Berndnaut Smilde conducts elementary particles of water and smoke to create clouds riddled with sculptural complexity.  Suspended within spaces whose walls are dense with history, materiality, and architectural intrigue, Smilde creates an atmospheric artwork that would become ephemeral if not for the photographic documentation. Belonging to an ongoing body of work called the “Nimbus” series, […]

The signature “Fire-Flowers” by Los Angeles-based Spencer Mar Guilburt act as checkpoints throughout the city.  Their inherent fluidity and motion transform the exterior of any wall, building, or canvas.  They have become like a fingerprint, an indelible and unmistakable mark confirming evidence that the artist was once here and has since traveled to a new […]

Devotion is a thought experiment.  I wanted to see how contemporary art would function when placed in a shrine/chapel/temple setting in which it would be hopefully viewed in the context of it’s original ritual usage.  Many of the pieces lent them selves easily to this metaphysical process–Eliszabeth Kley’s ceramic cages, Mike Ballou’s bird flock wall […]

Cyborg was curated on the premise that even non-technology based artists are acknowledging the changes in the concept of the figure that is taking place due to innovations in genetics, prosthetics and our understanding of alternate forms of consciousness that co-exist with our own.  As our idea of the human body in relation to its […]

“In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.” – Albert Camus    Join the “rebels” Gregory Siff and LouisXXX at 4AM Gallery in the Pacific Design Center space B273 to celebrate the reissue of […]

Basements are good places to play, licitly or not.  A person can tinker or experiment out of sight of people going about their day-lit lives.  Leeza Meksin has landed a body of new artworks into Airplane, a basement gallery in Bushwick, New York, that takes full advantage of its cellar opportunities.  She pinches, perforates and […]