https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews daily 1.0 2026-04-03 https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/truth-and-fantasy-in-conversation-with-dan-bunn monthly 0.5 2026-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/977e618d-bcf7-4b0a-a8c8-5a83ae10c3d7/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.30.24%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 1.1: Dan Bunn, Lovebirds, 2020, oil on board, 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.64 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/71063bf5-6401-4664-8495-14c0f1b86420/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+1.56.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 1.2: Dan Bunn, Lovebirds [detail], 2020, oil on board, 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.64 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/291d3387-f39d-4d34-93c5-2cd2331a2add/SK-A-4090.jpg Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 2: Jan Lievens, Still life with Books, c. 1627–1628, oil on canvas, 47.2 × 36 inches (120 × 91 cm), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SK-A-4090). Photo: courtesy Rijksmuseum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6ea900e3-64a6-42d4-86ab-496c8d43a1bc/SK-A-199.jpg Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 3: Willem Kalf, Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl, 1655–1660, oil on canvas, 29.05 × 25.66 inches (73.8 × 65.2 cm), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SK-A-199). Photo: courtesy Rijksmuseum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/4127da4b-64a8-4f44-b713-4a5bac312b51/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.31.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 4: Dan Bunn, Levitating, 2024, oil on tondo panel, 12 inches (30.48 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/3e0e3619-d7ad-4938-96b5-8878e113228e/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.33.55%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 5: Adam van Vianen, Ewer with scenes depicting the legend of Marcus Curtius, 1619, silver, 9.06 × 5 x 4.75 inches, 23.331 oz. (23 × 12.7 × 12.1 cm, 661.5g). Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and Howard S. and Nancy Marks Gifts; Gift of Irwin Untermyer and funds from various donors, by exchange; From the Marion E. and Leonard A. Cohn Collection, Bequest of Marion E. Cohn, by exchange; Bequest of Bernard M. Baruch and Gift of Mrs. Robert M. Hillas, by exchange; Bequest of John L. Cadwalader and Gifts of Lewis Einstein and William H. Weintraub, by exchange; From the Collection of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper, Bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper and Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, by exchange, 2018 (2018.194a, b). Photo: courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/18d4549f-4f0e-45a7-8d7d-2dc47131ed78/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.34.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 6: Dan Bunn, Anguish, 2022, oil on canvas, 36 × 24 inches (91.44 × 60.96 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/e5cb2dd2-c16e-40c2-b7d4-c0805f2e902f/DanBunn_Liz_18x24inches_redandblackchalk_2023.jpg Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 7: Dan Bunn, Liz, 24 × 18 inches (60.96 × 45.72 cm), 2023, red and black chalk on laid paper. Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/42e7c10f-e3d0-4a0d-a8dc-0d96818c8d75/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.46.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 8: Dan Bunn, Parakeet with fruit, 2022, oil on board, 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.32 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6199e31c-144d-4fa5-8a0e-85612738fb37/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.16.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 9: Dan Bunn, Thai bananas, dragonfruit, coconut, and Berkemeyer glass in a landscape, 2022, oil on board, 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c1a7b50f-1df8-4ce3-bd2d-3ba7f2972926/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.48.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 10: Paolo Veronese, Mars and Venus United by Love, 1570s, oil on canvas, 81 × 63.38 inches (205.7 × 161 cm), John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1910 (10.189). Photo: courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/9578ea32-b60a-4ea8-8217-f7e19573f6e4/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.49.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 11: Louis Mélendez, The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda), ca. 1772, oil on canvas, 41.5 × 60.5 inches (105.4 × 153.7 cm), The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982 (1982.60.39). Photo: courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/24e397c5-8d48-4680-96a3-98118aa7b687/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.55.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 12: Dan Bunn, Alien Fruit, 2020, oil on canvas, 26 × 22 inches (66.04 × 55.88 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c3b4b1ad-60a0-4e67-88b9-bcafba8cc6cd/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.55.39%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 13: Dan Bunn, Lost Marble [detail], 2025, oil and flashe on panel, 12 × 12 inches (30.48 × 30.48 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d96f1989-c0eb-4b69-ad0a-61051b27cd70/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.56.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 14: Dan Bunn, Summer Fruit, 2020, oil on board, 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.64 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/738696ba-3f70-4e9f-9e73-ec26d2d22eec/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.57.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 15: Dan Bunn, Parrot with fruit and a pastry, 2020, oil on linen, 22 × 18 inches (55.88 × 45.72 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/65c29448-2274-4e36-b4bd-7168e3a84ca1/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.57.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 16: Dan Bunn, 86th Street, 2026, oil on linen, 30 × 16 inches (76.2 × 40.64 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/de2000ec-4269-4246-903d-069e389ca811/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.58.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 17: Dan Bunn, Paprika, oil on board, 2020, 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/e32b6049-51c4-4fbd-8d19-960236873ba5/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+12.59.23%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 18: Dan Bunn, Vanitas, 2022, oil on board, 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/96f76721-80ca-4b9d-b790-f14ed177431a/Screenshot+2026-02-25+at+1.04.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Figure 19: Dan Bunn, Aether, oil on linen, 26 × 21 inches (66.04 × 53.34 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Dan Bunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d490d0b4-2aa3-4637-ac14-ba06ccc15733/dan_bunn_bio.jpg Artist Interviews - Truth and Fantasy: In Conversation with Dan Bunn - Make it stand out Dan Bunn Dan Bunn (b. 1991, Madison, WI) is an Brooklyn-based artist. Bunn has been painting since he was a child in southern Wisconsin. In 2014, he received a BFA from California College of the Arts and in 2020 a certificate from Grand Central Atelier in Queens. His work has been collected and exhibited nationally and internationally. Website: https://www.danbunnstudio.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danbunnart/?hl=en https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/billionaire-birthdays-and-optic-time-in-conversation-with-garrett-ball-and-kevin-cobb monthly 0.5 2026-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/fa4241a9-e50a-4b74-8c4e-cfc892fb3aa8/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+10.15.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 1: Garrett Ball, 1000 5th Ave, 2024 watercolor on paper, 46 x 34 inches (116.84 x 86.36 cm), 2024; framed 56 x 34.5 inches (142.24 x 87.63 cm). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/120ec37c-5798-4e22-88e0-3ce520e0c3dd/268-hand-met-spiegelende-bol-zelfportret-in-bolspiegel.webp Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 2: M.C. Escher, Hand with Reflecting Sphere (Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror), January 1935, lithograph, 12.51 × 8.39 inches (31.8 × 21.3 cm). Courtesy Escher in Het Paleis, Hague, Netherlands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/af1e984d-b12a-4d6e-bae9-66fbdaed78c5/THE%2BMACROWAVE-1.webp Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 3: Kevin Cobb, The Macrowave, 2023, oil on linen, 20 x 20 inches (50.8 x 50.8 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kevin Cobb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f68ee62a-e95a-495c-899b-42aeb7fd699b/image-asset.webp Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 4: Kevin Cobb, Orbicular Blurse, 2022, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches (50.8 x 50.8 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kevin Cobb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c3466261-c6a5-4d0b-a4bf-5dd1ddc56053/Rainbow%2BPumpkin.webp Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 5: Kevin Cobb, Rainbow Pumpkin, 2017, oil on canvas, 50 x 44 inches (127 x 111.76 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kevin Cobb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d44daabd-135e-463b-93b4-0bcd15d7c644/03-20250210kevincobb.webp Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 6: Kevin Cobb, Spatium Interiorem, 2025, oil on tondo canvas, 60 inches (152.4 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kevin Cobb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/32a31532-eaae-4b15-859f-0ebfe6fe2237/V1%2Bcopy.webp Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 7: Kevin Cobb, International Geometric: Hyde Park, 2024, oil on linen, 18 x 18 inches (45.72 x 45.72 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kevin Cobb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/2f197412-35af-4ef2-b09f-7516c644e2c7/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+10.33.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 8: Garrett Ball, Terminal, 2023, watercolor and gold leaf on paper, 54 x 32 inches (137.16 x 81.28 cm); framed 56 x 34.5 inches (142.24 x 87.63 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Garrett Ball https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/aa5713ef-c53d-4a75-8ab7-c31342ba6916/Cloudbound.webp Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 9: Kevin Cobb, Cloudbound, 2024, oil on tondo panel, 20 inch (50.8 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kevin Cobb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ef10b140-c637-4720-a310-530c94b8eeb6/manifestation+of+a+hyper+object+single+panel+24x36_+copy+%282%29.jpg Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 10: Garrett Ball, Manifestation of a Hyperobject, 2023, linoleum relief print on paper, 36 x 24 inches (91.44 x 60.96 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Garrett Ball https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d160ee56-b4da-4b2f-9f45-ee67a143c725/manifestation%2Bof%2Ba%2Bhyper%2Bobject%2B+%281%29.jpg Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 11: Garrett Ball, Manifestation of a Hyperobject, 2023, linoleum relief print on paper, 40 x 36 x 24 inches (101.6 x 91.44 x 60.96 cm) tiled, 20 x 12 feet total. Photo: courtesy the artist © Garrett Ball https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/4120a553-1584-4bc7-8661-10b10dab2ce9/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+10.41.32%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 12: Garrett Ball, Brooklyn Bridge, 2025, watercolor on paper, 24 x 18 inches (60.96 x 45.72 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Garrett Ball https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/931cfc24-9185-4e35-b183-7195eab5592b/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+10.44.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 13: Garrett Ball, New York Public Library Rose Reading Room, 476 5th Ave, 2025, watercolor on paper, 44 x 33 inches (111.76 x 83.82 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Garrett Ball https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b918806a-cc99-4911-93d9-8fafc3d1b664/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+10.47.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 14: Garrett Ball, St. Patrick's Study #2, 2025, watercolor on paper, 22 x 18 inches (55.88 x 45.72 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Garrett Ball https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f5a22008-6d29-4eec-a814-7c27595c387b/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+10.49.