Artist Interview: Judith Kruger
Judith Kruger is an American abstract painter whose work focuses on the Human-Environment connection. She manipulates globally sourced natural matter “as paint”. Her contemporary practice re-contextualizes the ancient processes of Nihonga, traditional Japanese mineral pigment painting (Nihon translates as Japan, and ga as painting, literally “Japanese-style paintings”). She received her BFA from Syracuse University and […]
Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and author of The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and the Market in Early Modernity (Amsterdam University Press, 2012). Javier Berzal: What attracted you to Frans Hals [1580-1666] in the first place? Christopher […]
Profile of the Artist Rodney Carswell
hither and yon (little prisons) i meander; escape the straight and narrow…only to be so; drift in a random circuit; stray, losing the path. i make geometric repetition; mark a border to enforce a limit; my enclosures dictate direction; my outside determines interior; i move: up/down, left/right, back/forth, to/fro, along plumb & plane. i […]
Interview with Grant Hamilton, Director of TIME ZERO
In February 2008, when Polaroid announced that it would cease production on all instant film, director Grant Hamilton chose to tell the story of this beloved photographic medium which resulted in his first ever feature length film, TIME ZERO: The Last Year of Polaroid Film (2012). Click here to read the AF Project’s first article […]
The AF Interview with Master Sheng-Yao
Distinguished Art Founders Artist Master Sheng-Yao’s (Master Shen-Long; Chan Sheng-Yao; 詹聖堯) philosophy, theories and artistic creations offer a new perspective on art, and on life itself. He is a master of the classical literati perfections of painting, poetry and calligraphy. He demonstrates full possession, knowledge, control and execution of these traditional Chinese skills, displaying an […]