Interviews by Brainard Carey

Marek Wolfryd

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marek Wolfryd (b.1989, Mexico City) lives and works in Mexico City. He is a multidisciplinary artist that explores the intersection of artistic and ec...

Riley Holloway

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Riley Holloway Riley Holloway studied Graphic Design at The Art Institute of Dallas, during which time he completed a Portrait Workshop at The Flor...

Violeta Maya

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Violeta Maya (b. 1993, Madrid, Spain) lives and works in Madrid and received her BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2015. Rece...

Diane Burko

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Diane Burko’s work in painting, photography, and time-based media considers the marks that human conversations make on the landscape. A Professor Em...

Aaron Gilbert

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Photography by Balarama Heller Aaron Gilbert (b. 1979, Altoona, PA) lives and works between New York and Los Angeles. Gilbert received a BFA in pai...

Rei Xiao

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rei Xiao was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and earned her BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, with ...

Elias Mung’ora

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At first glance, Mung'ora's work offers glimpses into everyday life in Nairobi, capturing moments ranging from bustling cityscapes to intimate portrai...

Graham Marks

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Graham Marks produces exuberant, coil-built ceramics adorned with vibrant glazes, which combine functionalism with visual delight. Of late, Marks has ...

Adam Erlbaum

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Erlbaum received a BA in Mathematics from The Colorado College in 2002.  He has attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Univers...

Emil Lukas

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emil Lukas Infinite Edge 6 February – 15 March 2025 New York, NY – 9 January 2025: Sperone Westwater is pleased to present new work by Emil Lukas....

Stephanie H. Shih

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie H. Shih in the studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2025. Photo: Robert Bredvad Stephanie H. Shih (b. 1986, Philadelphia, PA) renders outdated consumer ...

David Humphrey

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Humphrey has maintained a forty-year commitment to making formally inventive, psycho-socially engaged paintings. Over this time he has  continu...

Amy Stober

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Stober (b. 1994, New Jersey) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include PAGE (NYC), New York (2024); A.D. NYC, New York (2022)...

Irina Lotarevich

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Irina Lotarevich’s (*1991, lives and works in Vienna, Austria) sculptural practice is shaped by the intersection of her own subjective experience wi...

Tess Bilhartz

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tess Bilhartz grew up in Dallas, Texas and currently lives and works in New York City where she teaches art at Borough of Manhattan Community College ...

Taher Asad-Bakhtiari

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Taher Asad Bakhtiari (Iranian, b. 1982)  Tribal Weave Project offers a contemporary distillation of the kilim flatweaves and densely-knotted gabbeh r...

Marcelle Reinecke

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marcelle Reinecke in the studio, 2024 Marcelle Reinecke (b. 1989, New Orleans, LA) received an MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ...

Leo Frontini

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Leo Frontini , Photo by Scott MacDonough Leo Frontini (b. 2000, Cleveland, OH) has found painting to be an escape from reality while also bringing ...

Antonia Caicedo Holguin

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Antonia Caicedo Holguín photographed by Imogen Forte. Antonia Caicedo Holguín (b. 1997 in Colombia) is deeply influenced by her hometown of Cali,...

Ana González

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ana Gonzalez, Photo byJuan Moore Ana González’s artistic practice celebrates the landscapes of her native Colombia and her partnerships with the...

Benjamin Bertocci

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Benjamin Bertocci has been living and working in N.Y.C. since 2005. He was raised in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, attended Bard College at Simon’s Ro...

Matthew Leifheit

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Leifheit, Photo by Shala Miller Matthew Leifheit is an American photographer, magazine editor, and professor based in Brooklyn, New York. A...

Mark van Yetter

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark van Yetter (b. 1978) lives and works in the Poconos, PA. Van Yetter co-founded exhibition space Marquise Dance Hall (2007-2015), which started as...

Gretchen Scherer

11 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gretchen Scherer  (b. 1979, Indianapolis, IN) received a MFA from Hunter College, NY and a BFA from The University of Illinois at Chicago, IL. Scher...

