as Breyer [...]