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 15: Garrett Ball, St. John the divine study 1, 2024, watercolor on paper, 18 x 22 inches (55.88 x 45.72 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Garrett Ball https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f9edb193-ae3b-46bc-be97-1c6ab9d42d45/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+10.51.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 16: Kevin Cobb, LO, 2025, oil, ink, charcoal, graphite, colored pencil, and metallic paint on panel, 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kevin Cobb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c4faefac-5d7f-4711-8b7e-ca285e729ee8/658294b117bcf4f5a1961bd8c9cc385c_0-1.jpg Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 17: Hilma af Klint, Untitled #1, 1915, oil on gold on canvas, private collection. Courtesy ArtReview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/5c308c1b-f0b6-4631-b13b-93a7960261ae/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+10.54.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 18: Kevin Cobb, LO (detail), 2025, oil, ink, charcoal, graphite, colored pencil, and metallic paint on panel, 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kevin Cobb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/3441c173-2f40-41d5-8aec-d5189a4ef5ba/24993192252_0c837a126a_z.webp Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 19: Ernst Mach, Self-portrait, 1886, from Beiträge zu Analyse der Empfindungen (The Analysis of Sensations) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/bf8b17a1-ae53-40a0-80ac-4ec074f64e95/Insta_VFTP_V1.webp Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Figure 20: Kevin Cobb, View from the Pyramid, 2024, intaglio etching on Rives BFK, 6 x 6 inches (15.24 x 15.24 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kevin Cobb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d7d10a43-019f-4d4b-bbba-25b6cc4cc91a/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+10.56.49%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Kevin Cobb Kevin Cobb (b. 1994, Baltimore, MD) is a multidisciplinary artist who works within painting, drawing, 3D modeling, digital animation, and lens-based media. Working at the intersection of perception, technology, and selfhood, Cobb investigates how contemporary modes of seeing, as defined and molded by screens, simulation, and algorithmic conditioning restructures one’s subjectivity. His swirling, multi-perspectival compositions often bend or fragment the viewer’s vantage point, creating destabilized optical spaces that reflect the tension between physical experience and its digital doubles. Cobb received his MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in 2023 and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. His work has been exhibited at 81 Leonard Gallery, New York, as well as in group exhibitions across the U.S. and Europe. In 2025, he presented his first New York solo exhibition, Ekstasis, which brought together paintings and digital works reflecting on displacement, viewership, and the porous boundary between observer and observed. He is a recipient of the Mozaik Future Art Award (2022) for digital art, and he was nominated for a Fulbright Program award in 2016. Cobb’s practice continues to expand the perceptual and conceptual limits of image-making, merging spiritual inquiry with technological experimentation to propose new ways of optically seeing, and being seen, in a mediated world. Website: https://www.kevin-cobb.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forprophet/?hl=en https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/cd827edf-f554-46f4-8de6-441756317f54/Screenshot+2026-01-22+at+10.57.36%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Billionaire Birthdays and Optic Time: In Conversation with Garrett Ball and Kevin Cobb - Make it stand out Garrett Ball With an eye towards architecture, infrastructure, and institutions, Garrett Ball (b. 1991 Denver, Colorado) creates intricate paintings and prints that render these rigid structures as malleable, and multifaceted. In a moment when there are multiple and sometimes conflicting viewpoints for every circumstance, Ball creates kaleidoscopic perspectives that force the viewer to acclimate to that disorientation and embrace a view from multiple places. Inspired by the work of speculative realist philosophers, Ball’s images grapple with the notions of superpositionality, object oriented ontology, and hyperobjects. Focusing on the frameworks for our society and culture, Ball suggests that what may seem rigid or inscrutable, is often fabricated and always subject to change. Rendering these structures as variable tools, is a call to action to the audience to not be intimidated by institutions but to reimagine and adapt them to better serve their function. Born in Colorado (1991) and raised in the Rocky Mountains and on Puerto Rico’s beaches, Ball moved to New York to study theater at SUNY Purchase in 2009. He joined IATSE local USA 829 as a professional scenic artist, Ball has painted on dozens of Broadway and TV/film productions. While painting backdrops and hard scenery professionally, Ball developed his own craft and style. In 2023 he graduated from Columbia University with a masters in fine art, where he was a Neiman Fellow at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies and received the Betty Lee Stern Prize for Artists. Since graduating he has shown in NYC and Miami at the New Collectors Gallery, Half Gallery, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, the Blanc, Storage Archive, and the University of Richmond Museum, among others. He currently lives and works in New York City. Website: https://www.garrettscottball.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ball_artwork/?hl=en https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/the-loves-i-have-known-in-conversation-with-louise-mandumbwa monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/a534d463-2028-4627-9779-06b3720cddba/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+5.55.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 1: Installation view of The Loves I Have Known, 2025, paper, canvas, graphite, ink and charcoal, 60 x 46.5 inches (152.4 x 118.11 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist, Pat Garcia, and Zeshan Ahmed © Louise Mandumbwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b55e51a6-ed75-4f78-90e0-c675637e8fea/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.12.00%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 2: Barkley Hendricks, What’s Going On, 1974, oil, acrylic, and magna on cotton canvas, 65 ¾ x 83 ¾ inches (167 x 212.7 cm). Photo: courtesy the Estate of Barkley Hendricks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/cf84bbf6-4a51-4ed4-944e-ea4e53c9dcd2/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.13.25%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 3: Louise Mandumbwa, Good Immigrant, proto plate print, 2019, 17 x 11 inches (43.18 x 27.94 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Louise Mandumbwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/8f6d8456-d7df-443d-820d-2abcadcc5563/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.15.00%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 4: Louise Mandumbwa, Jacob, 2021, charcoal on paper, 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.88 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Louise Mandumbwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/4f57dcda-55ad-4767-a281-890dff970688/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.16.38%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 5: Louise Mandumbwa, Rre Dodzi, 2021, charcoal on paper, 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.88 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Louise Mandumbwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/70520c11-f60f-4b72-9fa5-60c35c1aa01a/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.17.52%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 6: Installation view of They stole the sweet away, 2023, charcoal on paper; 24 x 18 inches (60.96 x 45.72 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist and Pat Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/929822a3-3380-483e-9c9c-9b973949c0b2/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.18.36%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 7: Configuration 1, 2023, paper, canvas, acrylic, and charcoal, 24 x 18 inches (60.96 x 45.72 cm); 36 x 12 inches (91.44 x 30.48 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist and Zeshan Ahmed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/cb38dbaa-ed51-4908-b732-2554f98192b0/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.20.22%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 8: Installation view of Configuration 1C, 2023, paper, canvas and charcoal, 24 x 18 inches (60.96 x 45.72 cm); 36 x 12 inches (91.44 x 30.48 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist and Pat Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f56f30ea-d4cc-4f02-a4a8-f0da54396a62/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.21.54%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 9: Untitled [detail], 2023, paper, canvas and charcoal, liquid graphite, 36 x 30 inches (91.44 x 76.2 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ea5e5f6c-b9ea-45ea-b552-6b2d19e278d1/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.23.08%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 8: Louise Mandumbwa, Configuration 1, 2023, paper, canvas, concrete, plexiglass, acrylic, gouache and charcoal, 12 x 12 inches (30.48 x 30.48 cm); 22.5 x 19 inches (57.15 x 48.26 cm); 16 x 6 inches (40.64 x 15.24 cm); 24 x 18 inches (60.96 x 45.72 cm); 36 x 12 inches (91.44 x 30.48 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist and Pat Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f2f4ffb4-4cf3-437a-ac92-a8d07f03a888/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.24.15%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 11: Louise Mandumbwa, Something to Hold Onto, 2024, cast aluminum and carborundum, dimensions variable. Photo: courtesy the artist and Pat Garcia © Louise Mandumbwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/1d33b9a0-ee61-443d-a9c1-b51a235b704a/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.25.33%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 12: Louise Mandumbwa, Something to Hold Onto, 2024, cast aluminum and carborundum, dimensions variable. Photo: courtesy the artist and Pat Garcia © Louise Mandumbwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/56f27fc7-2856-4818-8f86-391c33bc84f4/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.26.27%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 13: Louise Mandumbwa, The loves I have ever known [detail], 2024, paper, canvas, graphite, ink and charcoal, 60 x 46.5 inches (152.4 x 118.11 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Louise Mandumbwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/2144091f-a825-4884-8517-f9711851e0f0/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.27.19%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 14: Louise Mandumbwa, The loves I have known, 2024, paper, canvas, graphite, ink and charcoal, 60 x 46.5 inches (152.4 x 118.11 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist, Pat Garcia, and Zeshan Ahmed © Louise Mandumbwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/2a970e56-558c-4b69-94f3-1e9564f84f02/Screenshot+2025-11-29+at+9.02.34%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 14: Louise Mandumbwa, Tell me something true, 2024, acrylic and oil on canvas, gouache and oil on paper, 20 x 16 inches (36 x 48 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist, Pat Garcia, and Zeshan Ahmed © Louise Mandumbwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ccb87bfc-66f5-4d08-9246-7293236bf53e/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.30.43%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Figure 15: Louise Mandumbwa, End notes, 2024, concrete, wheat paste and newsprint, 14 x 66 x 3 inches (35.56 x 167.64 x 7.62 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist, Pat Garcia, and Zeshan Ahmed © Louise Mandumbwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f2a85dec-6c86-4463-9e40-d10880b09ad5/Screenshot+2025-11-28+at+11.31.32%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Loves I Have Known: In Conversation with Louise Mandumbwa - Make it stand out Photo: Arielle Gray https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/the-in-between-moments-in-conversation-with-nadia-younes monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/0decba78-9e77-470d-b835-8282edf81b8a/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.05.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 1: Nadia Younes, Distilled Emptiness, 2024, oil on panel, 48 x 48 inches (121.92 x 121.92 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/79df5402-5277-49a8-b891-06c136300819/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.06.