Lina Iris Viktor Work from Some Art Born to Endless Night – Dark Matter. “…The second gallery is painted in deep ultramarine blue, emulating the ‘Blue Room’ in the artist’s studio. A meditative space is built within the gallery featuring Syzygy, Viktor’s first figurative canvas reflecting the aesthetic vernacular the artist has developed over the […]
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Grant Gill
Monday, 28 September 2020
Grant Gill Work from Primary Magic. “To be gay, at least during the time and place I came into my own identities, meant a varying level of removal from the heterosexual man. I have observed that the cause of this is for two reasons. The first, I must admit, is my own burden. It is […]
Vilhelm Hammershøi
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Vilhelm Hammershøi From top to bottom: Interior (1899), Interior (ca. 1903-1904), Sunbeams; Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams (1900), Interior with Potted Plant on Card Table (1910-1911) Ida, facing away. The artists’ wife turned into the walls, turned onto herself, floating in the intimate foyers of the home she shared with her husband. The Danish winter painted into the walls, breathing […]
Raffi Kalenderian
Saturday, 15 June 2013
Raffi Kalenderian Work from his oeuvre. “Working both from life and from photographs, Kalenderian features his friends in a series of intricate portraits. His paintings and drawings convey both an intimate moment between artist and sitter and a dreamlike detachment that places his subjects in a peculiar equilibrium between reality and illusion. Sometimes, the same […]
Bryan Dooley
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Bryan Dooley Work from Gold County Real Estate. “‘Gold County Real Estate’ ‘(Bud) …sorry, what a fox… funny, the most beautiful girls in the world are always on the street or in elevators, never get to talk to them, shy … my looks, never had confidence in them … overcompensating work syndrome… prove your worth […]
Viviane Sassen
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Viviane Sassen Work from Ultraviolet. Sassen’s work is on view at Danziger Projects until April 10th. “In this work she has established a visual vocabulary that is stylized, symbolic and mysterious. Her aesthetic combines a sense of childhood memory, where scenes are crystallized and highly saturated with color with a photographer’s sensitivity to the body […]
Daniel Gordon
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Daniel Gordon Work from Portrait Studio. “Brad Phillips – Hi Danny. Daniel? You just opened a show at Groeflin Maag Galerie in Zurich. I know you usually take a while to work on a single body of work – so what’s this body of work about? Daniel Gordon – Hey Brad. Yeah Danny is okay. […]
Ryan McGinley
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Ryan McGinley Work from Moonmilk. “McGinley describes his work as a journey, and his photographs form a ʻtravel logʼ which captures his experiences across the American landscape. This particular adventure pushed his troupe to new levels of bravery, testing the participantsʼ fortitude and endurance in hazardous conditions. McGinley recalls, “there is something prehistoric about a […]
Susan Unterberg
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Susan Unterberg Work from Doubletakes. “..In Double Takes, Unterberg begins to abstract her idea of portraiture. As the only small and intimate series, these works depict various precious objects and spaces. The reduced scale draws the viewer in, promising secrets through the mundane. In depicting things rather than people, Unterberg clearly takes a step away […]
Caleb Cole
Monday, 28 September 2009
Caleb Cole Work from Other Peoples Clothes. “At the heart of my work is a fascination with ambiguities and inconsistencies, an interest in how I go about negotiating areas of grey and how others manage to do the same. When I am in public, I watch people going about their daily routines alone; I wonder […]