Chad Crews: The Decisive Moment
It took time to build up the confidence to take pictures of people. I started out timid, shooting from the hip and hiding the camera. I hated that fee…
Category: Art
Juan Fontanive: Birds, Butterflies, and Animated Machines
I tend to look at things in a more abstract way. Even when I am using more representational imagery, I am thinking in abstract terms. For example, but…
Jenny Morgan: Painting Body and Spirit
I felt that I was turning myself inside-out, turning white-to-black and vice versa held strong symbolic meaning psychologically. I started to dream ab…
Kiley Ames: Fragmenting the Figure
I like the contradiction of a really raw and simple material combined with these fragmented pieces. That’s how I see my life and people in general.
Alicia Gibson: Interpreting Memories Through Kitsch, Satire and Paint
It comes from a dark place, but when I’m making it, it’s a way for me to process. I’m laughing as I’m making it, but I’m being half-serious …
Go! Push Pops: Evolution of a Radical Feminist Art Collective
We know that women’s bodies are very marketable. There is an innate power in women’s bodies, which has been distorted.
Nicolas Holiber: Striving For Perfectly Imperfect Art
I’m interested in making things that are perfectly imperfect.
Ryobi Room: Transforming A Bodega Basement Into An Unexpected Art Destination
Months went by and we came to get beer or something. B. Thom asked to use the bathroom not knowing where it was. He opened the secret hatch, then came…
Michael Barolet: Striving for the Intimate Photograph
I don’t want any fantasy in my images. I want viewers to look at the photos and see these beautiful people as they are.
Samuel T. Adams: The Language and Performance of Painting
I made these masked geometric paintings based on collage and thought, “These are awesome.” Then I went to Holland for a month on a residency, came…