Aram Jibilian investigates the late Arshile Gorky through the lens of the glass house, the artist’s final residence before his suicide in 1948 in his latest series of photographs Gorky and the Glass House.  An Armenian living in America in exile, Gorky’s identity was in a constant state of flux and served as a point […]

A literary term derived from the German “double-goer” the doppelgänger refers to a ghostly shadow that follows its living counterpart.  For Cornelia Hediger, the doppelgänger is a point of exploration in her self-portraits, which are large-scale photographs divided in multiple frames and then pieced together in a manner where the lines of the furniture and […]

Richard Barnes’s work captures the hidden environment of once wild animals forever preserved in great museum halls.  While the public can travel to their native land to see primates run free, those living in our urban jungles can view hyper-realistic still life environments behind security glass barriers.  Barnes visits these restricted enclosures, recording photographic proof […]

Have you ever been tempted to raid a 99 cent store? Quentin Shih who is based in New York and China transformed the mundane and mass-produced objects found in 99 cent shops into still-life studies of modern life bathing in a pastel palette.  Cropping the objects in a circular frame, plastic straws and sand toys that still […]

From his book Blown, a collection of photographs six years in the making, Christopher Griffith transforms the mangled debris of discarded tires and transforms them into magnificent still-lifes.     Why did you decide to pursue your practice on the East Coast?  I am the son of a British father.  We immigrated to the East […]

Finding inspiration in Renaissance painters like Vermeer, Caravaggio, and Da Vinci, the works of Awol Erizku replace stiff, aristocratic subjects with women who capture the stylings of modern life.  Like the call and response spontaneity of jazz improvisation, Erizku’s response to Vermeer’s classic painting Girl with a Pearl Earring, is Girl with a Bamboo Earring. […]