Xin Song creates modern paper-cut works that borrow imagery from contemporary magazines. The artist uses the Chinese folk paper technique (originally called Jianzhi) to challenge our taboos, our relationship with society, and the way we think about ourselves. Song builds collages around certain narratives such as current affairs, politics, war, health, beauty, fashion, poverty, luxury, […]
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Marcus Cadman is a Native American painter of Navajo and Kickapoo heritage, working primarily with acrylic on canvas and paper. He also makes modern sculptures and with the recent completion of a Relief Woodcarving class in the spring of 2011 is about to venture more into the carving aspects of sculpture. He mainly exhibits at art
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Charles McGill is a multidisciplinary artist whose roots are based in painting. The majority of his work falls under the auspices of what the artist refers to as “The Artifacts from the Former Black Militant Golf and Country Club,” a conceptually-based body of work that incorporates golf objects—mostly golf bags—into statements that explore race, politics,
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Aisha Cousins is a Brooklyn based artist of Afro-American and Caribbean descent who writes performance art scores as a means of creating socially engaged art projects which explore the evolution of black American culture. Her work has been performed independently on the streets of historically black neighborhoods from BedStuy (Brooklyn) to Brixton (London) as well
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As a multiracial woman, I often get the benefit of the doubt for being inclusive. I’m a one-person diversity solution and occasionally, spokesperson. I’m not sure it’s deserved. I have blind spots. I sometimes make incorrect assumptions based on the way someone looks or where they are from or their level of education, and get
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Over the years we’ve thrown over a dozen art shows, in multiple cities, with a wide range of attendance, sales, and press and have learned a lot about what works, and what doesn’t. Have we mastered it? Not at all. Every event is a learning experience, and an opportunity to test new ideas. But here are
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Steve Wasterval is a classically trained painter and scholar on the ugly, dirty, grittiness that is New York City, with a focus on commercial art, street art, and graffiti. Steve was traditionally trained in Russian impressionist, plein-air landscape painting, and his mentors are likely shaking their heads in disbelief. Steve also co-founded Worstofall Design, a
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