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 […]

Rebecca Manson is a sculptor whose belief and process partially lay in the hands of chaos.  She’s a rebellious one, who has taken the rules of classic pottery and thrown them out the window.  If she’s using clay that can only handle a heat rating of 100 degrees, she immediately turns the kiln up a […]

“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 […]

“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 […]