Dike Blair (b. 1952, New Castle, Pennsylvania) uses gouache, oil, his own photographs, and strategies appropriated from Postminimalist sculpture to create intimate tableaux that transform quotidian sights and materials into exercises in formalism. A writer and teacher as well as an artist, Blair came up in the downtown scene of 1970s New York among…

Photo by Brad Trone Maja Ruznic (b. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1983) fuses personal narrative, psychoanalysis, mythology, and esoteric thought into vivid paintings that hybridize figuration and abstraction. Painting variably with oils and gouache on immense and small scales alike, she extracts order from layers of diluted pigment. Ruznic’s practice is…

Leora Fridman Leora Fridman is a writer whose work is concerned with issues of identity, care, dis/ability, and embodiment. She is author of Static Palace, a collection of essays about chronic illness, art and politics, Bound Up: On Kink, Power & Belonging,just out this month, and other books of prose, poetry and translation. She is currently facul…

Margaret Cogswell- In Mother’s yukata, giving presentation on my work in Japanese at the opening for my mixed media installation- Karasu to Issyoni Kaerimasyo: A River of Memories in Ichinomiya, Japan- 8/24/2024. Margaret Cogswell is a mixed-media installation artist residing in West Shokan, New York. Cogswell is the recipient of numerous awards, i…

Artist Portrait by Alexander Bedder Anthony Cudahy (b.1989, Fort Myers, Florida, US) received a BFA from Pratt Institute, NY in 2011 and completed an MFA at Hunter College, NY in 2020. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Cudahy is a figurative painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions he creates …

Pieter Schoolwerth. Photo by Jason Mandella. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York. Pieter Schoolwerth (b. 1970, St. Louis, Missouri) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He works in a multitude of mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, and video. Since graduating from the California Institute of the Arts in 1994, Schoolwerth has…

Torey Akers is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Hunter College. Her work has been featured at arts venues across the country, most recently in a solo show at A.I.R. Gallery in Dumbo, NY. Install image of “Besotted”, a solo show at A.I.R. Gal…

Sasha Sykes (b.1976) is an Irish artist with a research-based practice in rural Ireland, at the foothills of the Wicklow mountains. Her artworks and furniture pieces are hand made using acrylics and resins to explore, manipulate, and challenge the material language of the natural world through the embedding of plants, flowers, algae and fungi she c…

Louise P. Sloane (b. 1952) has been active as an abstract painter since 1974, infusing her works with personal text that motivates her own experimentation. The visual language of her paintings continues the legacy of reductive and minimalist ideologies, while celebrating color and the human inclination towards mark making. Sloane’s detail-oriented …

Howard Fishman is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times, where he has published essays on music, film, theater, literature, travel, and culture. His bylines have also appeared in the The Boston Glove, Rolling Stone, The Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, Artforum, San Francisco Chronicle, Mojo, The Village Voice, …

Jen DeLuna in her studioJen DeLuna (b. 1999), a Filipino and Colombian-American painter, explores the feminine through the lenses of affinity and vulnerability. DeLuna uses found and family photographs as the basis for her work, capturing the tension between movement and stillness, personal and public. Her figurative works in Dust and Sweat and Fei…

Sarah Brenneman (b.1975, Middletown, OH) lives and works in West Orange, New Jersey. She received her degrees in painting from Columbus College of Art (BFA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (MFA).She has had several solo shows including with Garvey|Simon at Artisan Lofts (New York, NY - a two-person exhibition with Gary Petersen 2024); Gold Sco…

Elias Wessel in front of his work series “Nostalgia” at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York.Elias Wessel is an artist whose conceptual work moves between photography, painting and site specific installations with moving images and sound. He has had exhibitions at 1014 New York (formerly known as Goethe House); Palais Beauharna…

Jack Arthur Wood in his studio. Photo by Bradley MarshallJack Arthur Wood Jr. is a visual artist, writer, curator and educator based in Ridgewood, Queens. Wood studied at Guilford College, in Greensboro, NC, receiving a BA in printmaking in 2012, and earned an MFA in printmaking from Texas A&M University—Corearned Corpus Christi in 2017. He has bee…

Martina Grlić (b. 1982, Croatia) was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia. She has exhibited at Fragment Gallery, New York, USA; Museum of Mali lošinj; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Kunstlerhaus, Vienna; Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China, and the National Museum, Gdanjsk, Poland. She lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.For …

Kejoo Park (B.1956, Daejeon, Korea) lives and works in Frankfurt and New York. She earned a BFA in Painting from Cornell University, studied at Pratt Institute and The Art Students League of New York, and earned an MLA in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University. Kejoo Park, a Korean-American conceptual and multimedia artist, utilizes a wide …

