Aubrey Theobald Work from Touch, Spring / Berührung, Frühling. “Spring appears to us percolating in waiting as an accumulation of subtle variations – shifts in green light, delicate flirtations, a moment of warmth on your cheek – unfolding in partial fragments, both fleeting and constructed.” It seems that a similar uninhibited, raw beauty delicately captures […]

Felix González-Torres Work from his oeuvre. “González-Torres was known for his quiet, minimal installations and sculptures. Using materials such as strings of lightbulbs, clocks, stacks of paper, or packaged hard candies, his work is sometimes considered a reflection of his experience with AIDS. In 1987 he joined Group Material, a New York-based group of artists whose […]

Sam Taylor Wood Stills from Still Life. “Still Life is one of the most classical works of contemporary art I know. It inscribes itself in art history with hardly any commentary. This is not just a Still Life. It is a vanitas, a particular type of still life developed in the 16th and 17th centuries […]

Colleen Plumb Work from Animals are Outside Today. “I began this project in 1997 looking at ‘fake nature’, wondering what substitutions for nature can satisfy in people. Looking deeper I began photographing real animals and how they can be a link for us to a world far from the reality and pace of contemporary life, […]