Inside Out

Bernar Venet

June 2013 Written by Shana Beth Mason

Bernar Venet is, by practical standards, a rule-breaker. Artists seem to defy logic as they bend light, matter, and even the invisible to their creative whims. Mathematicians and scientists, conversely, obey perceivable rules set by the quantities and measurements of these elements in the physical world. Venet has repeatedly crossed the boundaries of logic and [...]

Michael Lyons Wier

June 2013 Written by Katy Diamond Hamer

An interview with New York Gallerist Michael Lyons Wier, NY Katy Diamond Hamer: I’m familiar with your gallery by way of the figure. The figurative representation seems to manifest itself mostly in painting and painted surface—in 2-dimensional format versus sculpturally, although I know there have been some sculptural paintings that have been part of several [...]

Editor’s Letter Summer 2013

June 2013 Written by Terrence Sanders

“Art is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.” In retrospect how lucky am I to have witnessed the birth of Hip-Hop and Graffiti in the ’80s and ’90s in NYC? Waking up each morning to discover a new genius work, a fresh piece [...]

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Dan Fauci

When I received the assignment to write a feature about Los Angeles art collector Dan Fauci, all I knew was that he had recently had sold a number of Jean Michel Basquiat paintings. I assumed that any collector with works by Basquiat was most likely a “gold chip” collector. So, it was with great delight that I found Dan’s collection to be entirely different.

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Alexandria Smith

Alexandria Smith is a fresh voice. Her work, which features an impressive array of playful girls in the quest of youth, challenges as it alludes to deep and sometimes sticky wanderings, moving through shaded surrealistic voids and curiously assembled jumbled masses of brown limbs mixed with braided black hair that swings and leaps, as in What Astonishment Can Bear, 2012.

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Ramak Fazel

I’ve been a friend of Ramak Fazel’s for a few years now.

So first things first, and I want to speak directly to my pal as I know he’s worried, apologies in advance for representing you this way… I wonder if photographers tend to shy away from being represented in public; they almost always make for slippery subjects. Perhaps because a photographer knows more than most, just how much control they have over their sitter.

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Susan Silas

When Susan Silas decided to study art seriously, it was the late 1970s and a photographer she knew gave her a copy of Morse Peckham’s book Man’s Rage for Chaos: Biology, Behavior and the Arts. Contentious when published, it discussed how “art” began as soon as form took precedence over function. “But there was a funny little anecdote about attention,” Silas remembers. “It describes someone attending very seriously to something while a scorpion or spider crawls up his pant leg unnoticed and causes his demise.”

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Michelle Elmore

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. — Henry Miller We live at the edge of the miraculous. —Henry Miller

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