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 2: Nadia Younes, Nature of Matter, 2022, oil on panel, 8 x 6 feet (243.84 x 182.88 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/048a4383-0b88-4147-953b-0c87c0776249/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.06.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 3: Nadia Younes, Past Observation Process, 2022, 8 × 6 inches (20.32 × 15.24 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f09ec521-7324-4117-868b-799709e3ef24/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.08.28%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 4: Nadia Younes, What’s Missing, 2023, oil and inkjet on paper, 35 x 34 inches (88.9 x 86.36 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/675137ff-26d5-4498-b10f-98b7c0113ed7/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+4.19.31%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 5: Nadia Younes, Emptiness as a Verb No. 3, 2025, oil on panel, 12 x 9 inches (30.48 x 22.86 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/684f1c7b-e85d-47eb-a8ad-2766b7387317/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.09.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 6: Nadia Younes, Nostalgia for the Nonexistent, 2024, oil on panel, 36 x 24 inches (91.44 x 69.96 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/0736d706-e8bb-446b-87ba-53a36f18370d/Nostalgia+for+the+Mising_Younes+Nadia_2024.jpg Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 7: Nadia Younes, Nostalgia for the Missing, 2024, oil on panel, 36 x 24 inches (91.44 x 60.94 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/878c4b0c-d820-4dc8-aec1-11752fd48360/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.33.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 8: Nadia Younes, Nowhere, 2024, oil on panel, 8 x 6 inches (15.24 x 20.32 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/5cab3e4f-4d35-4f67-817c-0b8f63ad044a/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.15.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 9: Jean Tinguely, Installation view of the exhibition Homage to New York: A self-constructing and self-destroying work of art conceived and built by Jean Tinguely, March 17, 1960. Photographic archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, New York (IN661.1). Video footage: courtesy © Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dgGu2w3Qvo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/176eab9e-a6f2-42a0-87b7-e338cead9e75/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.18.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 10: Nadia Younes, Ouroboros (Novembers), 2024, oil, charcoal and paper on panel, 72 x 48 inches (182.88 x 121.92 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b065a2e5-ab06-4a8d-9576-4c9fc822c83b/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.11.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 11: Nadia Younes, Another Fine Portal Mess, 2025, mixed media, 45 x 45 inches (114.3 x 114.3 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f0c09859-d5ef-4812-ad22-85204fe034b3/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.11.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 12: Nadia Younes, Another Fine Portal Mess (detail), 2025, mixed media, 45 x 45 inches (114.3 x 114.3 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f7ac583b-3e8d-49d4-ac90-b66fcdaab8b8/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.12.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 13: Nadia Younes, Compression Field, 2025, resin, FMC, wall chunks, rusty chain, 30 x 20 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes. For additional documentation please visit: https://nadia-younes.com/work/mfa-thesis-yale-school-of-art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/e12ea1ce-1569-460f-b22f-a5a0d7218c3a/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.19.41%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 14: Kazuo Shiraga in his studio, 1960. Photo: courtesy Amagasaki Cultural Center and The New York Times. Image source: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/arts/international/art-world-rediscovers-kazuo-shiraga.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/e6335e56-880d-4aeb-a027-dc4330344df5/Screenshot+2025-10-18+at+1.12.59%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Figure 15: Nadia Younes, Phantom Fragments, 2022, oil and charcoal on panel, 8 x 11 feet (243.84 x 335.28 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Nadia Younes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ffd6434c-9085-4a6a-a9e9-6343d84b6444/IMG_3972.jpg Artist Interviews - The In-Between Moments: In Conversation with Nadia Younes - Make it stand out Nadia Younes Nadia Younes is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, video, and writing. Born in Nazareth to a Palestinian refugee father and a Soviet immigrant mother, she moved between Israel, Mali, Mauritania, Jordan, and Russia. This transitory upbringing shaped her sensitivity to displacement, instability, and overlooked spatial systems, concerns that are central to her practice. Her work explores tensions between surface and structure, access and refusal, containment and collapse. Drawing from industrial materials and urban demolition sites, she merges classical painting methods with cast resin, paint skins, flexible metal conduit, and other construction remnants. She treats these materials as bearing the memory of bodies in flux, reflecting systems of labor, gender, and survival. Multilingual in English, Arabic, Hebrew, and Russian, Younes approaches materials as she does language: as codes that can be bent, fractured, and reassembled. Recent presentations include PowerLine at Perrotin, New York (2025), a public video screening with ZAZ10TS in Times Square (2024), and the solo exhibition Elusive Territories at The Study at Yale (2024). Select works include Interference Pattern, a mirrored environment featuring a suspended car and circulating liquids; Site of Failure, a kinetic installation composed of acrylic paint skins; Compression Field, a 450-pound resin sculpture embedded with demolition debris; and Second Lesson in Boundaries, a trompe-l’œil oil painting that reflects surveillance and fencing systems in Israel and the West Bank. She holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Her training includes scientific glassblowing, lithography, marble carving, and classical studies at the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg. Younes has served as a graduate assistant at the Yale School of Art, taught at Bezalel, and engaged in community-based initiatives. She received support from residencies such as the Vermont Studio Center and ISPMFA, and was the recipient of the Winsor & Newton Award for Excellence in Painting. She is currently based between New Haven and New York. Website: https://nadia-younes.com/ https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/nightvision-in-conversation-with-zt-nguyen monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6a3548ab-180f-40f6-9aa6-a10a3f9a85ad/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.04.27%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 1: Z.T. Nguyễn, A sort of delicious terror (detail), graphite, colored pencil, and acrylic on letter-sized sheets of paper, 83 x 73 inches (unframed) (210 x 185.42 cm [unframed]). Photo: courtesy the artist, Perrotin Gallery, and Guillaume Ziccarelli © Z.T. Nguyễn and Perrotin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/44dabd02-cd7b-47b7-909b-2da76ccd9aa3/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.06.23%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 2: Z.T. Nguyễn, Waiting, graphite and acrylic on letter-sized sheets of paper, 42.25 x 32.25 inches (107.32 x 81.92 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Z.T. Nguyễn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/7ecdc52e-67fc-4cfb-95d3-764f5f6997d6/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.08.27%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 3: Z.T. Nguyễn, Moth, graphite and wall paint on letter-sized sheets of paper, 16.25 x 8 inches (41.28 x 20.32 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Z.T. Nguyễn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/347887c9-ae14-44e3-8dd7-536997501a0c/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.09.31%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 4: Z.T. Nguyễn, Dandelion, graphite and wall paint on letter-sized sheets of paper, 68.75 x 26 inches (174.63 x 66.04 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Z.T. Nguyễn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/2ce37739-c51c-48ec-af94-e740de27e321/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.10.50%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 5: Z.T. Nguyễn, Mosquito Star, graphite and wall paint on letter-sized sheets of paper, 32 x 31.5 inches (81.8 x 80.01 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Z.T. Nguyễn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d0e2e454-2f4c-44a4-9cb6-1f1e01e22457/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.13.42%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 6: Z.T. Nguyễn, Starlit, graphite and acrylic on letter-sized sheets of paper, 40.5 x 32 inches (102.87 x 81.28 cm). Photo: courtesy the art and Pat Garcia © Z.T. Nguyễn and Pat Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/2aef7211-fdc0-4843-8a0b-3ca1027580d9/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.14.46%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 7: Z.T. Nguyễn, Cat and Mosquitoes, graphite and acrylic on letter-sized sheets of paper, 40.5 x 32 inches (102.87 x 81.28 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist and Pat Garcia © Z.T. Nguyễn and Pat Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/36a41f8a-bfb5-401c-af6c-f14952f3f4c8/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.15.46%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 8: Z.T. Nguyễn, Neck, graphite and acrylic on letter-sized sheets of paper, 26 x 130 inches (66.04 x 330.2 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist and Pat Garcia © Z.T. Nguyễn and Pat Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/3344e280-ce4e-4912-ba69-a9a961fc3adb/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.17.17%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 9: Z.T. Nguyễn, Insectoid, graphite and acrylic on letter-sized sheets of paper, 32 x 32 inches (81.28 x 81.28 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Z.T. Nguyễn and Pat Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b8274d5c-f4ee-493e-a2d5-8a9a14421576/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.18.11%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 10: Z.T. Nguyễn, Watching, hand-drawn digital image, found CRT television, acrylic-pigmented cement, dimensions variable. Photo: courtesy the artist and island © Z.T. Nguyễn and island https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/fbbe3e1d-4502-47ca-afe5-5f52331c1645/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.18.59%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 11: Z.T. Nguyễn, Facts Are Bigger in the Dark, squid ink, graphite, colored pencil, and acrylic on letter-sized sheet of paper; overturned found chair, 23.5 x 36 x 16 inches (59.69 x 91.44 x 40.64 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Z.T. Nguyễn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/59e95d8e-58d3-4a77-87bc-b99a40b187ee/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.20.07%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 12: Andy Warhol, Electric Chair, 1971, screenprint, sheet: 35 7/16 x 47 ⅞ inches (90 x 121.6 cm). Edition 192/250 | 50 APs. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Peter M. Brant © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./ Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (73.92.3) https://whitney.org/collection/works/7335 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/36d4994d-136e-49ba-8a7d-cf4b59e8633c/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.20.59%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 13: Z.T. Nguyễn, Home, graphite and acrylic on paper, 3.9 x 1.9 inches (9.90 x 4.82 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist and Pat Garcia © Z.T. Nguyễn and Pat Garcia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/bac55db6-f6fa-4948-bd79-1c80e19025b2/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.21.42%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 14: Z.T. Nguyễn, Almost, graphite, colored pencil, soft pastel, and acrylic on letter-sized sheets of paper, 172 x 32.5 inches (436.88 x 82.55 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Z.T. Nguyen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/27f0cbb8-c673-4ec9-895f-5ff8862cfad5/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.22.30%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 15: Z.T. Nguyễn, Almost (detail), graphite, colored pencil, soft pastel, and acrylic on letter-sized sheets of paper, 172 x 32.5 inches (436.88 x 82.55 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Z.T. Nguyen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/4c6ecbc5-0e51-482b-8be6-b923e8ed4a40/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+8.24.35%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Figure 16: Z.T. Nguyễn, A sort of delicious terror, graphite, colored pencil, and acrylic on letter-sized sheets of paper, 83 x 73 inches (unframed) (210 x 185.42 cm [unframed]). Photo: courtesy the artist, Perrotin Gallery, and Guillaume Ziccarelli © Z.T. Nguyễn and Perrotin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/3ee73b7a-8809-40e3-a40b-1537cf969f2c/Z.T.