Hair, eggshells, and Post-its transform once they enter Gabriel de la Mora’s laboratory.  Equipped with unique tools, the craftsman transmutes discarded materials into detailed works of art driven by process and investigation.  As he expresses, “My definition of art is parallel with the definition of energy, stated as: Art is not created or destroyed, it […]

A student at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jason Guo creates cerebral, conceptual works loaded with a complex methodology and riddled with satire.     In LSD- 25 Without Urine and Wine, I commissioned a chemistry student from the University of Chicago to synthesize a special form of the hallucinogenic drug: Lysergic acid […]

Multi-disciplinary artist Chad Wys interrogates the infrastructure of art history.  In appropriating the canon, Wys uses contemporary digital technology to intervene, and to siphon back through the history of art in order to extract kernels of information and misinformation.  His practice is one of both revelation and obfuscation but leaves the meaning to be made […]

Amir H. Fallah tells us how he’s changing Portraiture and opens up about his artistic process. The founder of Beautiful/Decay reflects on the evolution of his artistic growth, which is rooted in Death Metal, skateboarding and graffiti.  While he maintains a focus on his artwork, the ‘zine that he started in 1996 has functioned like […]