by Kenza Aloui | Dec 1, 2021 | Studio Tours
It was all about catching Julien Berthier somewhere. That somewhere ended up being on FaceTime at the Vienna International Airport, on the artist’s way back to France after a trip to Belgrade. Luckily it was less crowded than usual. Julien’s plane was late and, for...
by Kenza Aloui | Nov 30, 2021 | Work
It is a sunny day on Marine Giraudo’s side of the screen, yet a bit windy. In Paris it is pouring rain again, and I had almost forgotten what summer looked like. Marine hadn’t. She’d spent some family time in Bretagne and just met her friends in a country house in the...
by Natasha Levy | Nov 29, 2021 | Work
“This isn’t where I do the messy stuff,” Daniel Widrig says as he wanders through his studio, a stone’s throw from Hackney Wick train station in east London. The stark workspace is limited to an oversized wooden table, a couple of leather sofas, and a floor-to-ceiling...
by Suzanne Wales | Nov 22, 2021 | Work
It’s just past lunchtime in Berlin when Lilo Klinkenberg finishes doing what she does nearly every morning. “I am looking for a big tree to bring to a shoot next week. So I was outside Berlin looking at trees. It was a lovely start to the day!” She bursts out laughing...
by Chris Force | Nov 14, 2021 | Studio Tours
During a coffee break installing her immersive exhibition “Victoria/Veronica: Making Room” at the MCA, Chicago painter Caroline Kent walks over to Space 159, a concept store in the Gold Coast. She makes a “fancy purchase,” a new notebook. “I like to make lists, but...
by Laura Rote | Nov 11, 2021 | Work
It’s early morning on the northwest side of Amsterdam when Najla El Zein packs up her bicycle and pedals the short distance from her home to her sculpture studio. There, inside the airy space, she is making sense of the world with her hands in clay, making models for...
by Rachel Mendelson | Apr 28, 2021 | Work
Growing up in Dalton, Georgia—the “carpet capital of the world”—Trish Andersen never thought she would do anything with carpet, until a friend sent her a video of people making rugs with a tufting gun in India. “It was like a Kismet moment,” she says. Trish packed up...
by Sophia Conforti | Apr 24, 2021 | Work
For Mimi Jung, an artist whose practice centers on handwoven tapestry and sculpture, her work is often biographical, formed by her psyche and landscape. She splits her time between LA and Montana, where she’s building a new studio on nine acres of lush wilderness—an...
by Sophia Conforti | Apr 22, 2021 | Work
Born in Örebro, Sweden, Camilla Engstrom never thought she’d be a painter. “I was introduced to drawing and watercolors by my grandfather when I was a kid. He was super encouraging and told me I would one day become an artist,” she says. “I thought he was wrong, as I...
by Laura Rote | Dec 31, 2020 | Work
Part house, part art gallery. That’s the premise behind JARtB House, architect Billy Kavellaris’ family home on a tree-lined street with an eclectic mix of housing typologies in Melbourne, Australia. Completed in 2020, JARtB House is an acronym for all the members of...
by Lark Breen | Dec 29, 2020 | Work
London-based Yinka Ilori brings optimism and light to unexpected places with work across mediums. In summer 2019 Yinka’s “Colour Palace” emerged outside Dulwich Picture Gallery as a celebration of his native London as well as his Nigerian roots. Striking in its...
by Sophia Conforti | Jul 15, 2020 | News
Banksy is at it again. The artist sprayed and stenciled a London Underground train with rats that use a face mask as a parachute, hoard hand sanitizer, and sneeze, leaving a trail of blue mucus in their wake. Banksy debuted his latest work in a video on Instagram...
