The Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Drawings of Saul Chernick
Creation myths are a response to the unanswerable question: Where do we come from? Like gods, those who assign meaning and purpose to our existence also determine who and what is most valued. I am...
View ArticleThe Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Art of Anne Polashenski
My current work incorporates textile patterns and photographs of figures in patterned garb whichact as camouflage to hide and protect the body. The patterned worlds I am creating have a vulnerable...
View ArticleThe Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Paintings of David McBride
My interest is in subject matter that can be associated with modern myths. By creating paintings dealing with the exploration of space and modern architecture, for example, I am attempting to identify...
View ArticleThe Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Drawings of Susan De Seyn
I’ve got a place in Florence. I’ve got a lot of friends up there. You can use them as furniture. There’s one guy — he looks just like a bookcase.” – Nabokov/Kubrick, Lolita 1962. Susan De Seyn The...
View ArticleThe Art Fag City Emerging Artists Summer Series Closes…Five Days into Fall
Unfortunately the Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series ended up extending well into the fall, due to summer vacations and September gallery madness, but all and all we couldn’t be happier with...
View ArticleEmerging Artist Summer Series: Trong Nguyen
This year’s Emerging Artist Summer Series takes on a slightly different form, this time focusing on conceptual artists. Our previous profiles ran once a week throughout July and August, this suite...
View ArticleEmerging Artist Summer Series: Elaine Kaufmann
Elaine Kaufmann, The Dodge Caravan, 2006 Image courtesy Elaine Kaufmann Artists often benefit from taking a degree outside their medium. The Computer Science, English Literature, or Architecture...
View ArticleEmerging Artist Summer Series: Jennifer Schmidt
Jennifer Schmidt, Coupon Dash, 2006 Courtesy of the artist. With Chelsea now dominated by narrative and pictorial representation, for the last few years artists interested in abstraction have worked...
View ArticleEmerging Artist Summer Series: Stephanie Diamond
Stephanie Diamond, Posed in Between Faces for Snapshots, 2007 Maybe I am too easily pleased by simple concepts, but I can’t help but be charmed by the photographs of Stephanie Diamond. Featured above...
View ArticleEmerging Artist Summer Series: Julia Weist
photo via deaccession.org Some time before embarking upon a glamorous career as an Internet nerd, I spent a year working at the exhibitions department at the main branch of the New York Public...
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