The Blackest Black
bu John Austin
At the basis of Micko’s series of paintings, recently exhibited at Artifact, is the artist’s understanding of metamorphosis and mutability. This principle of linear flow and graphic black on bla...
An Exhibition of Cat Art Worthy of a Meowseum
Hyperallergic - Cats have descended upon Maspeth, Queens, where Mrs. gallery is featuring the work of 39 artists focused on a single theme: furry felines. - read more ...
The painter who revealed how our eyes really see the world
BBC - In 1881, Paul Gauguin joked about how to extract Cézanne's mysterious methods, instructing Camille Pissarro to "ply him with one of those mysterious homeopathic drugs and come straight to Paris to share t...
When Rammellzee, pioneer of Hip Hop art, hosted a class in Milan
Domus - Collaborator of Basquiat, forerunner of Afrofuturism and prominent graffiti artist, Rammellzee is the great forgotten name of the 1980s New York underground. His Italian origins have marked an intense...
Damien Hirst and the Art of the Deal
NY TIMES - “He’s a talented artist, but this? Really?” said Alan Baldwin, an art collector, looking down recently at a fluffy black sculpture of a spider with bow legs and googly eyes. Back in 1992, three year...
5 Artists to Follow if You Like Georgia O’Keeffe
artsy - Known for her evocative depictions of budding flowers, animal skulls, and pigment-perfect gradients of desert sunrises and sunsets, Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the few American painters prominent enough ...
The Quotient of Transcendence in the Paintings of Hye Ja Moon
By John Austin
What is most evident in the vibrant paintings by Hye Ja Moon exhibited recently at Artifact is a transcendent reality removed from the everyday, away from the prosaic. The ‘here’ and ‘now’ is ma...
Louise Bourgeois Shares Her Deepest Secrets
NY Times - Writings by the artist, exhibited for the first time in the United States, reveal the psychological trauma that fueled her creativity. - read more ...
Form and Color in the Paintings of Tine Weppler
by Christopher Bruni
Tine Weppler’s investigations in form and color at her recent Artifact exhibition address various issues of cultural engagement. The play quality pervades these efforts in which one can di...
Internal Worlds in the Paintings of Elena Dobrovolskaya
by Christopher Bruni
Elena Dobrovolskaya’s gentle figurative paintings, currently exhibited at Artifact, have a sense of elegance and grace. Paint applied harmoniously coalesces to form remarkably organic and ...