The Video Art of Theodore Sefcik
Theodore Sefcik’s What Comes Through – Trailer Watching Theodore Sefcik’s eerily naturalistic videos often seems like we are spying on an artificial intelligence. As it learns and corrects itself in front of our eyes, crudely, yet sufficiently animated simulations come across as struggling animals and human figures. But more so…
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Cynthia Carlson – Bending the Grid with Wit
Cynthia Carlson was one of the star players in the Pattern and Decoration movement in New York City during the 1970s. For the un-initiated, the “P&D” movement was a reaction to the abstract schools in art of the 1960s – minimalism, late abstract expressionism, conceptual art, schools the P&D artists…
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Artist Profile: Alicia Adamervoich
Alicia Adamerovich is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA in Graphic Design from Penn State in 2013. Alicia’s drawings and paintings reference beauty and function in peculiar ways that constantly peak my attention. I first came across Alicia’s work this spring in the New York…
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Matt Kleberg’s Drawings
Matt makes intensely engaging paintings that grapple with the relationship between architectural spatiality and painterly flatness. Their color, gradations, and undulating, isometric patterns reveal shallow spaces that appear to both open and close simultaneously. Subtle shifts in the color and direction of his oil stick stripes and marks can make…
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Ortega y Gasset Projects Celebrates its Five-Year Anniversary
On June 2, Ortega y Gasset Projects will celebrate its five-year anniversary! I will be celebrating my three-year anniversary as a Co-Director and couldn’t be more excited and proud to be a part of this organization. Ortega y Gasset was founded in 2013 in Bushwick and in 2015, moved to…
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Part 2: Interview with Chris Arabadjis
When I was writing my last essay on Chris’s works, we talked at length over email and his answers to my questions were really insightful. Chris also visited my Experimental Drawing class and the students loved him. Below is an edited version of our interview. John – What was…
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The Art Journey of Jay Gaskill
There is something about most contemporary artists that I just love – they’re simply driven to make art. They can’t get out of the way of this primal need and I find it fascinating. Jay Gaskill is a painter that fits this mold. I want to tell you a little…
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Artist Feature: Will Hutnick
Will Hutnick is an artist and curator based in Wassaic, New York. Hutnick’s painting and curating life seems to be non-stop and the energy his paintings imbue are a direct and electric result. Will is relentless in his pursuit of making work and creating opportunities for others – this, along…
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The Work of Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have a collaborative practice that spans video, photography, sculpture, music, and performance. Allora is from Philadelphia and Calzadilla is from Puerto Rico. They both served as a unique and non-conventional choice to represent America in the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011. Generally selecting an individual…
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Studio Visit with Danielle Orchard
Danielle Orchard is a painter living and working in Brooklyn New York. Orchard is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery and is a member of the artist run curatorial collective, Underdonk which is based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. I recently did a studio visit with Dani and we spoke about painting, habits,…
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