Konstantin Grcic
April 24, 2009
Konstantin Grcic has designed every object in the house. Even though he is one of thepremier industrial-design geniuses, he believes that expertise isn’t always the creative answer. Whether it be an espresso machine, a bicycle, or even a laundry basket, the Munich-based designer knows that the objects we cherish most are often funny, imperfect, and, occasionally, a little ridiculous.
Steve McQueen
February 17, 2009
The director whose first feature film captivated Cannes is actually one of the art world’s most prolific video artists. Can he balance the cineplex and the gallery?
Aimee Mann
February 5, 2009
Aimee Mann was best known for ‘Til Tuesday until the sountrack for Magnolia gave her a whole new career. Fresh off the completion of her American tour, here she talks about life after record labels and her boxing repertoire.
Eddie Martinez
November 29, 2008
Eddie Martinez is indomitable. He is a prolific draftsman, an active curator, and he’s getting ready to fill a four-story gallery in Seoul, South Korea, early next year. His idiosyncratic drawing style is deceptively simple and has the magical, faux naïve quality of Paul Klee.
Wes Lang
November 29, 2008
In Wes Lang’s meticulous pencil drawings, America is a land of whiskey and country music, pinup girls and Walt Whitman. It’s not a bad place to be, all things considered-a place of individualism that’s been scarred by history, which pretty much gets reconstructed in Lang’s roving works. The 36-year-old New York artist, who grew up in Chatham, New Jersey, has come to be known for his extraordinary portraits of American Indians, often on display at ZieherSmith gallery in New York. He also recently showed a series of large-scale paintings in “The Destruction of Atlantis,” a group show that took place at Union Gallery in London this past fall.
Taryn Simon
November 29, 2008
Taryn Simon’s series of photographs, “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar,” confirmed her as one of the leading artists to understand our moment in history. These striking still lifes, first exhibited in 2007, portray the periphery of American power, and are marked with an eerie tone and haunting beauty. The 33-year-old New York native is drawn to places where government policy converges with post-apocalyptic anxiety-like a nuclear waste storage facility or the art collection in the lobby of CIA headquarters-yet her images are underlined by a formal elegance and a modern unease. Simon has taken portraits of political figures as well, and she recently photographed Barack Obama for The New York Times Magazine.
Enoc Pérez
November 20, 2008
In Enoc Pérez’s paintings of modernist buildings, rum bottles, and provocative nudes, the intensity of his attraction to his subject is so evident that one becomes complicit in his nostalgia trip almost immediately. Last year, in an inspired convergence of art and geography, the 42-year-old’s series of paintings of the Lever House in New York […]