Ian Cheng Stills from “This Papaya Tastes Perfect” “IT’S 2011. THE TWIN TOWERS OF REASON AND TASTE STILL SHINE DOWN UPON ALL POSITIONS. BUT SOMETHING ANCIENT LURKS. I remember now. Somewhere in the dark between Wall Street and Chinatown. A crowd of futures traders gathers outside a bar to watch something. Something alive. The exhibition […]

Eyal Gever Work from his oeuvre. “I am influenced by the destructive impact within our environment. Uncontrollable power, unpredictability and cataclysmic extremes are the sources for my work. They inspire, fascinate and remind me of the constant fragility and beauty of human-life. Beauty can come from the strangest of places, in the most horrific events. […]

Keith Lea Work from Banner Series. “The Banner series deconstructs our culture’s use of politically charged language to influence others. “Freedom,” “Progress” – these are words which those in power use uncritically to sell their goals and lifestyles to the masses. When given the sentence fragment “Freedom From,” the viewer is encouraged to consider what […]

Derek Larson Work from Commonwealth. “Commonwealth is an immersive installation of a dilapidated sculpture garden of projected video statuary, presenting a virtual likeness to a grand garden and questioning its function as a common space. Commonwealth is a response to Federica Bueti’s article Give Me The Time in which she states “satisfaction of temporary desire […]

Evan Roth Work from Propulsion Paintings. “…His approach and work process takes inspiration from the free software movement and hacker ethos. The “hack”, a term stemming from early computing culture, describes a clever (often playful) intervention into an existing system that alters the intended purposes or meaning. Like the judo fighter using his opponent’s weight […]

Sara Ludy Work from Rooms @ Klaus Gallery. “The latest in her series of “Space Portraits,” Sara Ludy’s new video “Rooms” shows the artist’s spatial explorations of models from Google’s SketchUp 3D Warehouse. An ominous synthetic soundtrack accompanies Ludy’s ethereal manipulations of architectural space. Her interest in the creative constraints of “defaults” of both architecture […]

Florian and Michael Quistrebert Work from their oeuvre. “For their solo exhibition Brothers of the Shadow, Florian and Michaël Quistrebert present a series of small-format paintings and a video that invoke incisive geometrical forms, architectural structures and experimental imagery. In the Quistrebert brothers’ oil-based paintings, the black surface of the canvas is slightly scratched in […]

Paul Chan Work from The 7 Lights from his exhibition at the New Museum. The videos and drawings from the exhibition can be seen here. “This exhibition marks the American premiere of Paul Chan’s complete series “The 7 Lights,” offering a unique occasion to explore the practice of a New York-based artist whose work engages […]

Ryoichi Kurokawa Work from Octfalls. “Each presentation of young Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa‘s audiovisual installations awes us more than the next. His precise ability to arrange sounds and images makes for a flawless performance from start to finish. We often feel like we’re facing an orchestra playing an expertly arranged and immaculately performed symphonic masterpiece […]

Sabrina Ratté Work from her oeuvre. Ratté has an exhibition opening today at http://www.bubblebyte.org. I suggest you check it out. “My videos are often the result of experiments with tools and softwares that anyone can have access to. The challenge is to find ways to use these tools in order to create new forms and […]