Ann Vollum’s solo exhibition at The Brassworks Gallery in affluent Montclair, New Jersey is of the highest quality and comprehensive. These dynamic textile works mainly come in two forms of plush ‘beasties’ and graphic ‘beasties’, all hand-sewn and meticulously assembled from recycled fiber materials. Sharp Teeth, Long Tongues! exhibition runs until May 22nd, 2026 and the gallery is open weekdays from 7am-7pm, with easier parking during latter hours. The gallery will also be

Pig Nasty Cuino was a performance by Fina Ferrara during the era of the pandemic. ‘Cuino’ is a colloquial Spanish term which refers to someone as being dirty. Specifically, in Mexican Spanish, ‘cuino’ implies a person as being a slob or having indecent character. Pig Nasty Cuino is a performance about the excesses of oligarchy and greed. As a result, the series of performances are more relevant today because of the overreaching advancement of Big Tech during the era of arti

Photographers and photography enthusiasts often have a mythological narrative about analogue format photography, but what are the alluring attributes of digital photography? Do not misinterpret this essay, because we are not discussing digitally-enhanced photography, but rather work which was captured with a digital camera. Although analogue format photography has stunning granial texture and rich contrast, digital photography offers a pleasant saturation, potential for remar

Written by Joas Nebe. Diambe, from São Paulo, Brazil, presents at Kunsthalle Basel. Diambe explores the dynamics of collectives (like a swarm of bees), the resistances which arises from human interventions, and their controllability. All three aspects come together in his video work Cera perdida (Lost wax) , 2025, presented in Basel. A swarm of bees is exposed to a wax cast made from various tropical and non-tropical fruits and their remnants over several hours. The work Cera

Minyu Zhu is a textile and installation artist who has exhibited in major cities including London, Sydney, and Milan. Recent and notable exhibitions include Coalition Across Differences by Sijie and Meichen as well as Point One the Textiles Festival in London, Salon of the Rose + Cross in Sydney, Del Dente in Milan, RCA WIP Show and Safehouse in London. She is also a graduate from the Royal College of Art, widely considered to be the finest art school in the world. The texti

Theo Luna is an installation, video, light-based, and performance-based artist who has won major awards at festivals hosted by the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Berlin Art Institute. Recent exhibitions include a solo feature at Western Pole Gallery in Chicago as well as collective shows at School of Art Institute, Vagabond Arts, and Site Gallery in Chicago and Universität der Künste Berlin. Using light-based projections, shaped neon lights, texts, a

Elisabeth Hogeman is a collage artist who also works with photography and video and has exhibited across the United States as well as in Canada, and Italy. Recent and notable exhibitions and screenings include Gallery 263 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Logan Center Gallery at University of Chicago, Deluge Contemporary in Victoria BC, Canada, ROMAN SUSAN in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Spectacle Theater in New York, and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. Vanities

Viet Van Tran is a conceptual photographer and filmmaker who has received more than 130 international photography awards, including Px3 (France), IPA, Master Cup (USA), TIFA (Japan), ND Awards, Travel Photographer of the Year, Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year, and the Pollux Awards (UK). He is the author of nine books, notably Dharma and Life (EU-sponsored), and his work has appeared in international publications such as Photo (France), Silvershotz (Australia), Dodho (

Paige Lee Miller is a photographer, printmaker, moving image, and installation artist who has exhibited in Austin, Texas and London, UK. Her work has been published by University of the Arts London, Sanxtuary Magazine, Spark Magazine, and L’Officiel Mexico. Alongside her fine art practice, she also works as a photographer at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Using a variety of interdisciplinary techniques from photo collage to an iterative process of printing / burning / scanning

Şule Bayrak Yildiz is a collage artist who has exhibited throughout Turkey. She describes her process as the following: “ While traveling through cities step by step, I have accumulated a digital archive of thousands of images over many years. In the digital collage stage, I bring together pieces from different times in a single atmosphere through masking, tone-contrast balance, and surface merging”. The works of Şule Bayrak Yildiz incorporate documentative travel collages wh

Joseph Farbrook is an installation, analogue digital, and video artist who has exhibited extensively across the United States and internationally in Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Asia. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the University of Texas Arlington and collective shows at Axiom Contemporary in Phoenix, Polygon Palm in Vancouver, PH21 Gallery in Barcelona, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, and Gallery 4% in San Francisco. Joseph has been pu

Anna Zhang is a fashion designer as well as a textile and video artist who has exhibited in New York and Paris. Recent exhibitions include Paris Grand Palais, Paris Louvre Corousel, ArtExpo and Global Healing event in New York, and New York Fashion Week. Anna has received first place honours and notable recognition with the American Good Design Award, French Fashion Award, IDA Award, Muse Award, and IF Design Award. She has been published by Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. The per

