Interviews by Brainard Carey

Adrianne Rubenstein (b. Montreal, 1983) is a painter based in New York. Solo exhibitions include Magic Show at Broadway Gallery, New York; Blue at Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles; Little Shop of Horrors at Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA; and Ruby in the Dust at Deli Gallery, New York. Rubenstein will curate an exhibition at Venus, New York upcoming in summer 2024, and will have an exhibition at Tanya Leight...

RYAN WALLACE ’s (b. 1977) mixed media paintings conjure an ethereal space between the material and intangible. Repurposing fragments from earlier and developing pieces, the artist seams, layers, excavates, and manipulates the surface of his work to incorporate a wealth of textures and techniques. By limiting his resources, Wallace has developed a rich process-based practice whereby each body of wo...

Portrait of the artist. Photo credit: Jenny Gorman Elizabeth Hazan is a New York based visual artist. Hazan was awarded a fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has twice been a resident of Yaddo. Recent shows include High Noon , at the Duck Creek Art Center in Springs, NY, Heat Wave at Johannes Vogt Gallery, NY, Body to Land at Turn Gallery, NY, Psychedelic Landscape at...

Asad Raza (born in Buffalo, USA) creates dialogues and rejects disciplinary boundaries in his work, which conceives of art as a metabolic, active experience. Diversion , first shown at Kunsthalle Portikus in 2022, diverted a river through the gallery. Absorption , in which cultivators create artificial soil, was the 34th Kaldor Public Art Project in Sydney (2019), later shown at the Gropius Bau, B...

Portrait of the Artist. Courtesy of Uprise Art. Devon Reina (b. 1996) is a Brooklyn, New York-based artist and designer. Devon’s cross-disciplinary background inspires his curiosity for materiality and process. His paintings celebrate a range of versatile media, from thick paint impastos, to expressive ink washes and delicate wax pastel line-work. Across his various bodies of work, Devon is intere...

Mark Yang’s colorful, incongruous arrays of anonymous limbs entangled together investigate the nuances of human interaction through a critical lens of art history. Morphing and distorting idealized figures into conglomerates of body parts, Yang’s forms exhibit a sculptural quality, the result of the artist’s thoughtful rendering of plane, dimension, and space. Reducing, dismantling, and reassembli...

Andrew Edlin Andrew Edlin , owner of his eponymously named gallery and the Outsider Art Fair talks about the current show at the gallery and the upcoming fair. Unaccompanied Conversations explores the work of three artists: the now acclaimed Outsider James Castle, Pearl Blauvelt, and John Byam, all of whom were untrained and from modest circumstances, yet developed unique approaches to their art u...

Tiril Hasselknippe is a sculptor working with steel, concrete, fiberglass, and resin who proposes object-based solutions to evade humanity’s downfall and whose sculptures command authority of physical presence through their sheer volume, scale, and weight. Her sculpture is rooted in material and textual world that balances deeply personal exploration with socio-political underpinnings—at times see...

Photo by Yael Malka Emma Safir (b. 1990 NYC) Safir makes paintings that utilize fabric manipulation, lens–based media, smocking, rasterization, upholstery, and digitization. Her paintings function as screen simulations, proxies and portals. Safir is interested in hierarchies of labor in relation to gender and digitization. Safir holds a BFA from RISD in Printmaking and an MFA from Yale in Painting...

The Thing in Front of You , an exhibition of unique photocollages and small-scale wall sculptures by artist Sandi Haber Fifield, will be on view at Yancey Richardson from January 11 through February 17, 2024. Sandi Haber Fifield was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1956. She holds an MFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums t...

Oda Jaune Portrait 2024 © Charles Roussel For her first solo exhibition in the United States, the rare and uncanny Oda Jaune unveils a challenging exhibition in New York. “Miss Understand” offers a series of nearly 25 new oil paintings and dozens of watercolors, on a singular perception of the woman in our time.   Oda Jaune, Bulgarian in origin and trained in Germany, has for nearly 15 years been...

Molly Lowe (b. 1983, Palo Alto, CA) received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She has had solo exhibitions and performances at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo, Sweden; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles CA; Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY; SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York; an...

Devin B. Johnson  (b. 1992, Los Angeles) obtained his BA in Fine Arts from the California State University of Channel Islands (2015) and received a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute (2019). In addition to being named a 2023 Artist-in-Residence for Fountainhead, Miami, he was selected as an Artsy Vanguard (2022),  named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Art and Design (2022) list, was included in Culture...

Photo credit: Lamar Landers Sydney G. James (b. 1979, Detroit, MI) is a fine arts painter and muralist living and working in Detroit. James began her career as art director of an advertising agency after earning her BFA from Detroit’s College of Creative Studies in 2001. In 2004, James moved to Los Angeles to work as a visual artist in the film and television industry and earned a master’s degree...

Donna Green, photo by Joe Kramm Donna Green wrestles with coils of stoneware, manipulating and prodding to create anthropomorphic gestural shapes that burst and stretch into space. Her physical experimentation challenges the properties of the clay, resulting in works that seem to be in a constant state of growth and transfiguration; heroically scaled urns undulate and drip with layer upon layer of...

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...