Meet the Artists Pushing Ecological Art Forward
No matter how high the thermometer climbs in L.A., Ron Finley never fills his backyard swimming pool with water. The fashion designer turned artist and urban gardener—he’s famous for an …
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In Marguerite Humeau’s Artworks, Rare Lifeforms Survive the Climate Apocalypse
Marguerite Humeau imagines worlds in which the climate crisis has caused new kinds of creatures to alarmingly evolve. Her current exhibition at the ICA in Miami, which is being installed …
Firelei Báez’s Paintings Capture the Dominican Diasporic Experience
“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 …
Painter Lauren Satlowski Turns Personal Treasures Into Fine Art
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 …
Artist Jenny Holzer’s Latest Exhibition Goes Beyond Words
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 …
Artist Jamian Juliano-Villani Wants to Keep You Guessing
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. …
Artist Xingzi Gu’s Dreamy Paintings Explore the Dark Side of Coming of Age
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, …
Artist Ding Shilun Makes His Own Mythology
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 …
Meet Loie Hollowell, the Artist Abstracting the Female Body
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, …
For Guadalupe Maravilla, Making Art Is a Form of Healing
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 …