Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select...
Bobby Rogers is currently a student at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, attempting to explorate different ideals of photorealism admix with multiple abstractions of design. Artist Statement Within my illustrations I enjoy finding ways to reinvent the element of motion. I want to make people anxious even when they don’t understand why. When...
Hello Tim, (Tim Sutherland, Creative Director of Studio Brave) who’s the first designer that comes to your mind in a second? Neville Brody – He was pioneering things out of the UK when I was in college. When you were 13, what did you want to be? A fire chief What’s the...
Born in Portugal in 1987, VHILS travels all over the globe to create his monumental works. He was singled out in 2008 by Banksy who invited him to the Cans Festival in London. The art critic Tristan Manco shared at the time « here he is one of the finest examples of world street art...
A trendsetter with an international following and a general disregard for borders, prolific street artist and painter Anthony Lister has managed to marry the empathy and abjection of 20th Century figuration with the irreverence of the street. His work shows a genuine affection for the human body, and also a tender understanding of the ways in which...
Pema Rinzin was born in Tibet in 1966 and grew up in Dharamsala, India, where he studied with Kalsang Oshoe, Khepa Gonpo, Rigdzin Paljor, and other master artists from 1979 to 1983. Rinzin subsequently taught Renaissance, Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist art, as well as cartoon drawing for eight years at the Tibetan Children’s Village Scool...
Hello DALeast, first of all, tell us something about your upcoming work. What are you into at the moment? Me and Faith47 keep traveling and painting, we have a lot of plans for this year. We were in Australia for 3 weeks preparing a first show together. Also I have a solo show coming up on...
Sarah Pickering researches truth versus verisimilitude through the medium of photography. Her unmanipulated images preserve actions whose causality and construction seems to be part of an alternate, but no lesser, reality. She worked with the emergency services, pyrotechnic manufacturers and the police to produce some of her most recent bodies of work. Exhibitions include How We...
In 1996, the artist chooses the alias ‘Invader’ in reference to the game SPACE INVADERS (1978). Inspired by the famous 8-bit characters (such as Super Mario, Pac Man and Space Invaders), he creates a direct parallel between the recent history in digital imaging and advanced art. The use of mosaics reminds us of the obsolescence...
Tien-Min Liao is born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. After graduating from National Chengchi University in Taiwan with a BA degree in Advertising, she got The Ministry of Education Scholarship to advance her education at Pratt Institute. Handmade Type “This is a self-initiated typographic experiment that explores the relationships between upper-case letters and lower-case letters,...
Nate Williams is an illustrator with a love for hand lettering. He values creativity, curiosity, inspiration, play and discovery. Nate has worked with the charity organization Art With Heart which unites volunteers from the arts to serve children in crisis by empowering them through self-expression and creativity. He has also contributed work to The Truth Anti-Tobacco campaign...
Victor has established herself as a major figure in the South African and International art communities and is renowned for her expert printmaking and draughtsmanship. Her prints and drawings are known not only for their technical skill and compulsive linear detail, but also for their sharp political and social commentary and satire. Her works, although...
Mary Sibande, born 1982, lives and works in Johannesburg. She obtained a B-Tech degree in Fine Arts at the University of Johannesburg in 2007. In Sibande’s practice as an artist, she employs the human form as a vehicle through painting and sculpture, to explore the construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context, but also...
Hello Rogier, first of all, tell us something about your upcoming work. What are you into at the moment? After a long period of making large scale canvasses I am now into small works, 50x65cm. Still with oils on canvas, and still painting people, young women mainly. After that I go on working on three...
Artist Statement Separated from birth, Escapista has lived of photography following a crooked path where nothing is linear. Bewitched by perception, loneliness and abandonment, his clicks take him to a perceptive context of lonely crawling, where it is not the photographer who chooses his subjects, but it is the latter who pull him by the...
Alvaro Leiva began his career in the late 1980s assisting fashion photographers and soon after he started traveling working on both editorial and advertisement commissions. His personal works River and Mare has been exhibited internationally, among other recognitions he has been finalist on two occasions for the Eugene Smith Grant. Nowadays he is based in...
Hannah Adamaszek is a freelance artist. She was born in 1981 in the UK and graduated from Bournemouth with an art degree. She has been living there most of her life, but was lucky enough to go and work in Austria, Switzerland and Australia for a few ski seasons. Everyday life and people inspire her,...
As an artist Rogier Willems creates mainly realistic portraits of large proportions in traditional oils on canvas. He is specialized in full-length portraiture. These days he also paints small scale paintings; 50×65 cm. The detailed space in which a person is depicted, takes up an intriguingly meaningful challenge with the person portrayed. This space and...
Hello Kim, first of all, tell us something about your upcoming work. What are you into at the moment? Im in the conceptual stage of a new series which I have been wanting to make for some time. It will be set in an post-apocalyptic future where the the viewer will feel like the last person left...
DALeast landed on this planet in 1984 in China, he then decided to live as an artist in this life. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and began doing street art at 2004 under the alias DAL. He is inspired by the way the material world revolves, how the spiritual world unfolds, life’s emotions...
Chakaia Booker
May 18, 2012
Bobby Rogers
May 16, 2012
Geoff McFetridge
May 15, 2012
Interview with Studio Brave
May 14, 2012
Vhils
May 11, 2012
Michelle McCarron
May 9, 2012
Anthony Lister
May 8, 2012
Factory Fifteen
May 6, 2012
Pema Rinzin
May 5, 2012
Interview with DALeast
May 3, 2012
Amy Stein
May 2, 2012
Sarah Pickering
Apr 30, 2012
Invader
Apr 29, 2012
Tien-Min Liao
Apr 28, 2012
Nate Williams
Apr 27, 2012
Diane Victor
Apr 26, 2012
Mary Sibande
Apr 24, 2012
Interview with Rogier Willems
Apr 22, 2012
Escapista
Apr 19, 2012
Alvaro Leiva
Apr 17, 2012