David Allan Peters in his studio, 2022.David Allan Peters (b. 1969 in Cupertino, CA) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA, and his Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA.Peters has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Galle…

David Anaya Maya was born in Bogot. D.C., raised in rural Colombia, and currently lives and works in New York City. After graduating as ‘Maestroʼ from Los Andes University in 2004, Anaya Maya has shown their work internationally and has explored an extensive range of materials, mediums and concepts. As an artist, curator, writer, teacher and art co…

Florencia Escudero's sculptures include soft and handmade components printed with digitally-rendered imagery. Feminist theory, cyber culture, and an embrace of various techniques such as digital photo collage, hand sewing, and silk-screening place each sculpture in the realm of both the machine-made and the handmade. As the artist notes, "When maki…

Areum Yang (b. 1994 Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in New York) graduated from Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea in 2017 and from the Hunter MFA program, New York, NY in 2021. She recently undertook residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has been included in group shows at Long Story Short, Los Angeles, CA; Analog Dia…

Raquel Rabinovich is a New York-based, Argentinian-American artist known for her monochromatic paintings and drawings as well as for her large-scale glass sculpture environments and her site-specific stone sculpture installations along the shores of the Hudson River.Born in Buenos Aires in 1929, she has lived and worked in the United States since 1…

Nana Wolke by Inna Svyatsky / installshots.artNana Wolke explores the nature of perception, focusing her attention on modes of apprehension of space and time. Her series of works usually begins on film-like sets, where the artist records the unfolding of staged situations and improvised actions occurring in spaces spanning across social hierarchy. …

Will Stovall (Ph.D. Yale University, 2018; M.F.A. Bard College, 2025) is an artist based in Washington, DC. He completed a dissertation on the institutional imagination of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. His paintings were the subject of a solo exhibition at Ulrik and have been featured as cover illustrations for Oxford German Studies and Semin…

Gail Spaien lives in South Portland, Maine. She earned her B.F.A. from the University of Southern Maine and her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. Spaien has received numerous fellowships including the Ucross Foundation; Varda Artist Residency Program; Millay Colony for the Arts; the Djerassi Foundation Resident Artists Program; and the S…

Michael Gac Levin was born in Los Angeles in 1984. The artist earned an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2015 and a BA from the University of Chicago in 2006. Yellow Brick Road, a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, took place at Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, VT in 2023. Gac Levin will present a solo show of new works at My Pet Ram in 2024, and will…

Michael Ambron is a painter and paint maker who works through wildly experimental and meditative approaches to making in order to hone in on a kind of overwhelming simultaneity of lived experience. From an investigation of and curiosity about one’s own perception, to the challenges and worries of living in uncertain and upsetting times, Ambron buil…

Portrait by Sandy LevyDiego Singh (b. 1982, Salta, Argentina) has exhibited his work at the de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso, Italy; Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil; Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy;…

Photo: Elon Schoenholz, courtesy of David Kordansky GalleryFor over four decades, Raúl Guerrero (b. 1945, Brawley, California) has made work informed by his experiences navigating cultures as an American of Mexican ancestry in Southern California. In his paintings, photographs, video, and performance works, Guerrero utilizes language and cultural s…

Alison Kudlow (b. 1981) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from the University of Southern California, a post-baccalaureate degree from Brandeis University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Studio Art. She has shown at galleries including Swivel, Parent Company, Field Projects, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Flux Fact…

Sari Carel, Portrait. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. Courtesy KODASari Carel is a Brooklyn-based, interdisciplinary artist and environmental activist. Her projects consider interspecies communication, nature and the built environment, and how the senses inform perception. Sari Carel participated in a KODA Land + Environment artist residency in 2021. …

Alan Belcher, courtesy of Hunt GalleryAlan Belcher's concept-based work is decidedly multi-layered and object oriented. He has been recognized in the past as an originator of a tactile fusion of photography and object-making. A transparency of vision and simplicity of fabrication with a concentrated regard for materials remain hallmarks of his seri…

Alexander Brewington (b. 1996, Silver Spring, MD), lives and works in Ridgewood, NY. He holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, and a BFA in visual art from St. Johns University.His work was previously included in the group exhibition ‘Departure’ at Thierry Goldberg. Brewington has been in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and his…

Marianne NielsenMarianne Nielsen crafts delicate ceramic arrangements, which expose the synthetic and psychological aspects of the natural world. Through the lens of botany and a naturalist approach, she produces an herbarium of gestural forms that preserve the liveliness of plants. In reexamining the still life genre, her works evoke the ephemeral…

