Tadao Cern visits the beach and through the lens of camera discovers that the environment rids people of their inhibitions.  Capturing candid moments of men, women and children lounging on the sand, Cern makes intimate moments public in his series Comfort Zone.   I finished school with a masters degree in architecture but two years ago […]

Installation Magazine’s Creative Director Garet Field-Sells selects his favorite works by emerging artists showcased within the Saatchi Online Best of 2013 collection.  Sharing personal anecdotes about each work, Field-Sells curated this presentation in connection to the California landscape where he lives, works and collects art. Relja Penezic This work reminds me of countless drives up to […]

My photographic work is based on a daily ritual through which I construct series of work.  My photographs essentially focus on compositions, lines, and color.  What is important to me is telling a story, and above all inducing a tone, an ambiance, and constructing a universe. I can also create series around precise histories, characters, […]

My first official assignment as a writer sent me to Downtown, Los Angeles at the Santa Fe Artist Colony to interview Lisa Adams.  It was the winter of 2008, nearly five years exactly that I met Lisa for the first time.  She had just applied spray paint to a large work titled We Destroyed the […]

In the series Pseudo Documentation David DiMichele plays a game with his audience about the perception and reality of installations.  You would think that the title would be a dead giveaway, but a “pseudo documentation” of what exactly? While they are presented as large-scale photographs, the scenes are actually miniature constructions of an installation created by […]

The seaweed that inhabits the coastline of Maine serves as inspiration for New York photographer Alan Henriksen.  The natural element transforms into mystical shapes and seems as delicate as smoke rings yet other compositions reveal a greater surface tension that give the seaweed a hard edge.  A modest element of the oceanic landscape becomes an artifact […]