+Nguyen+Portrait%281%29.jpg Artist Interviews - Nightvision: In Conversation with Z.T. Nguyễn - Make it stand out Z.T. Nguyễn Z.T. Nguyễn (b. 1997, Silver Spring, MD) is an artist based between Maryland and New York. In 2025, he had his debut solo exhibition at island, New York. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Perrotin, New York; Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York; Asia Art Archive in America, Brooklyn; and Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hà Nội; among others. He has participated in residencies and fellowships at Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn; The Alternative Art School & MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, online; and Asia Art Archive in America. Nguyen received his BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2025. Website: https://ztnguyen.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/baked.ziti.nguyen/?hl=en https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/beauty-inside-the-chaos-in-conversation-with-jaouad-bentama monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/dd8dbbdf-42cf-434e-8382-f6d69cd922d5/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.18.38%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 1: Jaouad Bentama, Reflexion: Composition LVXVII, mixed media, 48 x 36 inches (121.92 x 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/9b902a97-a92e-49d3-8ec4-2e076cd84533/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.16.44%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 2: Jaouad Bentama, Composition XXXVI, 2024, mixed media acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches (121.92 x 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/32df17dd-b81e-4dcf-8c7b-8e7330547eb5/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.16.01%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 3: Jaouad Bentama, Composition XLV, 2024, mixed media acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/7a1627d3-4776-4a68-9a3b-5b0c63e3b733/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.15.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 4: Jaouad Bentama, Composition I, mixed media acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6c13efe9-22df-45f3-8a42-245d924e0f5d/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.14.03%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 5: Jaouad Bentama’s studio. Photo: Lara Xenia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/85ab99c8-ea36-4182-954d-f15182831da5/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.13.21%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 6: Jaouad Bentama, Composition XLII, mixed media, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c270cd16-dd7a-4b6e-b4bc-49c378ecdc0a/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.12.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 7: Nicolas de Staël, Composition sur Fond Rouge, 1951, oil on canvas, 31.88 x 21.25 inches (81 x 54 cm). Photo: courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/70e4c237-aa2c-494a-9aeb-9ddcf85ecc45/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.11.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 8: Jaouad Bentama, Composition, mixed media acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches (182.88 x 152.4 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/36ac690c-01d5-48e0-bef7-4ed352bed7d0/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.10.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 9: Studio view of posters. Photo: Lara Xenia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d06dcdeb-2941-46ea-a732-e1318092cb8d/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.09.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 9: Jaouad Bentama, Composition XLI, 2024, mixed media acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches (121.92 x 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/bc2ec2b0-f4ae-486c-8a62-3f6f02fc0bd6/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.07.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 10: Jaouad Bentama, Blue: Composition LV, 2025, mixed media acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches (121.92 x 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/04784814-5f7c-4020-b881-d1da3919ef04/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.07.58%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Figure 11: Installation view of Jaouad Bentama, Composition LV, LVI, and LIV, 2024, mixed media acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches (121.92 x 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/a94b4428-ea85-4077-8a81-d61f03a13fef/Screenshot+2025-09-16+at+9.17.44%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Beauty Inside the Chaos: In Conversation with Jaouad Bentama - Make it stand out Jaouad Bentama Photo: Emmanuel Giraud Jaouad Bentama (b. Paris, France) moved to New York in 2012, immersing himself in the city’s artist collectives before joining Mana Contemporary in 2017. His work explores memory, identity, and cultural displacement through layered surfaces that reflect both personal and collective histories. In December 2021, a severe accident followed by a coma in Tulum, Mexico profoundly transformed his practice. From this rupture emerged the central motif of his work: the tear. Bentama, the tear is not merely a scar but a threshold, a space where trauma and rebirth coexist, a mark of survival and shared vulnerability. In his ongoing series Les Déchirures, he layers acrylic, ink, torn paper, and raw canvas to create textured reliefs landscapes of memory and repair where absence becomes presence and damage turns into beauty. Through his art, Bentama creates a powerful language of endurance and poetic expression, transforming fragility into strength. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaouad.bentama/?hl=en https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/the-cherries-in-conversation-with-lassana-sarre monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/e1774b85-cc3e-4c3e-9fa5-e3dcf138c84d/Screenshot+2025-08-17+at+8.31.01%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 1: Lassana Sarre, Combattre, 2022, acrylique sur toile, 62.99 × 51.18 pouces (160 × 130 cm). Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/302b3f33-835e-4e52-be3d-173a425f42f8/Screenshot+2025-08-17+at+8.27.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 2: Lassana Sarre, L'homme qui fume, 2025, acrylique sur toile, 62.99 × 51.18 pouces (160 × 130 cm). Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/fd529c76-3559-4b89-9878-2f2dc9ad8955/Screenshot+2025-08-17+at+8.25.49%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 3: Lassana Sarre, Frantz Fanon, La gravure au temps, 2025, acrylique et fusain sur toile, 62.99 × 51.18 pouces (160 × 130 cm). Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ee8dfcb6-9658-45a3-9df5-8ce0556bca1f/Screenshot+2025-08-19+at+6.09.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 4.1: Marie Victoire Lemoine, Portrait d'un jeune homme au gilet brodé (présumé de Jean Amilcar), vers 1785–1790, huile sur toile, 25.5 × 21.4 pouces (64.77 × 54.36 cm), Acheté avec des fonds du Cummer Council (AP.1994.3.1), Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Floride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/df8168b2-d09e-45db-bc35-b5c59ec5a2a4/Screenshot+2025-08-17+at+8.28.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 4.2: Lassana Sarre, Jean Amilcar, 2025, fusain sur papier, 39.37 × 27.56 pouces (100 × 70 cm). Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/2628e0a2-dd65-4e39-9928-97708fbab96e/Screenshot+2025-08-17+at+8.24.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 5: Lassana Sarre, Ne jamais séparer les cerises, 2025, acrylique sur toile, 74.80 × 51.18 pouces (190 × 130 cm). Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c0daf225-71a6-4529-af36-5309fb0b1e00/Boy_with_Cherries_Edouard_Manet.jpg Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 6: Édouard Manet, L’enfant des cerises, vers 1858, huile sur toile, 25.78 × 21.42 pouces (65.5 × 54.40 cm), Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (395). Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation du Musée Calouste Gulbenkian © Édouard Manet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c6349de5-16d0-4be7-a1a6-9f1ee73d1f62/Screenshot+2025-08-17+at+8.27.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 7: Lassana Sarre, Sans titre, 2023, acrylique sur toile, 62.99 × 51.18 pouces (160 × 130 cm). Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/30c3db25-a185-490f-84e3-4185b76a3350/Screenshot+2025-08-17+at+8.19.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 8: Lassana Sarre, L'homme à la larme, 2025, acrylique sur toile, 74.80 × 62.99 pouces (190 × 160 cm). Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/920294c8-114b-4600-8b74-f769031c1e80/Screenshot+2025-08-17+at+8.19.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 9: Vues de l’exposition « Forever Young » du 14 juin 2025 au 4 janvier, 2026, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France. Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste et Aurélien Mole © Adagp, Paris 2025, Aurélien Mole https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d5cfbdbf-866c-4f5d-a14a-598ca8d0c2f0/Screenshot+2025-08-17+at+8.26.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 12: Lassana Sarre, Songe d'être toujours, 2025, acrylique sur toile, 47.24 × 31.5 pouces (120 × 80 cm). Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/fea88c7e-32c7-4382-9f28-f955da278c47/Screenshot+2025-08-17+at+8.30.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 13: Lassana Sarre, Le reflet dans l'air, 2024, EX-AEQUO, Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville de Paris. Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b65980a1-20d9-446c-9e14-909f44d60932/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+8.46.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Photo: avec l'aimable autorisation de Maurine Pret © Maurine Pret et Conversarting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/e8a0fe9c-bd0c-4618-a5e3-4c3c14c4b53c/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+10.54.01%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 1: Lassana Sarre, Battling, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 62.99 × 51.18 inches (160 × 130 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/200d5e3c-11e3-4e74-b2e7-98f31607cd62/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+10.56.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 2: Lassana Sarre, The Smoking Man, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 62.99 × 51.18 inches (160 × 130 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/9db44d8e-26bf-4190-be34-33f76f608dfc/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+10.59.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 3: Lassana Sarre, Frantz Fanon, Engraving in Time, 2025, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 62.99 × 51.18 inches (160 × 130 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/11899b9f-5856-4f53-9776-84e5b94b808a/Screenshot+2025-08-19+at+6.09.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 4.1: Marie Victoire Lemoine, Portrait of a Young Man in an Embroidered Vest (presumed to be Jean Amilcar), c. 1785–1790, oil on canvas, 25.5 × 21.4 inches (64.77 × 54.36 cm), Purchased with funds from the Cummer Council (AP.1994.3.1), Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/56495dd3-38f3-42bb-a73b-55317a9b827d/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+11.09.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 4.2: Lassana Sarre, Jean Amilcar, 2025, charcoal on paper, 39.37 × 27.56 inches (100 × 70 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/751cd1ff-216b-4ae1-ac8d-34cc67eb1df8/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+11.14.24%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 5: Lassana Sarre, Never Separate the Cherries, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 74.80 × 51.18 inches (190 × 130 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b28e7eb2-4ed7-4b17-87c2-b245f8a55847/Boy_with_Cherries_Edouard_Manet.jpg Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 6: Édouard Manet, Boy with Cherries, c. 1858, oil on canvas, 25.78 × 21.42 inches (65.5 × 54.40 cm), Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (395). Photo: courtesy the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum © Édouard Manet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ff5295fa-cfe4-4d59-a04a-3c34621b1df8/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+11.22.