Interviews by Brainard Carey

Loren Erdrich creates paintings that both aspire toward transcendence and revel in their physicality. Erdrich’s deliberate and open collaboration with her medium allows for discovery in every painting, and she uses her materials in unconventional ways to create a dynamic tension between deliberate and unintentional gestures. She paints on raw muslin with water, dyes, pigments, and other water-base...

Alexander Ross in his studio, 2021, Great Barrington, MA Alexander Ross (b. 1960 in Denver, CO) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Ross has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; New York Foundation for the Ar...

photo of Ava (pictured with House Flips) Ava Werner is an American multi-media artist, working with 2D media and installation.  Broadly, her work focuses on how humans impact the earth and its resources. Werner is a lecturer in the Art and Design Department at California Polytechnic State University. Most recently, Werner had a residency summer 2023 at Vermont Studio Center. Her Waterlinks Install...

Omari Douglin  lives and works in Los Angeles. He received an MFA in Painting from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY in 2019. Selected solo and group exhibitions have been held at  Sebastian Gladstone (Los Angeles), Ramiken (New York), Micki Meng (San Francisco), and Theta (New York). Omari Douglin was born in Brooklyn, NY 1992. Raining Spy and Chips, 2023, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 60 x 43 i...

Oidie Kuijpers (b. 1993) is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Kuijpers makes work which explores representation and investigates painting as a form of critical inquiry. His paintings have been included in exhibitions at Oberlin College, Pace Gallery, New York, Pratt Institute, and D. D. D. D. in New York. untitled (2023.31), 2023, acrylic on panel 10 x 10 inches untitled (2023.10.A), 2023, ac...

Gregg Louis received a Master’s of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2009. His work has been featured in exhibitions around the world, including Nohra Haime Gallery in New York; NH Galería in Cartagena; Hverfisgalleri in Reykjavik;  The World Chess Hall of Fame  in Saint Louis;  Postmasters Gallery in New York; Galerist in Istanbul; Frieze London; Vienna Contempor...

Portrait of the Artist, Photo by Josh Wool. Brad Kunkle , b. 1978 Lehighton, Pennsylvania, BFA, Kutztown University, 2001. A decade after selling out his debut solo exhibition in New York City on opening night, Brad Kunkle has become internationally known for his unique use of gold and silver leaf in contemporary oil painting. His themes explore the shedding of dogmas inherited from previous gener...

Cynthia Lahti (b. 1963) lives and works in her birthplace of Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Lahti has presented solo exhibitions in Oregon at CEI Artworks Gallery (2019), Ditch Projects (2017), Imogen Gallery (2017), Passages Bookshop (2016), and PDX Contemporary Art (2016), among others. Her work is in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Boi...

photo is by Tyson Housman Originating from vintage video clips, Helia Chitsazan (b. 1995, Tehran, Iran) invokes a visualblur and static of old camera films through her painting. Chitsazan explores a constant and universally ambiguous feeling of absence and loss. To her, art is a language to hold emotions and complications that she experienced growing up in Iran’s specific cultural and social...

Karla Knight in her studio Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to announce  Universal Remote , a solo exhibition of new work for artist Karla Knight, running from November 3 – December 22, 2023.  A solo display of Knight’s work will be held concurrently at The Art Show (ADAA) at the Park Avenue Armory from November 1–5. Over the past four decades, Knight has executed her idiosyncratic visons of UFO re...

Alva Mooses photographed by Mauricio Cortes Ortega at Shandaken Projects, Governor’s Island 2023. Alva Mooses is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work explores the intersections of printed media, ceramics, and sculpture while engaging with earth-based materials to signal the memory of geological time. Her ceramic series titled ear to the earth/ culebra, truena, tormenta was exhibited at Jane...

Matthew Kirk’s (Navajo Nation) practice combines the materiality of his long-held job as an art-handler with mark-making inspired by comics, abstraction, and Diné (Navajo) visuality. A 2019 Eiteljorg Fellow, his work was recently featured in The New York Times . His recent solo exhibition White Snake (2023) was presented at Halsey McKay Gallery in New York City. Kirk was born in Arizona, raised in...

