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Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. His work has been widely exhibited internationally and in the […]

Ben Evans is the Director of the London Design Festival, which he co-founded with Sir John Sorrell in 2003. The Festival celebrates and promotes London as the design capital of the world and has inspired similar events in many international cities. It is an annual event involving 300 partner organisations and attracts over 600,000 individual […]

Joshua Schwebel is a conceptual artist interested in the relationship between value and visibility. His work reveals the concept of value as a cultural construct borne through hidden ties to morality and privilege, by exposing the cultural and social techniques employed in value construction. In his work he devises strategies to reveal the politics of […]

Paul McDevitt is a British artist living in Berlin. Paul graduated with an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, in 2000. He has exhibited extensively since then, published several books, and co-curated a series of projects with Declan Clarke.  McDevitt’s studio practice is centered around drawing, painting, and print. He recently opened […]

Brian Bress, a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker, creates absurd, circularly narrative films driven by the circumstances of a bizarre cast of ridiculously costumed characters, more often than not played by Bress himself. Though they rely predominantly on homemade props and costumes, Bress’s videos are visually innovative and their inherent silliness and rambling pace […]

Karl Haendel is an artist who makes drawings, installations, films, and public projects. He received a BA from Brown University in 1998 and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. He also studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Articles and reviews […]

Kim Schoen’s work in photography, video installation, and text experiments with the rhetoric of display. She takes existing representations—ones intended to persuade and convince—as her starting point, and through the process of making reframes how the objects and language we take for granted may affect us. In Schoen’s work, the blank repetition of consumer culture […]