Author: Brainard Carey

Chase Biado said bridging fantasy and art once felt off limits, asif he were“smuggling childhood interests into a contemporaryconversation.”In reality, fantasy is a critical facet of adultlife.“We’re having these epic mythological experiences—inourheads and in our relationships,”he said.“But on the exterior,we’re going about our daily lives.”Biado’s style, draped injubilation, entices viewers to imagine, for a second, […]

Chase Biado said bridging fantasy and art once felt off limits, asif he were“smuggling childhood interests into a contemporaryconversation.”In reality, fantasy is a critical facet of adultlife.“We’re having these epic mythological experiences—inourheads and in our relationships,”he said.“But on the exterior,we’re going about our daily lives.”Biado’s style, draped injubilation, entices viewers to imagine, for a second, […]

Chase Biado said bridging fantasy and art once felt off limits, asif he were“smuggling childhood interests into a contemporaryconversation.”In reality, fantasy is a critical facet of adultlife.“We’re having these epic mythological experiences—inourheads and in our relationships,”he said.“But on the exterior,we’re going about our daily lives.”Biado’s style, draped injubilation, entices viewers to imagine, for a second, […]

Chase Biado said bridging fantasy and art once felt off limits, asif he were“smuggling childhood interests into a contemporaryconversation.”In reality, fantasy is a critical facet of adultlife.“We’re having these epic mythological experiences—inourheads and in our relationships,”he said.“But on the exterior,we’re going about our daily lives.”Biado’s style, draped injubilation, entices viewers to imagine, for a second, […]

Chase Biado said bridging fantasy and art once felt off limits, asif he were“smuggling childhood interests into a contemporaryconversation.”In reality, fantasy is a critical facet of adultlife.“We’re having these epic mythological experiences—inourheads and in our relationships,”he said.“But on the exterior,we’re going about our daily lives.”Biado’s style, draped injubilation, entices viewers to imagine, for a second, […]

Chase Biado said bridging fantasy and art once felt off limits, asif he were“smuggling childhood interests into a contemporaryconversation.”In reality, fantasy is a critical facet of adultlife.“We’re having these epic mythological experiences—inourheads and in our relationships,”he said.“But on the exterior,we’re going about our daily lives.”Biado’s style, draped injubilation, entices viewers to imagine, for a second, […]

Chase Biado said bridging fantasy and art once felt off limits, asif he were“smuggling childhood interests into a contemporaryconversation.”In reality, fantasy is a critical facet of adultlife.“We’re having these epic mythological experiences—inourheads and in our relationships,”he said.“But on the exterior,we’re going about our daily lives.”Biado’s style, draped injubilation, entices viewers to imagine, for a second, […]

Dapper Bruce Lafitte (b. 1972 New Orleans) is a self-trained artist who began making and showing work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to commemorate the then-decimated street culture of parades and marching bands of New Orleans. He has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, notably at the Prospect Biennial, New Orleans, and in solo shows […]

“I am genuinely trying to make beautiful paintings. Not beautiful by contemporary standards of beauty, but something more atemporal or enduring. My paintings are not anchored in any particular period. I like art that is beautiful, even if that makes no sense in our era. No one discusses whether things are beautiful or not anymore. […]

Tom Burckhardt was born in New York City in 1964. He attended SUNY Purchase and graduated with a BFA in painting in 1986, after which he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been the subject of over thirty solo exhibitions at institutions including the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, […]