Space

INTERVIEW | Seoyoung Kim

INTERVIEW | Seoyoung Kim

Seoyoung Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and curator based in Brooklyn. Her practice is a continuing examination of surroundings and site relativity that comes from the placement of things. Her work, when placed in a chosen site, documents a triangular relationship between site, thing, and viewer.  She is also the founding director of Site, a curation service dedicated to building communities.

INTERVIEW | Juyi Mao

INTERVIEW | Juyi Mao

Juyi Mao's artistic practice is deeply entrenched in exploring the alchemy of moving images and sound across varied formats. Mao is intrigued by the relationships that exist between people, space, and objects within contemporary life and socio-political contexts. His mixed media art installations are platforms where he dissects the essence of art and media, effectively bridging the gap between the artist and the audience.

INTERVIEW | Andi Zhang

INTERVIEW | Andi Zhang

Andi Zhang is an architectural designer and a visual artist in the architecture field. Andi focuses on using unconventional methods to dive into architecture. Instead of designing conventional independent buildings, she is trying to use other components to build up architecture. Her project Vision is designed as a narrative museum about Movies in Los Angeles.

INTERVIEW | Jiaming Zhang

INTERVIEW | Jiaming Zhang

Jiaming Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in America. He is an avid observer and constantly draws inspiration from the space and dynamics around him.In his latest series, Space #, Zhang uses simple lines to express his environmental awareness on canvas. Sensual and innately, exposed to the space, each painting carries its own emotional tone and narrative - just like every inch of air, with a unique smell, movement, and mood.

INTERVIEW | Linda Aquaro

INTERVIEW | Linda Aquaro

Linda Aquaro is an Italian architect and painter based in Rome. Her research is strongly focused on figurative art and portraiture. The artist is fascinated by the relationship between the volumes of the face and space and loves experimenting with different languages, from the most traditional ones (such as painting and engraving) to the most contemporary such as digital graphics, or the combination of multiple techniques.

INTERVIEW | Noah Spivak

INTERVIEW | Noah Spivak

Noah Spivak is a Canadian artist, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. His fascination with the human senses, the ambiguity of everyday life, and the space in which the art experience occurs culminate in a body of work exploring how we experience visual art and the subconscious decisions we make leading up to this moment.

INTERVIEW | Marina Wittemann

INTERVIEW | Marina Wittemann

Marina Wittemann is a Russian artist, currently based in Germany. Her art is inspired by the ability to perceive the world through complex experiences of color, space, and time. This volumetric pictorial color field is an opportunity to perceive events, feelings, and emotions through synesthesia. She works with paintings as well as sculptures and is influence by various different cultures and techniques.

INTERVIEW | Carolina Serrano

INTERVIEW | Carolina Serrano

Carolina Serrano is a Portuguese artist whose artistic practice develops in the field of sculpture. Serrano’s theoretical research revolves around the sphere of the temporality of Sculpture. The artist is particularly interested in working on the disturbing and mysterious cleavage between what is real and what is illusory, between what is visible and what is invisible, between what is palpable and what is immaterial.

INTERVIEW | Syl Arena

INTERVIEW | Syl Arena

Syl Arena is a California-based artist known for his explorations of non-representational photography. He freely admits that he is addicted to color and shadow. In his current series, Constructed Voids, Arena deconstructs white light into vibrant hues and mixes them onto monochromatic constructs. Through the intersection of light, construct, and lens, Arena finds transformative relationships that he describes as “inner landscapes.”

INTERVIEW | Aristo Vopĕnka

INTERVIEW | Aristo Vopĕnka

Aristo Vopĕnka explores the boundaries between photography, illustration, painting, and print. Using an experimental attitude towards these different media, new forms of expression take place. They are the beginning of a contemporary reinterpretation of expressionism which he has started to call experiential expressionism.

INTERVIEW | Mike Steinhauer

INTERVIEW | Mike Steinhauer

Mike Steinhauer is a photographer, conceptual artist, blogger, and arts administrator who is keenly interested in the environment within which he lives. Mike is particularly interested in the relationship between past and present use (and perception) of object and space. His most recent work is an investigation into memory—both as it is created and re-experienced.