Ebtekar describes his work as “a visual glimpse of a crossroad where present day events meet history and mythology.” Inspired by the delicacy and intricacy found in Persian manuscript illuminations and Islamic architecture, the work employs the image and metaphor of the the portal, the gateway into the next, or the future.       […]

I sometimes use decorative faces on bottles because I like it when things look at you, as if they are ready to come alive and change – like a drag performer putting on makeup.  More recently, I’ve become even fonder of large, aggressive flowers.  Many of my visual references, garish Russian textiles, Renaissance and Baroque […]

In this piece, Andrew Wyeth’s model Christina Olson—who suffered from a degenerative muscular disorder in real life—sits, inactively staring out onto the soft landscape, finding solace on the boundary between the internal and the external.  Because of Olson’s dormancy and comfort in the serenity of this moment, technology serves little purpose. The robot is given […]

Sam Jackson’s works produced for VOLTA NY seek to look and contemplate on how it is possible to produce figurative work within a contemporary and image obsessed culture.  They strive to examine both high and low culture and how this can manifest itself in a painting in a serious and sensitive manner.  These paintings offer […]

All of those questions not only may go through the minds of exhibitors, but also through ours and the thousands of visitors that will walk the VOLTA canals. As we previewed the work, witnessing the installation several days before the doors opened to the public, we particularly paid attention to two special projects that quietly […]

Away from the piers, and over from the water, VOLTA NY is centered in the heart of downtown, surrounded by individually laid cobble stones that have served as the foundation for arts and culture for centuries. While most exhibitors in the fair circuit may focus on gallery wide curations, VOLTA NY offers an invitational show […]