Howard Hersh

at Addington Gallery

Marquee

The Artist reaches deep inside her soul. She gets out of the darkness the bright flames of feelings. The Artist tries to put those onto a material plane - the flats of canvas or paper. Sometimes she succeeds, sometimes she needs to do better next time.

Juan Uslé

at Cheim & Read

SIN DESENLACE, 2007

The routine (the white lines that go from left to right) changes you. You can't feel it, because it does very very slow. As time goes by (the grey vertical lines) you are changing. The routine gets in the way. It annoyingly disturbs the the main picture. You think : "This is just a day job, but I am actually an artist". But you are wrong. You are only part-time artist. Only if you can use this to your advantage(the blue background triangular figure in the lower middle), you can get you break-through (the white figure in the center). Otherwise the conveyor of life will be moving without you notice ( the grey horizontal ribbons in the upper part).

Dan Rees

at T293 (Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

Artex Painting, 2012

People like to watch.They watch all time starting from a fire in a cave and continue through gladiators' fights to the TV. It is our basic instinct to watch out for danger.We are hard wired to watch. When there is no danger (other than to gain weight), most of the people relax and duly watch whatever they see on the screen.But there are some people who go beyond the layer what they are shown. They watch the flames of feelings, the fights of morality and the dramedy of psychology.

Weekend Edition 23

Edgar Degas

End of an Arabesque, 1877

The artist is working. The first thing you notice is the yellow glow of the shirt. The glow represent the magic of the dance, the artwork. Next, you see the ballerina. She looks like a real simple person. There is nothing magical about her. How coud she create something so beautiful and enchanting? She've got something special, the talant(the bouqet). It is the flares inside her soul(the flowers inside the wrap) rhat she use to illuminate the world. She absorbs the surrounding world through the talant. This creates the magic and glow of the dance. If you look to the background, you will see that not all figures posses the same magical glow.

Nabil Nahas

Nabil Nahas at Sperone Westwater

Untitled, 2007

The darker oval in the lower part is an eye of the artist.The artist is different from other people, because s/he sees differently. S/he notices things that other don't see. Even in earthy, brown, dark place s/he always looks for hope(blue) and purity(white). And even when the artist's creation(the tree-like structure in the lower middle) includes pain (burgundy lines), it is used to cure the disease.

Stanley Whitney

Stanley Whitney at Team Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

05-2010

This is our society. The rectangles are people. Some rectangles are extended to make a base on which a layer is built. Those are artists. They see different, they think different. They do stuff that other people don't. Some people can think that the artists are parasites, that they don't do anything useful. But the artist are beautifying our life, thus making all of us better. The artists (designers are artists in every sense) build their work on layers of work of previous generations. 

Caragh Thuring

Caragh Thuring at Thomas Dane Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

This is how the artist's imagination works. From a simple entrance room with tiles, you build a stairs. That takes beyond the shut doors. You can "see" things that you are not supposed to see.From there, your imagination and associations give a multitude of "stairs" to jump on. Because you can put only so much into one painting, you have to divide the dream into several pieces. Each piece become a separate artwork.

Steve Roden

Steve Roden at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects(Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

This is how a process of creating art works. Something is growing inside you (a bunch of light green lines at the bottom). It goes almost invisible under the cool see of logic and conscience(the blue bunch). Everything is under the sea level, until it explodes in bright colors - orange and red. This is the artist's soul that starts to process the idea. The associations are flowing back and forth between the soul, logic and the subconscious.The dark green blobs are the artworks that being created by the process..

Lynn McCarty

Lynn McCarty at Nancy Hoffman Gallery

Pushing Paint

The center line of black spots is an ordinary life.It's a routine.The color spots are works that the artist produces in his life.They give color to his life. They make it more interesting. The artwork keeps his life together. The real artist can't live without art. He has to do it, because otherwise his life's backbone will crumble into pieces.