Featured Artists

Simone Cappa on Suly Born­stein Wolff Suly Born­stein Wolff is a multi-faceted artist who works in a vari­ety of media, from oils to acrylic, draw­ing to water­color. She is a vir­tu­oso artist who has exhib­ited widely, both nation­ally and inter­na­tion­ally in venues as diverse as Flo­rence, Tel Aviv and New Delhi, India, and of course...
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Simone Cappa Oslo based artist and teacher, Aase-Hilde Brekke breaths a deep spir­i­tu­al­ity into the art world. Work­ing toward being an “impulse to change, cre­ative energy, inspi­ra­tion, and the flow good ideas” she brings her knowl­edge of Tibetan yoga into her pho­tos and per­for­mance pieces. The Photo “Evig”, mean­ing Eter­nal, from her “Mother India”...
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The sump­tu­ous paint­ings of Bar­bara Palka-Winek rep­re­sent a cross­roads of East and West. Draw­ing upon sources as var­ied as Ori­en­tal­ism, Byzan­tine art, and Myce­naean met­al­work, the artist also exhibits more con­tem­po­rary ref­er­ences includ­ing Art Nou­veau sym­bol­ism, and mod­ernist Abstrac­tion. Employ­ing a strongly styl­ized paint­ing method, the work is dis­tin­guished by lay­ered shapes and ele­gant...
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Some of the things I make are obvi­ously built for audi­ence inter­ac­tion—Eleven Heavy Things, the sculp­tures for the Venice Bien­nale, are objects that lit­er­ally have holes for peo­ple to fit their bod­ies into and pose with. Sim­i­larly, my Web site Learn­ing To Love You More (with Har­rell Fletcher) gives assign­ments to the pub­lic. Dur­ing...
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Reliv­ing, re-enactment, and remem­ber­ing form an impor­tant part of my per­sonal work. I am inter­ested in re-telling sto­ries that have been passed down, giv­ing impor­tance to past events that I played no part in but feel a con­nec­tion to through the expe­ri­ence of oth­ers. I often use stag­ing and re-enactment to blur the bound­aries...
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Cather­ine Y. Hsieh Hei­de­Marie Kull loves to travel. It is her trips to Africa, Jamaica, Haiti, China, Tibet, the Himalayas, and Nepal that have inspired her work the most. “My inter­est in dif­fer­ent cul­tures was strength­ened by par­tially adven­tur­ous jour­neys the con­ti­nents of our world,” Kull says. Whether it’s paint­ing, sketches, or pho­tog­ra­phy, she...
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Daniel Gor­don lives and works in Brook­lyn, NY. The other day I thought I saw a woman step on a pile of baby birds, but it turned out to be shred­ded card­board. Often I see peo­ple that I think I know who turn out to be strangers, and some­times I don’t rec­og­nize my friends.The feel­ing...
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Gilian Rappaport Con­sider the prospect of sus­pend­ing your imme­di­ate per­cep­tual real­i­ties in favor of a search for ulti­mate truth. Fur­ther, attempt to trans­late these inner­most thoughts and dreams into con­crete images of artis­tic real­ity. If any source can be coined as being the ide­o­log­i­cal birth­place of the fear­lessly exper­i­men­tal paint­ings of Matthew Lau­retti, it...
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French artist François Gef­fray is no stranger to new chal­lenges. Hav­ing explored a vast array of medi­ums from dig­i­tal art to paint­ing, his body of work is vast and var­ied. It was with this con­tin­ual sense of push­ing him­self in new direc­tions that he was drawn to the NY Arts Venice Pavil­ion, where his...
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Suzie Wal­she on Car­los Aquilino The epic works of Car­los Aquilino per­fectly cap­ture the con­tem­po­rary arts pref­er­ence for an all-inclusive, cre­ative per­spec­tive. In his work, Span­ish artist Aquilino deals with life’s sub­jects, events, moods and day-to-day triv­i­al­i­ties. Informed by an inter­est in the place of the indi­vid­ual within soci­ety, Aquilino is an unusual observer...
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