A meeting of two worlds: Ken Gun Min by Layla Leiman LA based artist Ken Gun Min blends together Eastern and Western influences in his fluid, gestural painting. He is inspired by art traditions...
Landscapes that glow. Nick McPhail’s LA paintings by Layla Leiman Nick McPhail’s paintings glow. They radiate the saturated hues that characterize the light in Los Angeles. Nick’s paintings typically depict...
Know your history: In conversation with gallerist Tristian Koenig by Layla Leiman For Melbourne based gallerist and curator Tristian Koenig, art is the driving force of life. Having worked across a range of fields within t...
Henry Curchod: “The more you know, the less you know.” by Layla Leiman Our preoccupation with nostalgia is something that interests Iranian-Australian artist Henry Curchod. Reflecting on the etymology of the wor...
Between intuition and intention: drawings by Nasim Hantehzadeh by Layla Leiman The organic, amorphous forms that populate Iranian-American artist Nasim Hantehzadeh’s large-scale drawings occupy a space between abstracti...
Straddling the two and three-dimensional with Milly Peck by Maria Zemtsova The soft humour and definitive emphatic detail of mundane scenes in the work of Milly Peck are hypnotizing. Playing with the motifs of gestu...
Forming and folding space: In conversation with Sanne Maloe Slecht by Layla Leiman Sanne Maloe Slecht’s studio looks like a whirlwind has passed through it. Paint splatters everything, printed references are strewn about an...
“I want to paint like there’s no tomorrow”— in conversation with Zander Blom by Layla Leiman “I have believed in the idea of perpetual change as a vehicle for innovation and discovery in painting for a long time,” South African artis...
Playing with perception: In conversation with Susan Metrican by Layla Leiman For Susan Metrican, the frame and surface of the canvas is not the boundary of the work, but an edge upon which to build from. In her playfu...
Monuments to belonging: In conversation with Padma Rajendran by Layla Leiman What are the rituals that orientate us, locate us, and make us feel like we belong? What constitutes our perception of home? These are the q...
The Devil on the boards: In conversation with Chris Capoyianes by Layla Leiman A horned figure with menacing grin and pronged tail struts and preens upon a stage. A snake slithers through the boughs of an apple tree. Tw...
The blurry sweet spot: In conversation with Kenichi Hoshine by Layla Leiman As you look at the colorful and at first glance apparently abstract paintings of New York based artist Kenichi Hoshine, the curtain suddenly...
“Good, true, beautiful”: in conversation with Janes Haid-Schmallenberg by Layla Leiman In today’s hyper-connected digital world where everything conceivable counts as content, what’s left for the artist to paint? For Berlin-bas...
What does it mean to be alive today? In conversation with Srijon Chowdhury by Layla Leiman There is an urgency to Srijon Chowdhury’s art. The enigmatic imagery in his paintings references diverse histories, contemporary and ancient...
Bodies dissolve into blobs; figures into forms: in conversation with James English Leary by Maria Zemtsova The fleshy forms in James English Leary’s paintings are provocatively playful, titillating and tongue in cheek. The shapes of the built canv...
Celestial bodies: in conversation with Vivian Greven by Layla Leiman Love is the subject of German artist Vivian Greven’s work. In her ethereal paintings, which borrow visually and thematically from Classical ...
