The Outsider Artist
Shaun RandolSince he left office in January 2009, former president George W. Bush has kept a low profile. Once a swaggering politician, Bush has adopted the life of a reclusive artist, spending as much...
View ArticleBodies without World
Sunday, August 4, 2013By Ari Akkermans[Shawki Yousef: Organic Corners, 2013, mixed media on canvas, 180x147cm]“The flesh is at the heart of the world.”–Maurice Merleau-PontyThe most astute metaphysical...
View ArticlePart III: The Masks and Hoods of Lovers
Thursday, January 23, 2014By Shaun Randol[Read Parts I, II]Where masked lovers can assist the viewer in comprehending a larger political or social construct, hooded lovers convey much starker,...
View ArticleDanto's Definition
Shaun RandolIt took him fifty years, but he finally did it. Arthur C. Danto's experience with Andy Warhol's "Brillo Box" (1964), coupled with his understanding of Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" (1917),...
View ArticleArchitectures of Velocity
Friday, March 7, 2014By Ari Akkermans["Hacienda", oil on canvas, 180x200cm, 2013]The solidity of an image is not formed in the three-dimensional manner of a cube, for it is not an extension of the...
View ArticleAn Artist Responds to the Art of George W. Bush
Tuesday, April 22, 2014By Yvette GranataUntitled (Prisoner) (2011) by Yvette Granata; inspired by the image of anonymous prisoner being transported, shackled, in Guantanamo Bay, CubaThe three paintings...
View ArticleMapping Unstable Objects
Tuesday, May 13, 2014By Ari Akkermans[Kamrooz Aram at Green Art] How do objects appear in painting? Traditionally speaking, objects do not appear but simply are revealed. In classical painting,...
View ArticleThe Here of the Elsewhere
Tuesday, September 2, 2014By Ari Akkermans“Our inheritance was left to us by no testament." – René CharThin Skin, installation views, courtesy Scott RuddIn his 1881 painting, “Bar at the...
View ArticleThe Artist With Seven Lives
Tuesday, October 28, 2014By Shaun RandolArtist José Antonio Torres was once tortured (photo: Shaun Randol) While strolling through the quaint neighborhood of Usaquen in northern Bogotá I paused in...
View ArticleThe Artist Sam Eugène Reflects on Finding Beauty
Laura ScheriauAfter visiting his most recent exhibition, “A Digital Fauve,” Laura Scheriau met up with Sam Eugène, a young Canadian-British artist based in London, to talk about his views on art, his...
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