Charles Biederman

Charles Biederman at Menconi and Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC (The Armory Show 2012)

Untitled, 1935

This is the birth of a great idea.It is started to crystallize seemingly from thin air (the blue figure in the left center).  But actually you are filling the empty carcass of the idea with your previous experience, common sense and logic (lower greenish gray part of the painting). And the second source of inspiration is your passion, your feelings. The idea is changing forms, it is flexible as you progress with your thinking. You have your doubts whether it is something worthy(the waves from the center to the lower right corner). Now you are pretty advanced in developing the idea, so you are starting to think about a real implementation(the rectangles with black border).

Steven Bindernagel

Steven Bindernagel at CRG Gallery

Untitled, 2010

This is Humor. It always grabs something out of the dark and puts a light spot on this thing. And this is funny. But to do it right you need to be a philosopher. You need think pretty serious about a vast amount of stuff. So the great comics are sad and possibly depressed deep inside. That is the contrast that make us laugh.

Suzan Frecon

Suzan Frecon at David Zwirner (The Armory Show 2012)

Arched Blue, 200

This is a woman. She is seducing you. Her flag is blue satin. Or is it eye blinder? You take the cover off your eyes, but it is too late. You are inside her energy field(the background lines). It works like a spell. You are on the slippery slope, because it looks like you are stepping on polished wood.

Nina Pohl

Nina Pohl at Sprüth Magers Berlin London (The Armory Show 2012)

Untitled, 2008

People always try to hide the nature that inside them. They hide their bodies in clothes, they change their appearance, they modify their behavior. They have been doing everything in the name of high ideal. Just to show that a man is not an animal.But you cannot fight your own nature. You can't change what you are. Your attempts at best will look like a poorly designed tree house in which you are trying to live permanently. But usually it is just a hurricane wreck. 

Ulla von Brandenburg

Ulla von Brandenburg at Pilar Corrias (The Armory Show 2012)

Kulisy, 2010

 This is the Theater. The backstage. It reminds you a ship: a wooden deck, ropes, curtains(sails). It is a magical ship that is ready to take you to the sea of imagination. It is a mysterious place. Each curtain partially opens the next space. This partial uncovering lures you. You want to find behind every curtain something interesting, new and exciting.But if you get all the curtains up you will see that this is only your imagination.You will realize that it's only big empty space.

Jacco Olivier

Jacco Olivier at Marianne Boesky Gallery(The Armory Show 2012)

Landscape, 2010

When you see a beautiful landscape, you feel the energy of Nature.You can almost touch unbreakable hope made of steel (the blue line all over). You can smell the freedom. You feel being a part of Nature.You are dissolving into a breeze. Then it returns to what it is - a small sunny Sunday picnic with your family in the park on outskirts of the town where you live.

David Urban

David Urban at Corkin Gallery (The Armory Show)

Untitled 5, 2011

You(the blue rectangle) are on the paved road(beige rectangles on the left side). The millions used this road before you, and more will use it after you are gone. You are full of dreams, hopes and energy. You are thinking about going off the road, into the uncharted territory. And what the heck, you could break beyond the red border. But you are smart and experienced enough  to not do it on the impulse. The best spontaneity is prepared well beforehand. You are measuring when to do the plunge. You don't want to repeat the fate of those that left only the white splashes after crashing into the fence.

Mindy Shapero

Mindy Shapero at Marianne Boesky Gallery (The Armory Show 2012)

Mosaic Drawing Circle Vision(Black, Blue, Silver, and Gold), 2010

 The circles are people. Some of them are real persons, some of them are fictional. Some of them are alive, some of them are dead. But all of them influence other people. The lines are relationships. They can extend the radius where the forces of influence work. The small dots are impulses of influence. They are some deeds that you do for people you don't even know, but you know they would appreciate what you have done for them.The circle is a symbol of time. So a person(circle) is a container for time, for the experience that the person had. And all of these are just threads in a great textile, called History.

Soo Kim

Soo Kim at Angles Gallery (The Armory Show 2012)

She seems to be trying to find the right words, 2011

Women are very detail-oriented. They notice things that men don't realize exist. Women are emotional. When you combine the huge number of details and feelings and moods that come with every detail, you can get distracted very easily. It is like you caught up in the bushes. Even they are not thick and each branch can't distract you from the path,  but the sheer number of them makes you wonder what you wanted to say. The the right words are starting to come up(the black branches).