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A Little Corner of the Universe; A Conversation with Tom Zuk
When Virginia Beach-based artist Tom Zuk left his career as an architect in 2007 to become a full-time visual artist, the U.S. economy was not kind to him. However, the intricate level of detail in his work combined with a naturalistic world view has allowed Zuk to reach a level that affirms his occupation change. [...]
Editor’s Letter April 2012
Dear Friends, I’ve come to one conclusion: that everything is relevant, important and necessary. We are creating our destiny every moment of our lives. Our thoughts and actions define us. Being an artist, I understand everything one goes through as an artist. Why we must be creative. What it feels like to feed from inspiration, [...]
The Truth Just Sounds Different
The Truth Just Sounds Different
I mean if you really listen you can hear it
The unveiling of a spirit
See this platform in its purest form
is the opportunity to be
reborn, amidst judgment and scorn
Tony Banuelos
Behind the Green Screen
Tony Banuelos will be the first to tell you he’s a product of the modern age, having experienced everything through the Internet, television and movies. From an early age, Banuelos and his siblings were obsessively watching--and even trying to build--televisions.
Avery Lawrence
Moving Trees
“In the art world it could be considered cheesy to embellish a personal story too much,” Avery Lawrence says as we discuss the performance video piece and installation he’ll be opening in March at Heiner Contemporary in Washington, D.C.. “But in Moving a Tree, it was really important. It helped me understand the whole thing and put it into a context.
Joy Glidden
Champion of the Arts: an interview with the host of Art Index TV
Behind the scenes of every museum, gallery and non-profit organization are the unsung heroes of the art world. Arts administrators work endless hours for modest pay, finding sole gratitude in the fact that their efforts strive to make the world a better place. They are the unseen forces that push forward-thinking ideas into public consciousness.
Keith Duncan
Keith Duncan is one of the most under-recognized living artists in America today. He’s articulate, educated and unwavering in his prolific visual dialogue. He’s in his mid-career as an artist and is living among us anonymously in a housing project.
SOFTlab: Color, Coded
A few blocks from New York’s famed Flatiron Building, SOFTlab’s office gradually accumulates remnants of past projects like an architectural junkyard, albeit a rather colorful one. The work, like many young experimental architecture offices, delves heavily into new modes of design and making like parametric modeling and digital fabrication, but SOFTlab set themselves apart with their hyper-painterly site-specific installations that are simultaneously art objects and spatially immersive environments. We had the pleasure of speaking with SOFTlab’s Michael Szivos about their work.
Mie Iwatsuki
Mie Iwatsuki is a Japanese collector, writer, fashion model and curator. Her collection consists mostly of mid-career contemporary artists living and working in New York and parts of Asia. Her social milieu is collectors, models, artists, philanthropists, intellectuals and figures in the financial and real estate worlds of the USA, China and Japan. She curated my work at Freight + Volume gallery in New York, where I had a chance to become friends with her. I asked her to join me in this discussion for ArtVoices.