Paula Siebra

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Paula Siebra is a Brazilian painter born in Fortaleza, Ceará, in 1998. The artist focuses on images related to everyday life and scenes of intimacy u...

Lily Ramírez

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Born in Los Angeles, Lily Ramírez’s painting practice has always hinged on her fascination with the with paint. She began working in acrylics at ...

James Little

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

James Little (b. 1952, Memphis, TN) holds a BFA from the Memphis Academy of Art and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is a 2009 recipient of the Joa...

Jerri Allyn

28 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A citizen of the world, Jerri Allyn (she/he/shimmher) is a community-based artist, educator, and activist who promotes civic engagement. Her work prov...

Jim Osman

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Osman was born in New York City. He received a BA & MFA from Queens College. He has had solo exhibitions at McKenzie Fine Art, Robischon Gallery, ...

Bumin Kim

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bumin Kim is originally from South Korea and received her MFA in Drawing and Painting in 2015 from the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. In 20...

Kelly Reemtsen

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kelly Reemtsen (b. 1967, Flint, Michigan) is best known for her bright and bold paintings of women carrying household tools such as chainsaws or axes....

Bernd Zimmer

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bernd Zimmer, born in Planegg in 1948, was a co-initiator of the Berlin Galerie am Moritzplatz, founded in 1977, and is a representative of “Heftige...

Elise Engler

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elise Engler’s art ranges from the personal to the political, to various combinations of those elements. Her work consists of meticulous, highly pic...

Ever Baldwin

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ever Baldwin lives and works in Catskill, NY. They hold a BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from The School of The...

Anne Brandhøj

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anne Brandhøj with the interactive sculptures she created for Designmuseum Danmark, which are permanently installed in the museum's garden. An...

Hilary Irons

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hilary Irons is a Maine-based painter and curator. She is gallery and exhibitions director at the University of New England. Hilary received an MFA ...

Alyina Zaidi

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alyina Zaidi at Alexander Berggruen, NY, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Alyina Zaidi (b. 1995, New Delhi, India) holds a...

Robert Szot

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Szot (b. 1976)  has exhibited his work in many  galleries across the United States from New York to Los Angeles and Texas. Szot's paintings have ...

Monica Bonvicini

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Portrait Monica BonviciniCourtesy the artist, © Monica Bonvicini and VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2022 / Photo by Olaf Heine Born in Venice, Italy, Monica Bon...

Jammie Holmes

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jammie Holmes in his Dallas studio, 2024. Photo by  Daisy Avalos Morning Thoughts takes its title from a 1981 Gil Scott-Heron song by the same nam...

Michael Iveson

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

portrait_Henri-Kisielewski Michael Iveson (b. 1984, Northern Ireland) lives and works in London. Iveson is a painter, printmaker and installation a...

Kati Gegenheimer

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kati Gegenheimer, photograph by Mark Gibson Kati Gegenheimer was born in Bucks County, PA, in 1984 and lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, where s...

Francine Tint

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Francine Tint In the Studio Over more than five decades, Francine Tint has created a remarkable body of work. Her paintings display an exhilarating...

Mala Iqbal

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mala Iqbal was born in the Bronx in 1973 and grew up in a household where three cultures and four languages intersected. "The Edge of an Encounter," ...

Robin Kid

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

©Studio ROBIN KID - Portrait of the artist at his studio in the Paris area.  Robin Kid (b. 1991), is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist from Du...

Adam Simon

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Simon (born Hampstead, England, 1952) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY, known both for his paintings and for projects addressing the pres...

Soumya Netrabile

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Soumya Netrabile (b. 1966, Bangalore, India) received a BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutger...

Hein Koh

12 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hein Koh (b. 1976, Jersey City, N.J.) lives and works in Brooklyn. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a dual B.A. in studio art and psychology ...

Dike Blair

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dike Blair (b. 1952, New Castle, Pennsylvania) uses gouache, oil, his own photographs, and strategies appropriated from Postminimalist sculpture to cr...

Maja Ruznic

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Photo by Brad Trone Maja Ruznic (b. Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1983) fuses personal narrative, psychoanalysis, mythology, and esoteric thought into vi...