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 7: Lassana Sarre, Untitled, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 62.99 × 51.18 inches (160 × 130 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/1ff1397f-8c6c-4b6c-8648-bc2acaffd6a4/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+11.27.44%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 8: Lassana Sarre, Man with a Tear, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 74.80 × 62.99 inches (190 × 160 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/5f3ab5bf-aac1-4bcd-8a53-135f588ad6e7/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+11.30.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 9: Views of the exhibition “Forever Young” from June 14, 2025 to January 4, 2026, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France. Photo: courtesy the artist and Aurélien Mole © Adagp, Paris 2025, Aurélien Mole https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/60ab2306-a7b7-4e9f-a55f-e8b634da97aa/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+11.34.45%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 12: Lassana Sarre, Songe d'êtres Toujours, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 47.24 × 31.5 inches (120 × 80 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/47768627-af71-4e3b-af20-6e21295c3930/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+11.37.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Figure 13: Lassana Sarre, Reflection in the Air, 2024, EX-AEQUO, Contemporary Art Fund of the City of Paris. Photo: courtesy the artist © Lassana Sarre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/5f8c0dab-3395-49ec-bf6e-aef819c612a3/Screenshot+2025-08-18+at+11.41.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Ne jamais séparer les cerises : en conversation avec Lassana Sarre - Make it stand out Photo: courtesy Maurine Pret © Maurine Pret and Conversarting https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/amy-chasse monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/fc995f00-ef39-42e0-82ac-140a8d4c119e/Supper_ArchivalPigmentPrint_17x22+in._2024.jpg Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Figure 1: Amy Chasse, Winner winner chicken dinner, 2024, archival pigment print, 22 x 17 inches (55.88 × 43.18 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Amy Chasse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/cd0dd43b-25bb-4f4d-a8d5-ad611670460c/EatingTogether_8.5x11+in._DigitalPhotograph_2024.jpg Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Figure 2: Amy Chasse, Eating Together, 2o24, archival pigment print, 11 × 8.5 inches (27.94 × 21.59 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Amy Chasse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/15525037-3768-4a06-a5ca-c7eefbee4ef7/Screenshot+2025-08-14+at+5.10.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Figure 3: Amy Chasse, Living Room, 2024, archival pigment print, 11 x 8.5 inches (27.94 x 21.59 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Amy Chasse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/91217aa3-5479-4fdb-aec3-7bb3ac805328/Screenshot+2025-08-14+at+5.28.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Figure 4: Jeff Wall, Pair of Interiors, 2018, two inkjet prints (diptych), each 81.75 × 59.88 inches (207.5 × 152 cm), edition of 3 + 1 AP. Photo: courtesy Gagosian © Jeff Wall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6e76b796-c052-44a8-a69b-b9f8007f50d5/Resting_8.5x11in._DigitalPhotograph_2024.jpg Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Figure 5: Amy Chasse, Resting, 2024, archival pigment print, 11 x 8.5 inches (27.94 x 21.59 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Amy Chasse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ca47844a-de3c-42f2-99c4-fd654358a7ec/Amy+Chasse_Moonlight_2025.jpg Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Figure 6: Amy Chasse, Night Swim, 2025, pencil and oil on canvas, 42 x 30 inches (106.68 x 76.2 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Amy Chasse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ca3eb2b7-c62e-4a0c-b110-a2d78bb71bb3/InTransit_Oil%2CAcrylic%2COilPastel%2CPlaster%2CStickers%2CSilicone%2CVinylandWoodOnSewnCavnas_58x75in._2025.jpg Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Figure 7.1: Amy Chasse, In Transit, 2025, oil, acrylic, oil pastel, plaster, stickers, silicone, vinyl and wood on canvas, 75 x 58 inches (190.5 x 147.32 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Amy Chasse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c72d55a3-9c82-4ae9-ac1e-1cce28cccebf/Screenshot+2025-08-14+at+5.13.41%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Figure 7.2: Amy Chasse, In Transit (detail), 2025, oil, acrylic, oil pastel, plaster, stickers, silicone, vinyl and wood on canvas, 75 x 58 inches (190.5 x 147.32 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Amy Chasse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/a0339467-9d91-4f34-b2dd-cb9e721a75b8/Riders_75x85in._Acrylic%2CPlasterandPaperMacheonCanvas_2024.jpg Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Figure 8: Amy Chasse, Riders, 2024, acrylic, plaster and paper mache on canvas, 85 x 75 inches (215.9 x 190.5 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Amy Chasse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/dedaf09d-8013-4f84-b814-3c52dd87125d/Screenshot+2025-08-14+at+5.16.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Figure 9: Kati Horna. Untitled (Remedios Varo wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington), 1962, gelatin silver print, 8.5 × 7.75 inches (21.6 × 19.7 cm). Photo: courtesy the Kati Horna Estate © 2025 Kati Horna Estate, Carol and David Appel Family Fund, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY (966.2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d85a626d-32e3-4c6b-bbe1-6269515faaa4/IMG_7009.jpg Artist Interviews - All Dolled Up: In Conversation with Amy Chasse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/joy-li monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/02c7676b-fac3-4582-898a-6b5e2f8eaec2/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+10.30.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 1.1: Joy Li, Transparent Trap, 2025, glass, butterfly specimen, screen,printed circuit board, rubber, 7.1 × 12.6 × 6.7 inches (18 × 32 × 17 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist, Podium Gallery, and Lok Hang Wu © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d89b2f11-61dd-4f36-bb44-8d3816e8f878/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+10.28.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 2.1: Joy Li, Specimen Collection, 2025, 29.5 × 19.7 × 23.6 inches (75 × 50 × 60 cm), glass, banknote, metal, LED, ceramic, copper wire, and rubber. Photo: courtesy the artist, Podium Gallery, and Lok Hang Wu © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/1b2e3cc2-260b-4669-bf75-9fbaab906f34/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+10.29.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 2.2: Joy Li, Specimen Collection (detail), 2025, 29.5 × 19.7 × 23.6 inches (75 × 50 × 60 cm), glass, banknote, metal, LED, ceramic, copper wire, and rubber. Photo: courtesy the artist, Podium Gallery, and Lok Hang Wu © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b9546503-7f23-4130-a207-310967a57a9f/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+10.31.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 1.2: Joy Li, Transparent Trap (detail), 2025, glass, butterfly specimen, screen,printed circuit board, rubber, 7.1 × 12.6 × 6.7 inches (18 × 32 × 17 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist, Podium Gallery, and Lok Hang Wu © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/51bafe12-7406-42ff-be39-49c4bf150070/Screenshot+2025-07-29+at+12.32.34%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 3.1: Joy Li, Ouroboros, 2023, 2.17 × 2.17 inches (5.5 × 5.5 cm), cookie. Photo: courtesy the artist © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/fada3f78-ee28-4334-9a1a-a099f08c2822/Screenshot+2025-07-29+at+1.03.20%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 3.2: Joy Li, Ouroboros, 2023, 2.17 × 2.17 inches (5.5 × 5.5 cm), cookie. Photo: courtesy the artist © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/2a8dadbb-69fa-4ea9-aae6-a7b661bb2169/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+9.57.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 4: China Travel Service (Holdings), Hong Kong Limited and OCT Group, New York Cityscape at The Window of the World, Shenzhen, China, 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b60581fe-c8ef-4dd6-bae2-d7e395e1c0da/Screenshot+2025-07-29+at+1.07.28%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 6.1: Joy Li, Intermission, 2024, performance. Photo: courtesy the artist and Maximiliano Cervantes © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6f7f582c-ff7e-4f8d-8c51-15d5de8b3cf4/Screenshot+2025-07-29+at+1.08.41%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 6.2: Joy Li, Intermission, 2024, performance. Photo: courtesy the artist and Maximiliano Cervantes © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f2bd049f-8ade-4def-bda9-ca1764aae63b/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+10.08.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 7: “Time is Money, Efficiency is Life”, Shenzhen, China. Photo: Wikipedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d18a5395-9d34-47b4-b809-2862c7ccb009/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+10.16.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 8.1: Joy Li, Butterfly Killer No. 01, 2024, 39.37 × 39.37 × 43.31 inches (100 × 100 × 110 cm), stainless steel, butterfly specimens, resin, ceramic tiles, epoxy, and acrylic. Photo: courtesy the artist © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b069fa14-80f8-4fe7-9c63-2f42b95ec6e9/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+11.47.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 8.2: Joy Li, Butterfly Killer No. 01 (detail), 2024, 39.37 × 39.37 × 43.31 inches (100 × 100 × 110 cm), stainless steel, butterfly specimens, resin, ceramic tiles, epoxy, and acrylic. Photo: courtesy the artist © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/61f52434-ac20-48c4-94ea-380c58c1c01d/Screenshot+2025-07-29+at+1.09.34%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 9.1: Joy Li, Wings of Icarus, 2024, iron, wax, paint, nylon rope, cotton thread, and human body. Photo: courtesy the artist © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/11864470-d0e2-4ade-b846-871c39033f85/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+10.18.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 9.2: Joy Li, Wings of Icarus, 2024, iron, wax, paint, nylon rope, cotton thread, and human body. Photo: courtesy the artist © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/2a90bc4b-54f0-4bc2-ac32-0dd5ed6e2b91/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+11.51.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 9.3: Joy Li, Wings of Icarus, 2024, iron, wax, paint, nylon rope, cotton thread, and human body. Photo: courtesy the artist © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/81f6b5eb-9ef4-4936-9535-0e0db8e81b53/Screenshot+2025-07-29+at+1.11.04%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 10: Urs Fischer, Untitled (after The Abduction of the Sabine Women by Giambologna), 2011–2020. Photo: courtesy the artist, the Pinault Collection, and Stefan Altenburger © Urs Fischer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/e114c354-7a99-4e8a-9ca9-c1b4b891c04b/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+11.56.23%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 11.1: Joy Li, This Performance is a Form of Refusal, 2021, metal, fabric, faux fur, hair, cable tie, feather, and human body. Photo: courtesy the artist © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6a315c8e-0459-4804-9aba-fe5b98b38e5c/Screenshot+2025-07-29+at+1.05.31%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 11.2: Joy Li, This Performance is a Form of Refusal, 2021, metal, fabric, faux fur, hair, cable tie, feather, and human body. Photo: courtesy the artist © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/18134bbf-eec7-4e0f-9364-873c6bfc7d0f/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+10.12.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 12.1: Joy Li, Rattlesnake, 2024, 3D printed resin, wood, sponge, springs, bells, metal, fabric, crystal chandelier, pendants, hair, essential oils, fishing line, and human body. Photo: courtesy the artist and Liang Zilong © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/8b27fd3c-0dc1-419f-83e2-214582f8075b/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+11.53.