Cyle Warner is a Brooklyn-based artist of Afro-Caribbean descent. A recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Photography, he works across mediums, often using fabric and photographs inherited from family to explore his concept of Dis. In 2022 he attended the prestigious Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art. Welancora Gallery is proud to present Weh Dem? De Sparrow Catcher?, a solo e...

Heather Dewey-Hargborg, American artist and bio-hacker most knowned for the project Stranger Visions. Ana Brígida for The New York Times Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analys...

Jonathan Herbert (b. 1952, New York City) explores the nonverbal relationship between cosmology and consciousness. He creates unique, intuitive formulations of water-based paint using acrylic and urethane media made on the spot, mid-process. He explores the nonverbal nature of creative inspiration via intuition. These works examine the richness of the present moment while simultaneously referring...

Mickalene Thomas Photographed by Malike Sidibe At Yale Gallery for The New York Times Magazine. Mickalene Thomas was born and raised in New Jersey and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. One of the most influential artists in the world today, her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. She is known for her el...

In 2021, Anna Berlin was awarded a Fulbright Research and Study Scholarship to Berlin, Germany, and has since painted between her new home and her family’s house in New Jersey. The paintings weave Berlin’s life with the stories she grew up with about her family, alongside new understanding gained from independent research on her German-Jewish history. The paintings are of a grayscale world, where...

Marleen Sleeuwits (NL), Multidisciplinary artist Marleen Sleeuwits, born in 1980 in Enschede, currently lives and works in The Hague. In 2001 she graduated from the Royal Academy of the Arts with a BA in photography, whereafter she obtained her MA in the same discipline at AKV|St. Joost in 2005. Marleen Sleeuwits has been exhibiting solo and in group exhibitions, in The Netherlands and intern...

Sarah Lubin (Boston, MA) earned a B.A. in Art History from McGill University in 2001, followed by a year in Foundation Studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London). She received an M.A. in Art History from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Lubin is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundat...

Julie Severino is a Brooklyn based painter. She received her MFA from New York Academy of Art. Severino creates psychological narratives that function as a tool to deepen her understanding of the mind and body connection, in relation to her own personal history and the larger human experience. Playing with perspective, her paintings depict disproportionate figures or things that are in dialogue wi...

Edward Povey was born in London, England in 1951, the only child of a merchant seaman and a seamstress. He studied at the Eastbourne College for Art and Design in  England and at the University of Wales in North Wales. 1972-1978 Between 1975 and 1981 he came to the attention of the British media as a muralist, completing 25 internal and external murals up to five stories in height, in Israel, Wale...

Floria González was born in Monterrey on July 20th, 1980. She moved to Acuña Coahuila in 1983, eventually moving to Mexico City at 16 where she currently lives and works. Floria’s dreamlike, cinematic scenes explore alternate realities and hidden layers of the psyche. Using photography, video, installation, performance, and painting, Floria maintains a constant dialogue between fantasy and imagina...

Enemy Combatant , David Winner’s third novel (March 2021) received a  Kirkus-starred review  and was a  Publisher’s Weekly/Booklife Editor’s Pick . He is the co-editor of Writing the Virus , a New York Times -noted Anthology. His Kirkus-recommended second novel, Tyler’s Last, was nominated for a Pushcart while his first, The Cannibal of Guadalajara , won the 2009 Gival Pres...

Portrait, Laura Anderson Barbata. Photo: Jake Holler Born in 1958 in Mexico City, Laura Anderson Barbata is a transdisciplinary artist, performer, writer, and educator who lives and works between New York and Mexico City. Since 1992 Anderson Barbata has worked primarily in the social realm, initiating projects in the Venezuelan Amazon, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Norway, and the United States. Am...

Mikael Levin explores our conceptions of place, identity and temporarily. His photographs are often of commonplace, everyday sites that, while seemingly insignificant in themselves, tie into larger historical events or movements of our times. By way of these places, his photographs form a topography of societal structures, predispositions, influences and memory. A note on the Stono Rebellion image...