Our dialogues have been mutually inspiring and have informed my focus and my photographs in subtle ways. What comes out of Henry’s mouth in conversation is completely unpredictable, and it is our meandering exchanges that keep the friendship alive and fresh. The text below is an excerpt from a recent phone conversation we had between New York and LA.


Done with just spraycans. :-)

London based, Lapland born artist Riikka Hyvönen, recreates the bruises on the thighs of Roller Derby players as giant artworks painstakingly rendered to capture the athletes’ injuries.

This 19th century artist painted breathtakingly beautiful translucent waves that still continue to amaze the world.

Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn kept sketchbooks for his entire career; they served as a sort of nomadic studio where he experimented with visuals that bridged figurative and abstract ideas.

Technology is now allowing artists to do something they’ve aspired to since the stone age: make their paintings move.

It's Fine with Sam McKinniss and Sarah Nicole Prickett is an hour-long, often weekly show for alcoholic lovers of heartbreak in the contemporary art world. We tell mean jokes, talk about our days, and play a lot of strong female vocalists.

Hyperrealism is a visual art form, of which the end product is meant to resemble a high-resolution photograph. It differs from photorealism in that, with hyperrealism, the artist isn't using a photo as his inspiration. In my mind, this makes the work that much more impressive. Gustavo Silva Nuñez is an artist based in Venezuela, and he's got it down.

Hyper-realistic paintings by Gregory Thielker.

A banknote from 1380 that threatens decapitation, a set of 17th-century prints so delicate they had never been opened, and 3000-year-old ‘oracle bones’ are now freely available for the world to view on the Cambridge Digital Library.  

Japenese artist Akino Kondoh is based in New York and has internationally exhibited her work in various media such as animation, manga, drawing and painting. Her newest work does not disappoint.

By Norman Rockwell, 1967, Oil on canvas.

I submitted one smaller as a picture. I decided to try one bigger and film it. I thought I would do better with a bigger canvas, but I think this one was actually worse!

“If the great European artists of the past were alive today, what kinds of statements would they need to write to explain and justify their work?”

...as never before, the vital presence of Earth as of a creature alive but tranced and obscurely yearning to wake.

Any idea?

Ever splashed yourself with coffee? Then you know its staining powers. But where some see a ruined shirt, others have found a canvas. For artist Maria Aristidou, it all started with a latte. "I was working on another commission using watercolors, when all the sudden, I spilled all over the drawing," she says.

A German crew has transformed the village of Palmitas into a vibrant rainbow, connecting the community of more than 200 homes through an array of colorful hues.