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 12.2: Joy Li, Rattlesnake, 2024, 3D printed resin, wood, sponge, springs, bells, metal, fabric, crystal chandelier, pendants, hair, essential oils, fishing line, and human body. Photo: courtesy the artist and Liang Zilong © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/bf31ed38-dcbc-405d-9c52-293c93ed3b08/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+11.53.26%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Figure 12.3: Joy Li, Rattlesnake, 2024, 3D printed resin, wood, sponge, springs, bells, metal, fabric, crystal chandelier, pendants, hair, essential oils, fishing line, and human body. Photo: courtesy the artist and Liang Zilong © Joy Li https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f1004b13-22b2-4245-a755-47fa1ebea37b/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+10.35.50%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - To Burn, To Float, To Refuse: In Conversation with Joy Li - Make it stand out Joy Li Joy Li (b. 1999, Gansu, China) obtained her BFA degree in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a Theater minor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2021. She is currently studying in the MFA Sculpture program at the Yale School of Art, and is expected to graduate in 2026. Her works include sculpture, installation, performance, and video, exploring the tension of interactions between objects, emotions, and relationships. In her works, she reinterprets objects and bodies to magnify the allure and danger inherent in everyday items, allowing the audience to re-experience and interact with familiar things in unfamiliar ways. She is the recipient of the 2025 Schickle-Collingwood Prize from the Yale School of Art and the 2024–2025 Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” Award. In 2024, she also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Her recent solo exhibitions and projects include: “Gas Station X”, 2024, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai; “Icarus’ Wings”, 2024, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou; “Green Water”, 2023, LINSEED, Shanghai; “Golden Lines and White Lightings”, 2023, Aranya, Chengde; “Salomé”, 2022, 33ml OFFSPACE, Shanghai. Her selected group exhibitions include: “Ballet with the Devil”, PODIUM, Hong Kong; “Porsche ‘Young Chinese Artist of the Year’ Nominees’ Exhibition”, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai; “Four Winds: A Different Perspective on Southern Art”, 2024, Guangdong Contemporary Art Center, Guangzhou; “Open the Door”, 2024, Gallery func, Shanghai; “At the Beginning, You Find Nothing There”, 2024, Petitree, Shenzhen; “Embodied Rituals”, 2024, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou; “After Human: Marks of the Beasts”, 2024, Tomorrow Maybe, Hong Kong;“moments that home came into being”, 2023, Third Street Gallery, Shanghai; “Tie Up”, 2023, Mugyewon, LINSEED, Seoul; “LAB 2: Co-Working Space”, 2022, LIU HAISU Art Museum, Shanghai; and “Art Nova 100”, 2021, Guardian Art Center, Beijing. Website: https://joyli.art/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joy_li__/?hl=en https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/sok-song monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/2e32afc8-9df1-4337-a6d1-b7ab06d10972/Screenshot+2025-06-10+at+4.05.22%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 1: Sok Song, Korean or American Army?—Uniform Duality, 2024, graphite transfer collograph and pressure print monotype on BFK Rives, 30 × 22 (76.3 × 55.88 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c66f3d86-c985-4502-89b1-e3db8a2d0685/Screenshot+2025-07-08+at+2.02.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 2: Sok Song, Dollar Bill Teddy Bear, 2010. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/12ecee8f-5355-4f62-8faf-a08d26d8fd73/Screenshot+2025-06-10+at+4.07.39%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 3: Installation view of the Origami Holiday Tree, Fantastic Creatures: Mythic and Real, 2007, The American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/1fe571f0-0c49-4a99-bbde-ddbde0201c0c/Screenshot+2025-07-02+at+11.12.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 4: Sok Song, Dollar Bill Elephant, 2010. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/8ea5ca6d-56af-4a4e-8d38-da3d53a5ab26/Screenshot+2025-07-07+at+9.30.57%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 5: Do-Sok-a-Hedron. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/7acf3c72-41db-4b99-85fe-40370378fd42/Screenshot+2025-07-02+at+11.27.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 6: Sok Song, Rupture under Pressure, 2025, balloons and charbonnel ink monotype on BFK Rives, 30 × 22 (76.3 × 55.88 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f8f44be9-ec20-4235-bf0f-4efe3a4f8749/Screenshot+2025-07-02+at+11.17.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 7.1: America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 12, 2009, origami vêtements. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/1e86ce83-019c-442c-a3d5-a894c7865266/Screenshot+2025-07-02+at+11.18.37%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 7.2: Sok Song, Origami Phone Bill Dress, Fashion Week 2015, origami vêtements. Modeled by Tara Sukoff for Imitation of Christ. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/889ac788-a750-4919-a233-87ed383ba1e8/Screenshot+2025-07-06+at+11.47.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 8: Simon Hantaï, Étude, 1969, oil on canvas, 108.25 × 93.69 inches (275 × 238 cm). Gift of the Collectors Committee, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Photo: courtesy The Estate of Simon Hantaï © The Estate of Simon Hantaï https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/fdb54ec1-d5d1-416b-b966-ce841404a937/Screenshot+2025-07-07+at+10.04.47%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 9.1: Francis Bacon, Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963, oil on canvas, 65 × 56 inches (165 × 142.5 cm). Photo: courtesy The Estate of Francis Bacon © The Estate of Francis Bacon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6f22c459-e8d4-4ad9-87e0-11f8a540e4f3/Screenshot+2025-07-02+at+11.34.00%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 9.2: Francis Bacon studio material, John Deakin, Henrietta Moraes, late 1950s, Collection Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Photo: courtesy John Deakin Archive © John Deakin Archive and The Estate of Francis Bacon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b7a6c030-a652-4eec-85d4-7f0ded1f72b3/Screenshot+2025-07-02+at+11.37.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 10: Sok Song, Installation view of Forgotten Heroes, 2025, hangers, dry cleaning plastics, vêtements, and mannequins, dimensions variable. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b1e71cef-39a3-45af-9e08-61c3733c13dc/Screenshot+2025-07-07+at+9.29.35%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 11: Sok Song, U.S. Army undressed, 2025, from the A.P.T. (Air, Pressed, Transferred) series. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f7870338-e8f6-4c7d-b910-0e01200c3406/Screenshot+2025-07-02+at+11.42.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 12: Sok Song, Folded Identity Portrait, 2025, Ben Day dots on paper, 30 × 22 inches (76.2 × 55.88 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c477d6ff-0986-4490-8a89-3df066f72df1/Screenshot+2025-07-02+at+11.46.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 13: Installation view of Rupture and Reverie: Air Pressure Manifolds, 2025, Yale MFA Pit Crit. Photo: courtesy Chen Xiangyun and the artist © Chen Xiangyun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/32104f7a-0967-4418-9d99-4046c5a520fa/Screenshot+2025-07-02+at+11.48.28%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 14: Do Ho Suh, Installation view, Home Within Home, 2013, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 2013–2014. Photo: courtesy Lehmann Maupin © Do Ho Suh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/a3f46836-143e-42a5-b72e-1e9346d08bc6/Screenshot+2025-07-02+at+11.50.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Figure 15: Sok Song, Installation view of Forgotten Heroes, 2025, hangers, vêtements, and dry cleaning plastic, carbon transfer paper, dimensions variable. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sok Song https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/e200e370-d995-48cb-beca-256f0a2aea80/Screenshot+2025-07-07+at+9.19.32%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Folding Reveries: In Conversation with Sok Song - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/the-shimmering-in-between-a-conversation-with-kimberly-heard monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/51624021-97ee-4b31-a6a2-c79201a287fc/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.12.27%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Figure 1: Kimberly Heard, Untitled, 2025, oil on canvas, 64 × 42 inches (162.56 × 106.68 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist and Chen Xiangyun © Kimberly R. Heard and Chen Xiangyun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6d38c792-01eb-4a4e-9a13-6af7b3839323/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.14.59%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Figure 2: Kimberly Heard, Of Days, 2019, graphite on unstretched canvas, 237 × 88 inches (601.98 × 223.52 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kimberly R. Heard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/811979f9-6de3-4609-b144-c03833b83eac/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.18.52%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Figure 3: Kimberly Heard, As Symbol & Concept, #12, 2023, from the As Symbol & Concept series, charcoal, oil medium, and graphite, 40 × 30 inches (101. 6 × 76.2 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kimberly R. Heard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ff712215-3a99-4939-b0cf-c711ce5b4893/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.21.06%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Figure 4: Kimberly Heard, As Symbol & Concept, #7, 2023, from the As Symbol & Concept series, charcoal, oil medium, and graphite, 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kimberly R. Heard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/430c514f-2ee4-45e2-b3da-6a89a31c2fdf/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.23.46%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Figure 5: Kimberly Heard, Untitled 1, 2025, oil on canvas, 58 × 80 inches (147.32 × 203.2 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist and Chen Xiangyun © Kimberly R. Heard and Chen Xiangyun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/38794ccd-9ed3-4a3d-9e48-1b5e7ffb4085/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.25.29%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Figure 6: Kimberly Heard, As Symbol & Concept, #6, 2023, from the As Symbol & Concept series, charcoal, oil medium, and graphite, 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kimberly R. Heard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/fda0ecf9-0cf2-4f2c-adeb-4c7774e43691/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.29.52%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Figure 7: Kimberly Heard, As Symbol & Concept, #4, from the As Symbol & Concept series, charcoal pastel, oil, graphite, and Conté crayons, 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kimberly R. Heard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/35cec32d-939b-444a-b7dd-b2c4204d3c54/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.31.43%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Figure 8: Kimberly Heard, Dad, 2023, from the As Symbol & Concept series, charcoal pastel, oil, graphite, and Conté crayons, 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kimberly R. Heard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/52dd1bed-e6fd-4399-9bbf-76b9e1663d2c/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.40.46%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Figure 9: Kimberly Heard, A Speculative Encounter, 2024, from the As Symbol & Concept series, charcoal pastel, oil, graphite, and Conté crayons, 42 × 36 inches (106.68 × 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Kimberly R. Heard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ab7c4207-8b6a-4dd4-bd3c-b509b294d754/Screenshot+2025-06-25+at+9.34.30%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Figure 10: Fred Eversley, Parabolic Light, 2023, cast polyurethane, 109.88 × 28 × 14 inches (279.09 × 71.12 × 35.56 cm). Photo: courtesy Fred Eversley, David Kordansky Gallery, and Public Art Fund, New York. Presented by Public Art Fund at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York City, September 7, 2023–August 25, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c9a81e11-3576-42c2-adf9-5aa60f03595d/IMG_6994.jpg Artist Interviews - The Shimmering In-Between: A Conversation with Kimberly R. Heard - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/intrinsic-paradox-in-conversation-with-sol-summers monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/e284ce86-aafb-456e-815d-c55b5cc4dfe0/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+6.19.21%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 1: Sol Summers, Daybreak, 2024, oil on canvas, 36 × 60 inches (91 × 152 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Sol Summers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/a15dcc29-aa18-43bc-8c5d-5721d6f6b8cf/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+7.02.43%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 2: Sol Summers, Untitled (Huntington Gardens Cactus), 2024, oil on canvas, 221 × 160 inches (152 × 122 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Sol Summers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/309e1ed8-d0fa-402e-ad71-5570aa2521bd/189A9000-2.jpg Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 3: Sol Summers, Cacti, 2024, oil on canvas, 60 × 48 inches (152 × 122 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Sol Summers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/87bf6dea-d9f7-4573-a575-a20a0d5c11fa/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+7.07.