“These here are little protective hair buns, or anchoitas,” says the Dominican-born artist Firelei Báez during the last days of summer, pointing to a series of sensuous, inky coiled-hair paintings …
On a muggy afternoon in late July, Lauren Satlowski is walking around her two-room studio, perched on a high floor in a century-old Art Deco tower in the historic core …
Jenny Holzer has used text as an art form for decades. The artist’s gripping, urgent messages—“Protect me from what I want” and “Abuse of power comes as no surprise”—have been …
Jamian Juliano-Villani makes unlikely mash-ups. In her paintings, she juxtaposes weirdly nostalgic images that she has voraciously collected from old books, the Internet, her constantly playing television—wherever she finds them. …
It has only been three months since Xingzi Gu (who uses they/them pronouns) completed their MFA at New York University and moved into their first, official studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, …
Visiting Ding Shilun’s studio, in an industrial area of west London, is like stepping into a dream—or, possibly, a fantastical nightmare. In one huge canvas, a naked man leans back …
On a late December afternoon in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, Loie Hollowell ushers me inside her immaculate studio and introduces me to her tabby, Felix. Christmas is days away, …
Guadalupe Maravilla’s studio is not the usual artist’s workplace. Most of the time, there are no artworks in it; instead, conch horns, flutes, and gongs—his healing instruments, as he describes …
One sculpture in progress inside Katie Stout’s new studio is a verdant ceramic creature whose frogginess is belied by shiny gold human lips. The base is a spiral familiar to …
Jiang Cheng is sitting on a brown leather sofa in his airy, high-ceilinged Shanghai studio. It’s 5 p.m., a couple of hours before he usually starts the day. The studio …