2017 ART AWARD WINNERS New York City, March 23, 2017 — The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the nine artists who will receive its 2017 awards in art. The awards will be presented in New York City in May at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial. The art prizes and purchases, totaling over $250,000, […]

Recycle, Reuse, Create. The Latest from Recology’s Artist in Residence Program BY ASHLEY VILLARREAL ON JAN 17, 2017  Ramekon O’Arwisters in a bathtub of dinnerware for “Smooth the Edges” Artists have been borrowing resources to help formulate their works before there were words to really describe ‘art’ as a concept. These days, the number of objects that are […]

Redefining Touch: A Conversation with James Fleming, Kelly Lovemonster, and boychild by Claudia La Rocco, boychild, Kelly Lovemonster + James Fleming The aftermath of boychild’s performance at the Touch On opening reception at the SOMArts Cultural Center. Photo by Kelly Wu. On the occasion of Touch On: Aesthetics in the Art, Politics and Ontology of Touch, a group exhibit at SOMArts, Open Space editor-in-chief Claudia La […]

Vivian Xiao November 30, 2016 Gail Wight is an American artist whose work combines art with biology, neurology and technology. Her work explores the impact of life sciences on the human being. She is a professor in Art Practice and has been teaching art at Stanford since 2003. She works primarily in experimental media, photography, […]

June 20, 2016 A Vermont-based printmaker transcends the limits of her medium, substituting felt for paper in multi-textured, mixed-media works inspired by the landscape of her native Australia. Text by Robert Kiener May – June 2016 As Sarah Amos shows off some of the finished and in-progress colorful abstract prints that fill her barn-like northern […]

By Ephraim Russell Posted on September 14, 2016   This conversation took place via email and was led by Philadelphia curator Angela McQuillan with New York based artist Laura Splan and San Francisco based artist Gail Wight at the time of their Exhibition, Raw Material, at Grizzly Grizzly, May 2016.     Angela: In the exhibition description the two of you are introduced as long-time […]

Twin exhibits explore the strained relationship between humans, the environment By Jeffrey Edalatpour August 24, 2016 Edward Burtynsky’s photograph, ‘Oil Fields #19b, Belridge, California’ is in the two-part SJMA exhibit, ‘Indestructible Wonder.’ At first blush, the thematic connection between two new exhibits at the San Jose Museum of Art seems tenuous at best. But after spending time […]

Artist Markus Linnenbrink has installed a vibrant 40,000 square foot mural across the façade of Miami‘s soon-to-be completed SLS Brickell Hotel and Residences. Best known for his signature ‘drip painting’ technique, linnenbrink has enlivened downtown’s monochromatic urban area with a colossal, chromatic landscape. Commissioned by Jorge M. Pérez with the goal of giving the district a […]

Future Fossil, Other Vessel By Anthony Hawley June 3, 2016 A Whisper of Where it Came From MARCH 11 – JULY 24, 2016 KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Convene MARCH 15 – MAY 22, 2016 NERMAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS In 2016 we’re trying to make sense of our […]