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/7ef18e43-cbc5-4b0c-aa06-8dfe599f1c43/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+7.08.06%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 4: Sol Summers, Various stills from “Ribbit” TikTok process video, 2023. Assessed June 18, 2025. https://www.tiktok.com/@solsummers/video/7174704914822614315 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b419c407-c707-4a67-b5f9-1ad5959396a9/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+8.17.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 5: Sol Summers, Awakening, 2024, oil on canvas, 60 × 48 inches (152 × 122 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Sol Summers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/4aac8208-3fee-4deb-a040-0ccc9ead59d4/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+9.58.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 6: Agnes Pelton, Departure, 1952, oil on canvas, 24 × 18 inches (60.96 × 45.72 cm). Collection of Mike Stoller and Corky Hale Stoller. Photo: courtesy Paul Salveson © Paul Salveson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/7eaf0925-a0df-4606-9966-eb94e4ccb520/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+10.02.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 7: Works in progress, 2025, oil on canvas, varying dimensions. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sol Summers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/49bcaafd-d49f-42aa-8922-6ec79657b962/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+8.54.17%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 8: Arthur Wesley Dow, The Glory of Shiva, Shiva Temple, Grand Canyon, 1912, oil on canvas, 24 × 18 inches (60.96 × 45.72 cm). Photo: courtesy Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/5aa32111-8627-422e-94c3-7148cd64d01d/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+8.56.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 9: Pavel Tchelitchew, Phenomenon, 1930, oil on canvas, 17.25 × 11.5 inches (44 × 29 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Pavel Tchelitchew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/9f574597-7e24-4aa3-bffa-9bc2e10293a1/189A9427.jpg Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 10: Sol Summers, Illumination, 2025, oil on canvas, 86 × 63 inches (218 × 160 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Sol Summers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/53ee98f4-fbfd-44ee-b435-31d9812c42eb/expanded.jpg Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 11: Summers painting en plein air, 2025. Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/61473d38-0061-4ef2-b03d-ee9322c280ee/189A0816.jpg Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 12: Studio view of the Cacti series, 2025. Photo: courtesy the artist © Sol Summers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/bf2cc352-9510-4a0c-b1dd-b15a3152f285/Nevada+Joshua+tree.jpg Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 13: Aide-mémoire from Joshua Tree, 2024. Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b20be637-f219-41b9-9e18-704f527e4c07/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+9.17.25%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 14: Sol Summers, Untitled, 2025, oil on canvas, 36 × 24 inches (91 × 61 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Sol Summers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/99ab513f-c3db-4370-badd-f49d9c0808f1/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+9.18.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Figure 15: Sol Summers, Portrait of Matisse, 2018, oil on canvas, 91 × 63 inches (231 × 160 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Sol Summers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/a111d675-a911-43c7-a4fa-6d1d4a663bba/Screenshot+2025-06-19+at+9.21.54%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Intrinsic Paradox: In Conversation with Sol Summers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/wenqingzhai monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/63943214-ca72-4463-a5ce-8532529d733d/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+12.02.41%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 1: Wenqing Zhai, Who’s counting, 2025, acrylic on cutting board, 12 × 8 inches (30.48 × 20.32 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Wenqing Zhai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6b9c05ec-09aa-410a-9c2b-74d8d83fb47a/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+12.03.58%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 2: Wenqing Zhai, Who’s counting (sketch), charcoal on paper, 8 × 8 inches (20.32 × 20.32 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Wenqing Zhai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ba784a97-55f0-4524-a239-6d9698914aab/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+1.01.50%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 3: Red Winfun Mini Book, 4.65 × 3.41 × 0.78 inches (11.81 cm × 8.66 cm × 1.97 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/dc4ed038-2e28-47cb-a4b7-d352eefa854f/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+1.27.31%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 4: Wenqing Zhai, Find the letter “O”, 2025, acrylic on plywood and foam, 60 × 48 × 2 inches (152.4 × 121.92 × 5.08 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Wenqing Zhai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/24ad72a2-1ec6-4503-b4fa-5de682534ad8/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+1.41.08%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 5: Still from Gogo’s Adventures with English, episode 18, 2:01. Accessed May 28, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgYmR_Dwz1Y&list=PL_5SUku5vOjgYQj-UkrjrnE79koNSihZf&index=17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6fc95ed0-0c14-4ba5-b218-a6d3029f93ab/Screenshot+2025-06-17+at+12.40.02%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 6: Wenqing Zhai, We Built the Rules, Not the Room, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 75 × 60 inches (190.5 × 152.4 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Wenqing Zhai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f1bdf10c-638a-44aa-a48f-13e0b4b398f9/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+2.46.51%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 7: Wenqing Zhai, We Built the Rules, Not the Room (detail), 2024, acrylic on canvas, 75 × 60 inches (190.5 × 152.4 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Wenqing Zhai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6ab1a943-10b8-4060-9a1a-ee5f2be47dcf/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+2.45.36%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 8: Max Ernst, Célèbes, 1921, oil paint on canvas, 49.37 x 42.48 inches (125.39 × 107.89 cm); frame: 55 × 47.64 × 4.02 inches (139.7 × 121.01 × 10.21 cm). Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom. Purchased 1975 (T01988). Photo: courtesy Tate Modern © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/64817e2c-d361-4bbc-90cd-26a8b88e0f4b/IMG_0695-3.jpg Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 9: Wenqing Zhai, Will the poking stop?, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 3D printed PLA, and jute rope, 80 × 60 inches (203.2 × 152.4 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Wenqing Zhai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b65245f2-97da-413d-9c89-e98e26646cfb/Screenshot+2025-06-17+at+12.41.46%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 10: Wenqing Zhai, Myth of Loss, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 40 × 40 inches (101.6 × 101.6 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Wenqing Zhai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c8a6b9d9-0093-4066-8d84-8d839764ef04/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+2.56.14%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 11: Film still of Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles, Cabaret, 1972. Photo: Bob Fosse © Turner Classic Movie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/097d4368-0802-4b19-83f1-cbefc765d814/Screenshot+2025-06-17+at+12.44.53%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Figure 12: Wenqing Zhai, It’s Just Heavy Traffic, 2023, acrylic on linen, 49.21 × 39.37 (125 × 120 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Wenqing Zhai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/561076a5-64d9-4ee7-bddd-d942e32cac5c/IMG_2331.JPG Artist Interviews - Engineering Play: In Conversation with Wenqing Zhai - Make it stand out Wenqing Zhai Wenqing Zhai (b. 1998, Dalian, China) interrogates modes of play and childhood in her practice. Zhai engages with toys, puppets, stories and myths as social artifacts that hum beneath the surface of who we are. She is interested in the tension between illusion and truth, in what looks harmless and what hides underneath. Throughout her oeuvre, she sifts through these beliefs carriers to unravel their deceptions and manipulation. She examines what has shaped us and who benefits from the shaping, probing viewers to imagine what else could be possible. Zhai received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from Pennsylvania State University and is pursuing an MFA in Painting/Printmaking at Yale University. Website: https://www.zhaiwenqing.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wenqing_zhai/?hl=en https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/inkpamani monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/4976576f-0135-49bf-98b7-f1a1f8ee3989/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+1.12.47%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 1: Inkpa Mani, The Spirit of Migration Has a Horse, 2024, oil on birch panels, 96 × 96 inches (243.84 × 243.84 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/1c7cf374-accc-4ac1-9f0f-a9f8f15ccb58/Screenshot+2025-06-04+at+4.00.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 2: Anonymous artist, Jar with Four Faces, ceramic Casas Grandes vase, mid-13th–mid-15th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Chihuahua, Mexico, height 8.69 inches (22.1 cm), The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (1979.206.1171) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/2675e758-604d-4f66-acb6-2c5b537fe20f/Screenshot+2025-06-04+at+4.04.56%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 3: Inkpa Mani, Portrait of Audrey German (“Rattling Chains Woman”), 2023–2024, oil over acrylic on canvas, 48 × 36 inches (121.92 × 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6adabb33-c4f6-497c-8cfc-476feb1d7480/Screenshot+2025-06-04+at+4.06.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 4: Inkpa Mani, Portrait of Audrey German (“Rattling Chains Woman”) [detail], 2023–2024, oil over acrylic on canvas, 48 × 36 inches (121.92 × 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/d0e29dd1-abc1-4e1b-a4eb-f028d30a65be/Screenshot+2025-06-04+at+4.07.27%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 5: Inkpa Mani, Pink Shells in the Sky; My Mother Dies, 2024, oil and acrylic on wood panel, 46 × 32 inches (116.84 × 81.28 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/7153de59-70f7-4761-945c-8a6a9860bfff/Screenshot+2025-06-04+at+4.08.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 6: Inkpa Mani, Chihuahua MX, Landscape, 2025, oil, acrylic, stone dust, iridescent pigment on wood panel, 44 × 32 inches (111.76 × 81.28 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/5045825c-2f2b-4297-8b79-5d5e92faa7ac/Screenshot+2025-06-04+at+4.18.34%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 7: Inkpa Mani, Sand in My Eyes, Sand in My Heart; All Stones Turn To Dust, 2025, crushed stone, marble dust, quartz sand, acrylic medium, and powdered pigments on canvas, 36 × 36 inches (91.44 × 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/dc511971-46f4-4c83-967f-2383998cd97d/Screenshot+2025-06-04+at+4.19.41%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 8: Inkpa Mani, Dakuska: Sacred Movement, 2024, 60,000 lbs of Dolomite limestone, 56 × 3 × 10 ft (1,706.88 × 91.44 × 304.8 cm), Sisseton, South Dakota. Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/e90c402e-d334-4d55-ba46-04d981f9f23a/Screenshot+2025-06-04+at+4.21.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 9: Inkpa Mani, Black Sunflower, 2024, oil over acrylic on canvas, 48 × 36 inches (121.92 × 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/be3f1d6a-63d8-4560-ac30-321313f3aebd/IMG_3729.jpeg Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 10: Inkpa Mani, Taku Eye Kte?: What Will I Tell Her?, 2025, acrylic and oil on ram board and basalt stone, 10 × 3.5 feet (304.8 × 106.68 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/02b86795-f7f7-407a-ab49-6a32e82857e6/IMG_3737.jpeg Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 11: Inkpa Mani, The Down Fall Will Always Follow You, 2025, acrylic and oil on ram board and basalt stone, 10 × 3.5 feet (304.8 × 106.68 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/6e1bc743-37b2-4fee-ae4b-d699c2daec06/IMG_3739.jpeg Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Figure 12: Inkpa Mani, Installation view of Anthropophagy: Exodus 20:12, 2025, acrylic and oil on ram board and basalt stone, 10 × 3.5 feet (304.8 × 106.68 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Inkpa Mani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/96caf0cc-f47f-4bf0-9f62-6929bd1a78d2/IMG_9251.jpg Artist Interviews - Resisting Death: In Conversation with Inkpa Mani - Make it stand out Inkpa Mani Inkpa Mani (he/him) honors the people, places, and spirits that shape his life in his painting practice. Working with acrylic, oil, and stone, he creates textured, abstract surfaces grounded in Indigenous aesthetics. Drawing from the landscapes and cultural traditions of the Great Plains and Northern Mexico, his work engages the spiritual and material legacies of his ancestors. Through surface, color, and geometry, Mani expands the possibilities of Indigenous art—resisting homogenous flattening, hegemony, and placing his voice within a long and evolving history of abstraction. He is an Indigenous Mexican-American painter, stone sculptor, and educator. Raised between Chihuahua, Mexico, and the Lake Traverse Reservation in Minnesota, he is of Tarahumara, Conchos, and Masea Mexica descent. His work draws from Indigenous abstraction and figuration to explore resistance to death, rematriation, and cultural continuity. Indigenous aesthetics shape his paintings and stone sculptures through material exploration, symbolic form, and cultural memory, carrying forward stories of survival, spirituality, and ancestral belonging. Mani holds a BFA from the University of South Dakota, where he was an Oscar Howe Curatorial Fellow. His work has been exhibited at the Plains Art Museum, Akta Lakota Museum, Two Rivers Gallery, and All My Relations Gallery, and he has been commissioned for public art projects by the City of Minneapolis, Yale Divinity School, Williams College, and the State of North Dakota. Mani has also worked as a visual art educator in secondary and post-secondary institutions, supporting Native students and communities through culturally grounded arts education. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inkpa_mani_art/?hl=en https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/marfigueroa monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b07c10c4-5db1-4208-b7d9-1807a657599b/Screenshot+2025-06-01+at+12.10.32%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 1: Mar Figueroa, Two Tongues, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 48 × 36 inches (121.92 × 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Mar Figueroa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/50103646-6a71-408f-a7c3-4d1ae6b105cb/Screenshot+2025-06-03+at+9.48.36%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 2: Studio view of Mar Figueroa’s Yale MFA studio. Photo: courtesy the artist © Mar Figueroa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/fa7bd873-24fa-4dab-b881-bb4f1829ff90/Screenshot+2025-06-01+at+12.15.11%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 3: Shahzia Sikander, The Scroll, 1989–1990, vegetable color, dry pigment, watercolor, and tea on hand-prepared wasli paper, 63.88 × 13.5 inches (162.26 × 34.29 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery © Shahzia Sikander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/c0b2f3f5-e89b-4082-ae31-281a1f793101/Screenshot+2025-06-03+at+9.45.34%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 4: Mar Figueroa, To Dance in the Dark, and Vanquish the Devouring Weeds, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 35.5 × 43.5 inches (90.17 × 110.49 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Mar Figueroa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/fe49ec47-96d7-40f2-958e-69dcbd2fdbe1/Screenshot+2025-06-01+at+12.30.29%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 5: “Veiled Lady” fungus (Phallus indusiatus). Photo: courtesy Wikipedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/43385ee6-dee1-4b20-a569-00e6ce67d87c/Screenshot+2025-06-02+at+3.41.18%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 6: Mar Figueroa, All Night I Rose and Fell, My Thoughts Floating Light as Moths, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 35.5 × 23.5 inches (90.17 × 59.69 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Mar Figueroa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/06fd38c2-38c8-46f0-9b08-6bfde872b6e6/Screenshot+2025-06-01+at+12.46.07%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 7: Mar Figueroa, Blessed Waters for the Soul and the Flesh, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 48 × 36 inches (121.92 × 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Mar Figueroa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/b1d269de-d4f8-4917-bf1b-4cdb4aa21cbf/Screenshot+2025-06-03+at+9.38.31%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 8: Mar Figueroa, Blessed Waters for the Soul and the Flesh (detail), 2023, acrylic on canvas, 48 × 36 inches (121.92 × 91.44 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Mar Figueroa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/82babeea-d697-4cdb-9f88-845cede4665d/Screenshot+2025-06-03+at+10.04.21%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 9: Mar Figueroa, Portrait as Daphne, Remembering Her Human Skin, 2025, oil on canvas, 60 × 48 inches (152.4 × 121.92 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Mar Figueroa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/8594ae5d-c354-402b-ae0c-c4351c8d37e1/Screenshot+2025-06-03+at+9.42.57%E2%80%AFAM.png Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 10: Mar Figueroa, Portrait as Daphne, Remembering Her Human Skin (detail), 2025, oil on canvas, 60 × 48 inches (152.4 × 121.92 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Mar Figueroa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/398456bd-eb2a-46b1-bb27-1789d9366662/Mar+Figueroa+Artwork+4.jpg Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Figure 11: Mar Figueroa, Untitled, 2025, oil on canvas, 75 × 30 inches (190.5 × 76.2 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Mar Figueroa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/faac1de2-deff-4e4a-ad63-39e6d25d6248/Mar+Figueroa+Portrait+1.jpg Artist Interviews - Between the Seams: In Conversation with Mar Figueroa - Make it stand out Mar Figueroa Mar Figueroa (b. 1993, Guayaquil, Ecuador) is pursuing an MFA in Painting/Printmaking at the Yale School of Art, graduating in 2026. Her work explores the porous boundary between the domestic and natural worlds—thresholds where ants traverse, plants lean inward, and the spirit world remains embedded in the everyday. Drawing from Andean cosmologies, she paints the slow, unseen processes of transformation, where the self is shaped in reciprocity with nature. A Forbes “30 Under 30” honoree, MacDowell fellow and Hopper Prize recipient, she has taught at RISD and SVA, and will debut at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery this fall. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bymarfigueroa/ https://www.laraxenia.com/artist-interviews/yuweitu monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/36706531-f670-4aec-bcc1-24805c3899ce/Screenshot+2025-05-27+at+9.52.42%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 1: Yuwei Tu, Self-Portrait of a Daughter, 2024, from the Wherever Your Mother’s Shadow Falls series, oil on ACM panel, 12 × 9 inches (30.48 × 22.86 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Yuwei Tu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/18c69d37-65da-41d1-a73c-6209fce64500/_MG_3906.jpeg Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 2: Yuwei Tu, In brace 2025, from the Skin series, oil on panel with steel frame, 10 × 8 inches × 0.75 inches (25.4 × 20.32 × 1.91 cm); overall: approximately 11 × 10 × 2 inches (27.94 × 25.4 × 5.08 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Yuwei Tu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/293f52e7-32a9-4eba-bde3-abcd1069a0de/_MG_3748.jpeg Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 3: Yuwei Tu, Wear, 2025, from the Skin series, oil on panel with steel frame, 10 x 8 × 0.75 inches (25.4 × 20.32 × 1.91 cm.); overall: approximately 11 × 9 × 1 inches (27.94 × 22.86 × 2.54 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Yuwei Tu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/af51f2e7-00fc-4fbc-804c-45c337b02b9d/Screenshot+2025-05-27+at+10.07.37%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 4: Louise Bourgeois, Crouching Spider [Maman], 2003. Courtesy Dia Beacon, Cheim & Read and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/217ebf0f-0bbb-405d-a633-e9b6b612c4f3/yuwei+tu.png Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 5: Studio installation view of Yuwei Tu, Skin series, 2025. Photo: courtesy the artist © Yuwei Tu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/db9b719a-9326-43c5-8cbf-3ab399330d5b/Screenshot+2025-05-27+at+10.16.40%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 6: Yuwei Tu, Mirror Phases, 2025, liquid latex, oil on yupo, wood glue, and paper pulp from old drawings, approximately 36 × 20 inches (91.44 × 50.8 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Yuwei Tu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/f3cd2d49-23f2-4dd1-8757-26976f4e2100/Screenshot+2025-05-27+at+10.18.57%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 7: Yuwei Tu, Wherever Your Mother’s Shadow Falls, from the Wherever Your Mother’s Shadow Falls series, 2024, oil on ACM panel, 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Yuwei Tu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/ec102ea7-e1fe-4598-a3d3-b344f0a5c0b2/Screenshot+2025-05-27+at+10.29.19%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 9: Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, 2024, featuring cover photograph by Sam Contis © Sam Contis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/da987813-89a0-4080-8234-9c2e221a0daf/Screenshot+2025-05-27+at+10.31.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 11: Yuwei Tu, Sunday Morning with R, 2022, oil on ACM panel, 24 × 20 inches (60.96 × 50.8 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Yuwei Tu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/dafa135c-0a5b-4796-b502-b91da34acfcd/Screenshot+2025-05-27+at+10.37.28%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 13: Yuwei Tu, Week-Old Lilies, 2024, from the Wherever Your Mother’s Shadow Falls series, oil on ACM panel, 20 × 16 inches (60.96 × 50.8 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Yuwei Tu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/3378f116-ff16-4bc9-9a12-21f1c2568597/Screenshot+2025-05-27+at+10.38.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 14: Yuwei Tu, Already Behind Us, from the Wherever Your Mother’s Shadow Falls series, 2024, oil on ACM panel, 20 × 16 inches (60.96 × 50.8 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Yuwei Tu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/48e69bd6-1bc9-4bfe-8cdd-b3a91d2324fc/Screenshot+2025-05-27+at+10.40.07%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Figure 15: Yuwei Tu, Joker, 2024, from the Wherever Your Mother’s Shadow Falls series, oil on ACM panel, 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm). Photo: courtesy the artist © Yuwei Tu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62671ef906b6d567fc8b4092/08039f73-a56a-4811-9c28-078addf73f07/_MG_3703+2.jpg Artist Interviews - Mirror Phases: In Conversation with Yuwei Tu - Make it stand out Yuwei Tu Using a layered process, Yuwei Tu (b. 1995, Sichuan, China) articulates the nuance and complexity of interiority through painting. Her work is informed by personal experiences and investigations in the construction of identities and relationships to create a visual language of the psyche. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Painting/Printmaking at Yale School of Art, class of 2026. 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