Los Angeles based collaborators Case Simmons and Andrew Burke, better known as the collective Simmons and Burke, revel in the visual cacophony of the depths of Google and cyberspace.  By culling thousands of images from disparate sources inspired by themes of popular culture, kitsch, the cult, and the surreal, they construct Palettes whereby the source […]

Jordan Fox defies categories but defines them as well.  The New York based performer believes the human body is a blank canvas and with the right combination of couture and makeup he can adopt any persona imaginable.  Tony Chavira speaks with Fox about the influence of sexuality, eroticism and the fluidity of gender.   Tony […]

“What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.” -Susan Sontag   In the Motherboard series nude female subjects are suspended mid plane while thin chords crisscross around their exposed nude bodies.  Rendered in a series of cross, straight and jump stitches, the […]

Installation Magazine was introduced to the work of Japanese-born artist Keisuke Shirota last year at PULSE Los Angeles.  Galerie Stefan Röpke presented Installation with a limited edition copy of A Sense of Distance, a collection of Shirota’s works wherein the photographic plane is manipulated by a deft painterly hand.  The works are beautiful and haunting […]

“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.” – Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha     Ahmad Zakii Anwar sits behind a wooden table in the center of Andrew Shire Gallery tracing the ceramic ring of the […]

The subjects of the Playground series are deconsecrated stretches of forgotten and unkempt land shrouded by neglect and considered a refuge for rebellious teenagers who wreak havoc on its soil. The landscape is characterized by uneven patches of mud curling and hardening over the sides of destroyed automobiles and decayed garages long overdue for a […]