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Lorna Simpson: Momentum, 2011

Lorna Simpson: Momentum, 2011

Lorna Simpson presents her work, Momentum, 2011, at the Paramount Pictures Studio, during the Frieze LA 2020. Feb 14 - 16, 2020 The Paramount Pictures Studio, 5515 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038 Lorna Simpson: in the studio Lorna Simpson talks to Frieze about her life and work in her Brooklyn studio. Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s through her pioneering approach to conceptual photography, which featured striking juxtapositions of text and staged images and raised

Ann Veronica Janssens: HOT PINK TURQUOISE

Ann Veronica Janssens: HOT PINK TURQUOISE

Light effects, mists, colour trails & reflective optical illusions. The Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens' (f. 1956) mission is to push our perceptions of the known. As an artist, Ann Veronica Janssens works almost scientifically to push the boundaries of the known. Although her art is not easy to classify, its effect on us as viewers is not to be mistaken. For her, it's not about confirming what we already know. In fact, it aims to locate us precisely at the spot where we

At home with Deborah Irmas--collector, curator and art advisor

At home with Deborah Irmas--collector, curator and art advisor

Deborah Irmas collector, curator and art advisor How it is to live with an immersive digital artwork? ArtPlay: I remember you former apt, when you got off the elevator you immediately were confronted by this incredible digital artwork that completely engulfed you in the beautiful light in the entry space. DI: It was a trip, people got off the elevator and thought - where am I? Visitors would often just stand there - like, What’s gong on here? The video set them up so when the

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: ONE LAST TRIP TO THE UNDERWORLD

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: ONE LAST TRIP TO THE UNDERWORLD

Spanning both of the gallery’s floors, this much anticipated show will be Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s first solo exhibition in New York since 2013 and will be the worldwide premiere of four new video works. Djurberg and Berg’s collaborative works conjure surreal landscapes that explore the shadows of human subconsciousness. Using sculpture, stop-motion film, sound, and immersive installation the artists construct narratives that speak to emotional tension, confliction,

Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again

New 20th Anniversary Exhibition: The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse

New 20th Anniversary Exhibition: The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse

The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, a pioneering force in contemporary art in Miami, presents its 20th Year Anniversary of public exhibitions. Since it’s inauguration in 1999 theWarehouse has welcomed visitors from South Florida and all over the world. The Warehouse exhibitions showcase art of our times featuring 20th & 21st century sculpture, photography, video, painting and large-scale installations by international artists culled from the renowned collection of Mart

Alexandre Singh - A Gentle Horror

Alexandre Singh - A Gentle Horror

Alexandre Singh’s first major exhibition at Metro Pictures features the New York premiere of his short film The Appointment (2019, 19 min). Singh transforms the gallery into an abandoned cinema from an imagined dystopic future. With trompe l’oeil wallpaper and flooring that is painstakingly hand-drawn, the exhibition includes sculpture and paintings that refer to the macabre vernacular of the film. The works further Singh’s ideas around narrative and storytelling, which he fi

Monica Lacy - living with video art in Los Angeles

Monica Lacy - living with video art in Los Angeles

Monica Lacy Los Angeles based collector ArtPlay: How long have you been collecting contemporary art? Monica: I’ve been collecting art for about 15 years. I was first interested in paintings and then changed my focus to photography. I found artists working with the newest digital technology and camera-less photography to be the most interesting. ArtPlay: How did you become interested in video art and media based art? Monica: I saw the work of the LA based, video artist Brian B

Remembering Blake Byrne

Remembering Blake Byrne

In 2005, Blake donated 123 artworks to MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), the largest donation to this day. Working with the curator, Paul Schimmel, together they selected important works that the museum coveted such as a Gordon Matta-Clark building fragment along with a prized video, Drumroll, by the filmmaker and video artist, Steve McQueen. Blake was also instrumental in expanding the contemporary art collection at the Nasher Museum at Duke University as the founding chair

REICH RICHTER PÄRT - THE SHED

REICH RICHTER PÄRT - THE SHED

The Reich Richter collaboration, a Shed commission, examines the intersection between Richter’s formula for his “Patterns” series and Reich’s rigorous, repeating musical structures in a genre-crossing moving picture work made in collaboration with Corinna Belz and featuring the world premiere of a new Reich composition. In his “Patterns” series, Richter repeatedly divides and mirrors a computer image of an abstract painting to further abstract the work, ending in solid bands

