Visionary Art | Ephemera NYC

Mar 10, 2019

WILLIAM MORTENSEN

The art world is always pulling creators from the margins into the center—both as a way of revitalizing interest in the market and as a means of clearing away stagnating trends. Historical artists long relegated to the shadows can also sometimes emerge into the light when we realize that their marginal status has been a grotesque...

By: Brian

Feb 11, 2019

ALESSANDRO KEEGAN

My greatest regret in assessing the newest artwork by Alessandro Keegan is that I have to fall back on comparing it to other artists and movements of the past. Not that I’m alone in this. Critic Sasha Frere-Jones just name-dropped two genres of art and two pop culture references in the span of a single paragraph in...

By: Brian

Nov 25, 2018

ATI MAIER

Ati Maier is one of the favorite artists of this website as seen by glowing reviews here and here. Her work skirts the line between the liberal (bourgeois) arts and the conspiracy-filled world of subculture by virtue of its mix of action-painting technique and an openness to the mysteries which lie beyond the purview of...

By: Brian

Sep 18, 2018

ART EPHEMERA TV: Orange Crate Art (Interview)

Orange Crate Art (née Tobias Bernsand) has been the soundtrack composer for our two latest episodes of Art Ephemera TV (#3 and 4, seen here and here). His music has not only become a central component of this short documentary series but is now a source of fascination for many of the followers of this site....

By: Brian

Aug 7, 2018

JEN HITCHINGS

The din of partisan rhetoric being what it is these days, the one thing everyone seems to be able to agree on is that the system works for a privileged few, to the exclusion of everyone else. Whether a new exhibition by artist Jen Hitchings, titled “Cry Me a River” (at the MEN Gallery in Chinatown), deals...

By: Brian

Aug 4, 2018

ART EPHEMERA TV: EPISODE 4

Episode 4 of “Art Ephemera TV,” this website’s short documentary series on Vimeo and YouTube, is now complete! It chronicles the New Zealand-born artist Susan Te Kahurangi King who lost her speech between the age of four and eight and has spent the last 50+ years creating a compendium of observations, feelings, and imaginary worlds through...

By: Brian