Leora Fridman

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

By Danielle Durchslag October 6, 2024 Leora Fridman Leora Fridman is a writer whose work is concerned with issues of identity, care, dis/ability...

Margaret Cogswell

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Margaret Cogswell- In Mother’s yukata, giving presentation on my work in Japanese at the opening for my mixed media installation- Karasu to Issyoni ...

Anthony Cudahy

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Artist Portrait by Alexander Bedder Anthony Cudahy (b.1989, Fort Myers, Florida, US) received a BFA from Pratt Institute, NY in 2011 and completed an...

Pieter Schoolwerth

21 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pieter Schoolwerth. Photo by Jason Mandella. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York. Pieter Schoolwerth (b. 1970, St. Louis, Missouri) lives and ...

Torey Akers

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Torey Akers is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art and an MFA in Creative Nonfictio...

Sasha Sykes

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sasha Sykes (b.1976) is an Irish artist with a research-based practice in rural Ireland, at the foothills of the Wicklow mountains. Her artworks and f...

Louise P. Sloane

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Louise P. Sloane (b. 1952) has been active as an abstract painter since 1974, infusing her works with personal text that motivates her own experimenta...

Howard Fishman

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howard Fishman is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times, where he has published essays on music, film, theater, literature,...

Jen DeLuna

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jen DeLuna in her studio Jen DeLuna (b. 1999), a Filipino and Colombian-American painter, explores the feminine through the lenses of affinity and ...

Sarah Brenneman

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Brenneman (b.1975, Middletown, OH) lives and works in West Orange, New Jersey. She received her degrees in painting from Columbus College of Art...

Elias Wessel

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elias Wessel in front of his work series “Nostalgia” at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York. Elias Wessel is an artist wh...

Jack Arthur Wood

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Arthur Wood in his studio. Photo by Bradley Marshall Jack Arthur Wood Jr. is a visual artist, writer, curator and educator based in Ridgewood,...

Martina Grlić

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Martina Grlić (b. 1982, Croatia) was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia. She has exhibited at Fragment Gallery, New York, USA; Mu...

Kejoo Park

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kejoo Park (B.1956, Daejeon, Korea) lives and works in Frankfurt and New York. She earned a BFA in Painting from Cornell University, studied at Pratt ...

David Allan Peters

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David Allan Peters in his studio, 2022. David Allan Peters (b. 1969 in Cupertino, CA) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Franci...

David Anaya Maya

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David Anaya Maya was born in Bogot. D.C., raised in rural Colombia, and currently lives and works in New York City. After graduating as ‘Maestroʼ f...

Florencia Escudero

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Florencia Escudero's sculptures include soft and handmade components printed with digitally-rendered imagery.  Feminist theory, cyber culture, and an...

Areum Yang

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Areum Yang (b. 1994 Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in New York) graduated from Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea in 2017 and from the Hunter ...

Raquel Rabinovich

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Raquel Rabinovich is a New York-based, Argentinian-American artist known for her monochromatic paintings and drawings as well as for her large-scale g...

Nana Wolke

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nana Wolke by Inna Svyatsky / installshots.art Nana Wolke explores the nature of perception, focusing her attention on modes of apprehension of spa...

Will Stovall

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will Stovall (Ph.D. Yale University, 2018; M.F.A. Bard College, 2025) is an artist based in Washington, DC. He completed a dissertation on the institu...

Gail Spaien

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gail Spaien lives in South Portland, Maine. She earned her B.F.A. from the University of Southern Maine and her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Inst...

Michael Gac Levin

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Gac Levin was born in Los Angeles in 1984. The artist earned an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2015 and a BA from the University of Chicago in 20...

Michael Ambron

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Ambron is a painter and paint maker who works through wildly experimental and meditative approaches to making in order to hone in on a kind of...

Diego Singh

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Portrait by Sandy Levy Diego Singh (b. 1982, Salta, Argentina) has exhibited his work at the de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; Museum of Contempora...