Petra Cortright - PINK_PARA_1STCHOICE - TIMES SQUARE

Petra Cortright - PINK_PARA_1STCHOICE - TIMES SQUARE

Petra Cortright’s core practice is the creation and distribution of digital and physical images using consumer or corporate software. Whether she is manipulating digital files into two-dimensional paintings in Photoshop or uploading videos to online platforms, the Internet is deeply ingrained in Cortright’s work. She became renowned for making self-portrait videos that use her computer’s webcam and default effects tools, which she would upload to YouTube and caption with spam

ALEX PRAGER - PLAY THE WIND - LEHMANN MAUPIN GALLERY

ALEX PRAGER - PLAY THE WIND - LEHMANN MAUPIN GALLERY

Well established for her genre-defying approach to image making that timelessly combines eras, cultural references, and personal experiences, the photographs and the film debuted in this exhibition are a fresh reflection on Prager’s place of origin, site of inspiration, and frequent character—the city of Los Angeles … In Prager’s newest film, Play the Wind, we are led on a journey throughout Los Angeles with our protagonists Dimitri Chamblas (dean of the Sharon Disney Lund Sc

Laurie Anderson Interview: A Virtual Reality of Stories

Laurie Anderson Interview: A Virtual Reality of Stories

In this exclusive video, Laurie Anderson presents her prizewinning virtual reality work from 2017: “I wanted to see what it would be like to travel through stories, to make the viewer feel free,” the legendary multimedia artist says. Laurie Anderson’s ‘Chalkroom’ (2017) has been created in collaboration with the Taiwanese artist Hsin-Chien Huang. In ‘Chalkroom’ it is possible to float around virtually and to explore a hand-drawn universe of sentences and words written in chal

Studio Visit with Ed Atkins

Studio Visit with Ed Atkins

Berlin Art Link Productions visited Ed Atkins' studio to talk about his working process and how he culls through a mass of ideas to reach his final, holistic exhibition. British, Berlin-based artist Ed Atkins' HD videos and text-based works create worlds simultaneously hyper-real and undeniably artificial. His current exhibition 'Old Food' at Martin-Gropius-Bau is no exception: the video works presented in the show are without concrete narrative but evoke a melancholic emotio

Jon Rafman & Hans Ulrich Obrist | DLD 19

Zaria Forman - Perspective

Zaria Forman - Perspective

Known for her impeccably naturalistic pastel drawings, Zaria Forman finds inspiration in remote landscapes and environmentally sensitive locations. Her drawings include carefully rendered images of glistening icebergs, turbulent arctic waters, and crashing tropical waves. She has traveled extensively in Greenland and the Maldives to both collect material for her drawings and raise awareness about climate change. ABOUT THE ARTIST Zaria Forman documents climate change with past

Bill Viola Interview: Cameras are Keepers of the Souls

Bill Viola Interview: Cameras are Keepers of the Souls

When video artist Bill Viola was 6 years old he fell into a lake, all the way to the bottom, to a place which seemed like paradise. "There's more than just the surface of life." Viola explains. "The real things are under the surface". American Bill Viola (born 1951) is a pioneer in video art. In this interview, Viola talks about his development as an artist and his most important breakthroughs. As a child Bill Viola felt that the world inside his head was more real than the o

Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Studio Museum in Harlem Artist in Residence 2015-2016

Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Studio Museum in Harlem Artist in Residence 2015-2016

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is the author of three books of poems: "19 Names For Our Band" (2008), "James Brown Is Dead" (2011) and "Sleeper Hold" (2015). His projects fuse the visual arts and writing, combing poetic/essayistic texts with video installation, photography and performance, and have been presented at P.S.1/MoMA in New York, the Hammer in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and Southern Exposure in San Francisco, among others. He received a BA in

The 58th Venice Biennale Exhibition: Meet Curator Ralph Rugoff

The 58th Venice Biennale Exhibition: Meet Curator Ralph Rugoff

This year’s prestigious Venice Biennale’s centerpiece exhibition, its 58th, has been curated by Ralph Rugoff, an American art critic who became director of London’s Hayward Gallery. Seeking to assemble artists he felt somehow captured our turbulent, some would say perilous zeitgeist, Rugoff wryly titled the show “May You Live In Interesting Times.” He explains why in this video, shot on-site during the festival’s opening week, and takes us on a tour of a few of the show’s hig

Rachel Rose: Between Living and Non-Living

Rachel Rose: Between Living and Non-Living

Meet the praised New York-based video artist Rachel Rose, who creates visually poetic and multi-layered narratives, exploring different “scales of mortality”: “I try to use myself a bit like a tiny sensor, and then quickly move outside myself to the place that it spots,” she says. Rose believes that all of her video works stem from a question or a feeling, such as fear or unease: “Trying to understand that feeling and connect it to places and time outside myself, to deepen it