Photo credit: portrait Melvin Way 1994, ARS artists rights society @ 2024 photo Andrew Castrucci, Melvin Way estate.This is an interview with the curator Andrew Castrucci.CO₂ Blues, scheduled since mid-2023, is the first exhibition of the enigmatic art of Melvin Way (1954-2024) since his passing, and the third solo show of his work with the gallery…

Polly Shindler (New Haven, 1977) received her M.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute and her B.A. in History from University of Massachusetts. She has shown throughout the U.S. as well as internationally at Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery in Madrid and Cristea Roberts Gallery in London. She recently had her first solo presentation at NADA Art Fair …

Natasza Niedziolka Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, NewYork/Los AngelesFor nearly ten years, Niedziółka has primarily worked with embroidery thread that she applies by hand to stretched canvas. The canvas functions as a support, manufactured by a machine with a regular horizontal and vertical structure, on which the irregular manual stitching of…

Armendariz was born in El Paso, Texas. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2008, Armendariz received the Artpace Supplemental Travel Grant for travel to Mexico City, and in 2013, he was selected to participate as the Artist-in-Residence in the Blue Star Contemporary …

Trudy BensonTrudy Benson received her Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in 2010 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007.She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria; Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT; SUNNY, New York; Massif Central, Brussels, Belgium; Miles Mc…

Debbi Kenote in her studio, Brooklyn, NY. 2023. Photograph by Anastasiya Shelest. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.Debbi Kenote (b. 1991, Anacortes, WA) has exhibited at galleries internationally, including shows at Kate Werble and Marvin Gardens in New York, Duran|Mashaal Gallery in Montreal, Cob Gallery in London, and Fir…

Jakub Tomáš was born in Jihlava, Czech Republic, where he lives and works. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and studied previously at the University of West Bohemia and the Institute of Art and Design in Plzeň, CZ.He has shown widely in the Czech Republic, with recent solo exhibitions at Oblastni…

C’naan Hamburger (b. 1984, Jerusalem, Israel; lives and works in New York, NY. MFA Painting Hunter College, 2023. BA, Tufts University, 2007.) Hamburger is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2023 and 2022, and the AXA Art Prize honorable mention in 2023 and prize finalist in 2021.C’naan’s work is currently on view at Ch…

Khalilah Birdsong (b. 1977, Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a visual artist who creates large-scale abstract paintings and installations. Birdsong has exhibited with galleries in Atlanta, Georgia, Cincinnati, Ohio, New York, New York and Hamburg, Germany.She has had solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Japan and …

Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Her recent projects prod histories of urban development with speculative fiction. Stern has exhibited and screened her work in the US and internationally, at venues including SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), the Museum of the Moving Image (N…

Elizabeth Heyert , photo credit Nina SubinElizabeth Heyert is an American photographer known for her experimental portrait projects. Formerly a world-renowned architectural photographer, Heyert established her reputation in the art world with her groundbreaking series THE SLEEPERS, THE TRAVELERS, THE NARCISSISTS, and THE BOUND.Heyert's photographs …

Tony Bechara, April 29 2018, ©Maku-LopezTony Bechara’s dynamic, color-saturated paintings create a pure field of physical perception. You can see a walk through of his show here.Each canvas is meticulously painted with multicolor areas of quarter-inch squares. Using strips of masking tape, Bechara arranges carefully formulated hues into a playful a…

New York based multidisciplinary artist Michael Dayton Hermann creates work that draws upon the inescapable bombardment of digital imagery to confront the familiar and examine the subconscious from unexpected perspectives. Hermann has exhibited consistently for the past 20 years following receipt of his MFA from Hunter College in NYC where he studi…

Vincent Donato Roselli (b. 1995) is a self-taught artist from Staten Island, NY.His first exposure to painting was graffiti, and he continues to incorporate old school street art methods in his practice. Vincent creates within a chaotic studio space, utilizing a variety of found substances from dust on the floor to old brush water left in glass jar…

Chase Biado, 2023, Photo by Ed MumfordChase Biado said bridging fantasy and art once felt off limits, as if he were “smuggling childhood interests into a contemporary conversation.” In reality, fantasy is a critical facet of adult life. “We're having these epic mythological experiences — in our heads and in our relationships,” he said. “But on the …

Dapper Bruce Lafitte (b. 1972 New Orleans) is a self-trained artist who began making and showing work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to commemorate the then-decimated street culture of parades and marching bands of New Orleans. He has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, notably at the Prospect Biennial, New Orleans, and in sol…

Mathieu Malouf"I am genuinely trying to make beautiful paintings. Not beautiful by contemporary standards of beauty, but something more atemporal or enduring. My paintings are not anchored in any particular period. I like art that is beautiful, even if that makes no sense in our era. No one discusses whether things are beautiful or not anymore. It’…