Press | December 16, 2016

Alessandro Gallo in CoArt Magazine

Alessandro Gallo’s For Some Reason I don’t know if the Bloodhound Gang song “The Bad Touch” was popular in Alessandro Gallo’s native Italy, but gazing upon his For Some Reason (2016) solo exhibition’s stoneware sculptures makes me think of that track. I’m referring, of course, to the main chorus of the piece, the stanza “You and... read more
Press | December 15, 2016

CBS SUNDAY MORNING with BEN VENOM

A collision of quilting and rock music Faith Salie introduces us to the work of a music-loving artist on what you might call the FRINGE: “I like this machine,” said quilter Ben Venom, “because once it gets going, I liken it to shooting a machine gun. When it’s at full throttle, like R-R-R-R-R!” Sit down... read more
Press | December 9, 2016

Interview with Aron Wiesenfeld

EERIE, DARK BEAUTIFUL & MOODY, WE CHATTED TO ARON WIESENFELD ABOUT HIS QUEST TO UNDERSTAND OUR SENSE OF BELONGING AND HOME Your works are beautiful – talk us through your process, how do you create them? Thank you! My paintings often start from the mood of a certain place that appealed to me. I do... read more
Press | November 18, 2016

Brett Amory at Ft. Wayne Museum

BRETT AMORY’S “AMERICAN MONOLOGUE” AT FT. WAYNE MUSEUM OF ART Nov 05, 2016 – Feb 26, 2017 Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana In his new body of work at Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Brett Amory illustrates his ideas and musings about Fort Wayne. Indiana has been dubbed “the crossroads of America,” and Fort... read more
Press | November 1, 2016

PRØHBTD Interviews Glenn Barr

Artist Glenn Barr Takes You to Another World By David Jenison “Fiction,” says Detroit-based artist Glenn Barr. “Written on the page or visualized on celluloid, there has always been a narrative that exists parallel to our own. A counter culture. An invisible world.” Barr—an artist and graphic novelist (D.C. Comics’ Brooklyn Dreams) who was part... read more
Press | October 26, 2016

Masakatsu Sashie on The Creators Project

Katamari-Esque Paintings Lift Debris into the Sky Diana Shi October 24, 2016 The disarray of modern life takes shape in levitating planetary masses created from outdated appliances and junkyard fodder. They hover above litter-ridden cities in Japanese artist Masakatsu Sashie‘s realist paintings, which tackle the maddening detritus we live with. His visions of oversized spheres, shedding old... read more
Press | September 16, 2016

Ben Venom featured in Playboy

Black metal, satanic imagery and biker-gang iconography are all subjects that San Francisco–based artist Ben Venom (a.k.a. Ben Baumgartner) lovingly transforms into quilts. Yes, quilts. How exactly did a metalhead with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute gravitate toward the methods of your great-grandma’s sewing circle? As a graduate student in 2006, Venom... read more
Press | August 4, 2016

Street Project by Dan Witz featured in Huffington Post

DAN WITZ’S BREATHING ROOM INSTALLS MEDITATING FIGURES IN 10 LONDON PHONE BOOTHS “It was an insane install,” says Dan Witz of his London phone booth, “probably one of the most challenging of my career.” The New York Street Artist who began working anonymously putting art on the streets in the late 1970s is sometimes given... read more
Press | July 29, 2016

‘Cluster’ Exhibition Preview

Cluster at Jonathan LeVine Gallery Starting on August 3rd at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, some of their established as well as new artists will be presenting work in a new group show. Entitled Cluster, the exhibition gave the participants a chance to interpret the idea of cluster or to arrange a grouping of their work to... read more
Press | July 22, 2016

Andy Kehoe Interview on PRØHBTD

Andy Kehoe Turns Dreams into Fantasies By David Jenison “I inhabit my worlds with strange creatures and like many of the subjects in Romantic paintings, they are often dwarfed by the nature surrounding them,” says Andy Kehoe, a Pittsburgh-based artist whose mixed-media works commonly feature animal-human hybrids in dark forests and moody landscapes. While influenced... read more