Traveling around NYC, a 14 foot box truck has been transformed into a diorama-style outdoor sculpture that is a stage for both visual and performance art, inspired by domestic scenes and stories shared on this site. Swoon, uses intricate cutaways, painting, and performance to build a world that blends reality and wonder. As a roving, mobile sculpture, The House Our Families Built asks viewers to consider the legacy of ancestral histories. Read the full article at https://www.pbs.org/american-portrait/public-art/the-house-our-families-built/

Michael Reeder’s first solo exhibition with Allouche Gallery, Pushing Up Daisies, is a stunning full-on mashup of Pop Surrealism at its best. Reeder employs Pop’s mass production techniques and pleasant displacement with Surrealism’s provoking desires and shifting angst, next to a sense of duality between life and death, a heavy dose of noir neo-expressionism and a deep bite of dark humor. Read the full article at https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/up-daisies-at-allouche-gallery/5616

Street and installation artist Swoon, aka Caledonia Dance Curry (b. 1977) takes much pride in subverting expectations, from the art world and otherwise. “It’s not like I don’t do things because I’m worried that they would be perceived as normal,” says Swoon. “Sometimes in life you are born feeling like a bit of an outsider. When that happens you realize that you have to kind of cut your own path in life.” Read the full article here https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamlehrer/2016/02/13/new-york-street-and-installation-artist-swoon-uses-humanity-as-her-most-powerful-tool/?sh=6b67e2284c16

Michael Reeder’s artwork exudes an ambiguity and with that comes thought provocation, as he wants the viewer to question the sense of self. We see that there’s an essence of modern day surrealism with the dream-like quality of his works, and he reflects this in a contemporary setting with his choice of color palette and the graphic quality.   read the full article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/felicitycarter/2018/08/14/artist-michael-reeder-explores-identity-and-sense-of-self/?sh=8a8dc545903d

This collection is all about exploration of the familiar – looking at the relationship between solitude, independence, and the spaces we inhabit. “The main inspirations I’ve been taking from are interiors that are familiar to me. I have a really deep connection with spaces and the way that humans interact inside a home…the figures are meant to embody the viewer and stand as something we can see in all of us”   Read the full article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/felicitycarter/2018/02/01/ben-evans-opens-his-latest-exhibition-kink-today/?sh=1a7868d04742

Restrained paintings by Anaja Hvastija Gaia, curated by Sophia Ballesteros, use the thinnest application of oil paint I’ve seen in a minute to produce an effervescent effect on otherwise simple compositions of pale, round bodies coalescing with expanses of desert. LOS ANGELES — There’s a perennial booth rule at Spring/Break Art Show: “No white walls.” This directive gave the warehouse space in Culver City the aura of a migraine without the headache. I was offered a tour during the fair’s opening, but I preferred to drift and collect my little papers as I went, letting myself be drawn in by