Raúl Guerrero

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Photo: Elon Schoenholz, courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery For over four decades, Raúl Guerrero (b. 1945, Brawley, California) has made work inf...

Alison Kudlow

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alison Kudlow (b. 1981) lives and works in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from the University of Southern California, a post-baccalaureate degree from Bran...

Sari Carel

18 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sari Carel, Portrait. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. Courtesy KODA Sari Carel is a Brooklyn-based, interdisciplinary artist and environmental activis...

Alan Belcher

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Belcher, courtesy of Hunt Gallery Alan Belcher's concept-based work is decidedly multi-layered and object oriented. He has been recognized in th...

Alexander Brewington

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Brewington (b. 1996, Silver Spring, MD), lives and works in Ridgewood, NY. He holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, and a BFA in visual art fro...

Marianne Nielsen

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Marianne Nielsen Marianne Nielsen crafts delicate ceramic arrangements, which expose the synthetic and psychological aspects of the natural world. Th...

Melvin Way

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Photo credit: portrait Melvin Way 1994, ARS artists rights society @ 2024 photo Andrew Castrucci, Melvin Way estate. This is an interview with the ...

Polly Shindler

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Polly Shindler (New Haven, 1977) received her M.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute and her B.A. in History from University of Massachusetts. She ha...

Natasza Niedziółka

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Natasza Niedziolka Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, NewYork/Los Angeles For nearly ten years, Niedziółka has primarily worked with embroidery ...

Ricky Armendariz

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Armendariz was born in El Paso, Texas. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and MFA from the University of Colorado at Boul...

Trudy Benson

24 Apr 2024

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Trudy Benson Trudy Benson received her Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in 2010 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth ...

Debbi Kenote

17 Apr 2024

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Debbi Kenote in her studio, Brooklyn, NY. 2023. Photograph by Anastasiya Shelest. Courtesy the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York. Debbi ...

Jakub Tomáš

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jakub Tomáš was born in Jihlava, Czech Republic, where he lives and works. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the Academy of Fine Ar...

C’naan Hamburger

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

C’naan Hamburger (b. 1984, Jerusalem, Israel; lives and works in New York, NY. MFA Painting Hunter College, 2023. BA, Tufts University, 2007.) Hambu...

Khalilah Birdsong

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Khalilah Birdsong (b. 1977, Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, USA) is a visual artist who creates large-scale abstract paintings and ins...

Sara Stern

10 Apr 2024

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Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Her recent projects prod histories of urban development with speculative fiction. Stern ...

Elizabeth Heyert

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Heyert , photo credit Nina Subin Elizabeth Heyert is an American photographer known for her experimental portrait projects. Formerly a wo...

Tony Bechara

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Bechara, April 29 2018, ©Maku-Lopez Tony Bechara’s dynamic, color-saturated paintings create a pure field of physical perception. You can see...

Michael Dayton Hermann

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New York based multidisciplinary artist Michael Dayton Hermann creates work that draws upon the inescapable bombardment of digital imagery to confront...

Vincent Donato

27 Mar 2024

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Vincent Donato Roselli (b. 1995) is a self-taught artist from Staten Island, NY. His first exposure to painting was graffiti, and he continues to inc...

Chase Biado

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chase Biado, 2023, Photo by Ed Mumford Chase Biado said bridging fantasy and art once felt off limits, as if he were “smuggling childhood interes...

Dapper Bruce Lafitte

20 Mar 2024

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Dapper Bruce Lafitte (b. 1972 New Orleans) is a self-trained artist who began making and showing work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to commemo...

Mathieu Malouf

13 Mar 2024

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Mathieu Malouf "I am genuinely trying to make beautiful paintings. Not beautiful by contemporary standards of beauty, but something more atemporal or...

Tom Burckhardt

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Burckhardt was born in New York City in 1964. He attended SUNY Purchase and graduated with a BFA in painting in 1986, after which he attended the ...

Ad Minoliti & Catalina Schliebener Muñoz

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz BARRO NY is pleased to present “Manifesto of Immature Abstraction,” an exhibition featuring the works of Ad Minolit...