Jan Peeters and Hermann Wundrum: On Familiar Things
Jan van de Velde II. Still Life with Tall Beer Glass, 1647. Recently, I had the pleasure to break bread with Prof. Jan Peeters and Hermann Wundrum, the two minds behind the excellent On Familiar Things. Over the course of an afternoon, we discussed the current ramifications of painting from the Dutch Gouden Eeuw. The...
ARTLURKER Miami Writer’s Prize
Just a quick note to say that Artlurker.com has just announced the 2012 Miami Writer’s Prize, and I’ll be judging it alongside Noah Becker (Whitehot Magazine), Paddy Johnson (Art Fag City), and Hrag Vartanian (Hyperallergic). This is a great opportunity to win $800. Also, you can further a dialogue with art. Both noble pursuits, indeed....
Lindsay Dye: Photographs
You’ve seen these photographs before, even if you haven’t. All of the signs are there: a flash harsh enough to bleach out part of the picture, mirrors multiplying the self, threadbare pantyhose signifying that self wearing thin. Diaristic photography exists to account for and to justify. These roles are interdependent: things unjustifiable soon fall away....
Multitaskers: Naomi Fisher and Jim Drain
This is the third part of a series of interviews with Miami-based arts professionals whose multifaceted practices were once seen as contradictory and now are quite necessary. Naomi Fisher and Jim Drain are both artists and in charge of the Bas Fisher Invitational. In High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture, Isabelle Graw...
Hayal Pozanti: Six Paintings and a GIF
Hayal Pozanti received an MFA from Yale in 2011. Currently, she is preparing for solo exhibition at Silverman Gallery in San Francisco. The show, Co-Real, opens February 10th. 1) Can you talk about your background a bit? Are you from Istanbul? I went last year and totally loved it. I was born and raised in...
Mauricio Gonzalez: New Sculpture
Mauricio Gonzalez’s sculpture is a complete aesthetic response to the state and condition of Florida. By creating his pieces, which are both bodies and sites, out of the physical detritus of the housing crisis, Gonzalez inserts his practice between Modernist social planning and the attempted revival of subjective humanism. Just as Florida is caught in...
Interview: George Sanchez Calderon
George Sanchez Calderon’s studio is beneath 395 in the historic Overtown area of Miami. When I stopped by on November 27th, he was busy shuffling things around in preparation for a series of studio visits. How long have you been in Miami? Oh, since I was a kid. I moved here from New York when...
Faith Ringgold: American People, Black Light
If you haven’t been, it’s worth a trip over to MAM to see their show of Faith Ringgold’s paintings from the 1960s. Ringgold is most famous in this country for her narrative quilts, which are a staple of grade school art appreciation courses, and for the Reading Rainbow standby Tar Beach. As these early paintings...
aaajiao: Turritopsis Nutricula and Cloud.data
Aaajiao (Xu Wenkai) is one of China’s most popular digital artists. Rather than attending art school, the 27 year old studied engineering before going into a career of software development. This unlikely progression and his use of digital media makes aaajiao an unlikely heir to the long history of traditional Chinese art. However, his work...
