A vanguard of Abstract Expressionism in the Bahamas with over five decades of evolving form in his retinue, Kendal Hanna’s recent career achievements include last year’s art documentary Brigidy Bram. In Hanna’s words, “real curiosity in ideas, material, form and the environment, be it through drawing, sculpture or painting, and channeling that effort into hard […]

Lavar Munroe’s phantasmagorical mixed-media canvases channel the exotic ‘other’, in the U.S.-based Bahamian artist’s ongoing discourse on the 19th century ‘human zoo’ and contemporary cultural politics.  Munroe’s current activities include Double Play, a dual-artist exhibition at The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas (Nassau) and solo Where Heroes Lay at Art League of Houston (Houston […]

The quintessential artist’s artist, seminal ‘working-man’s scaled’ AbEx master Thomas Nozkowski has an illustrious career, including recent catalogued museum exhibitions at MoMA (Print/Out: 20 Years in Print in 2012) and at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2009 extensive solo survey). BravinLee programs (NYC, booth A2) unveils a three-decade suite of Nozkowski’s iconic 16 x 20” […]

Dustin Yellin is the founder of Red Hook’s Pioneer Works Center for Art and Education.  He exhibits selections of his signature ‘painting sculptures’, culling from his ongoing dynamically figurative cosmos Psychogeographies as well as intimately-scaled acrylic and glass contrasts. As well, Yellin was selected to participate during this season’s New York City Ballet’s Art Series […]

Emissions form the crux of Ida Kvetny’s latest works, ecstatically surreal compositions that are worlds unto themselves, as she manifests space-creation and -disintegration from topics stemming from environmental concerns to inner conflict. She is a current artist-in-residence at NARS Foundation (New York). Galleri Christoffer Egelund (Copenhagen, booth C4) presents Kvetny at VOLTA NY 2015.  

Growing up in Los Angeles, I have absorbed my personal history from family lore.  Most of us have come to this country as immigrants with nothing.  My grandparents and great-grandparents began anew, they came to the United States from Eastern Europe.  Cast-off or used objects already imbued with the history of others, aided in the […]