Lorette C. Luzajic is an assemblage artist who has exhibited all over the world and particularly in Canada. Her work has been collected by collectors from over forty countries and recent exhibitions in Toronto include Propeller Gallery, 21 St. Clair Ave E, Gerrard Art Space, Northern Contemporary Gallery, and Blue Crow Gallery. Recent international exhibitions include Menil'8 in Paris and Black Box Gallery in A Coruña, Spain. Lorette is also a writer and founding editor of Th

Bert Leveille is an installation and video artist as well as a light designer who has exhibited extensively in Illinois since 1971. She has also exhibited multiple times in Los Angeles. Recent solo features includes multiple showings at Starline Gallery in Harvard, Illinois and her collective exhibitions include several inclusions at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art as well as Blue Moon Gallery in Grayslake, Illinois, and Stola Contemporary Art in Chicago. The light de

artwork by Van O (Ivan Isaev) Much of the contemporary art world is based on illusory aspects of power. There are of course the supposed gatekeepers, but who are these people and do they really determine the threshold of access? They are the museum / gallery director, the curator, the art critic (and critical art publications), the academic scholar, and the financier. These various roles and individuals have been granted the collective power of determining what is art. But wh

Written by Joas Nebe. Luc Delahaye (born 1962) worked as a war photographer in the 1990s. War photographers are at the heart of the action. They require highly automated and lightweight equipment that can be quickly moved from one location to another. The images captured with these small (digital) cameras have a certain resolution, dictated by the medium, film or later, the chip in the camera, which is sufficient to be published in newspapers or magazines. Often, the lack of

Enne Tesse is a fiber, installation, text artist, and costume designer who has exhibited extensively in the United States especially in New York state as well as internationally in Japan. Her most notable exhibitions include MoMA PS1 in New York, Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto. Recent exhibitions include Super Secret Projects in Beacon, New York, G-Town Arts in Georgetown, Connecticut, and Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Enne

Jasmine Christie (also known as ANTICHRISTIE) is an analogue digital artist who has exhibited across the United Kingdom and internationally in Athens, São Paulo, and Barcelona. Recent exhibitions include Arrival Gallery in Athens, Artlymix in São Paulo, Galería Agaphe in Barcelona, IMPREINT Space in London, Fabric Studios in Liverpool and The Holy Art Gallery in Paros Island, Greece. Utilizing an aesthetic reminiscent of Vaporwave, New Wave, and Synthwave elements along with

In the age of artificial intelligence, there is no greater currency than the ability to draw people’s attention. With the endless amount of AI slop in the form of automated texts and images filling our personal and professional spaces, how does the artist thrive amidst a sea of crap? Well first of all, the artist should not be too hard on themselves because historically what draws the attention of the masses rarely turns out to be great art. Being able to click-bait mass atte

Masha Luch is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with video, photography, installation, textiles, book arts, and printmaking. With a background in fashion design and motion graphics, Masha has been extensively published by Point Pleasant Publishing, both in the Artist Feature Catalogue and Point Pleasant Journal . Her most recent exhibitions include The House of Smalls Gallery in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Onboards Biennale / M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp,

Nancy Staub Laughlin is an assemblage artist who has exhibited throughout the Northeastern United States. Her work has been extensively critically published including by the late art critic Sam Hunter from Princeton University. Some recent exhibitions include Gormley Gallery at Maryland University in Baltimore, Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, New Jersey, Carter Burden Gallery and West Gallery in New York. In terms of assemblage, Nancy Staub

Joas Nebe is a collage and video artist who has exhibited across Europe and the United States. Recent exhibitions include Decagon Gallery and Starta Arta Gallery in New York, Earth Gallery and Biddle Brothers in London, Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, and MADS Gallery in Milan. He has been published by notable publications such as LandEscape Contemporary Art Review - Biennale edition, New York Weekly, and Disruptor Magazine. The collage work of Joas Nebe focuses on how sem

Pauline Galiana is an installation, assemblage, and video artist who has exhibited particularly across the Northeastern United States. Recent exhibitions include International Drawing Space, A Space Gallery, LES Ecology Center, Artspace, Sojourner Gallery, Human Impact Institute, and Westbeth Gallery in New York, The Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck, New Jersey , Town Hall Community Center Gallery in Randolph, New Hampshire, and Kay Daugherty Gallery in Solomons, Maryland. F

Ann Vollum is a fiber and textile artist who has exhibited extensively in the New Jersey / New York metropolitan area. Recent exhibitions include Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University in Newark, Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, Culture Lab and The Painting Center in New York, Art House Productions, Gallery 14C, and Gallery Art 150 Gallery in Jersey City, Leach Gallery, in Montclair, and Watchung Arts Center. Usually depicting fantastical creatures which she describes