Articles of ‘Stephen Knudsen’

Namwon Choi: Blue Distant

Namwon Choi: Blue Distant

Sandler Hudson Gallery - Atlanta, Ga.

By John Rise and Stephen Knudsen

In “Blue Distant” the paintings and objects made by Namwon Choi offer a visual, cultural, and spiritual feast. It is too much for a complete review here, even if we were qualified to remark on the pictorial elements in the paintings that refer to Choi’s [...]



Agility, Dimension, Imagination: SCAD Scripts the Future of Arts Education

Agility, Dimension, Imagination: SCAD Scripts the Future of Arts Education

ARTPULSE Sr. Editor Stephen Knudsen interviews Savannah College of Art and Design President and Founder, Paula Wallace
Savannah College of Art and Design stands apart in higher education by offering unique, forward thinking degree programs and relevant majors for creative professionals. With locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia, and Lacoste, France-in addition to SCAD eLearning-SCAD [...]



Marcus Dunn: Other Youth

Marcus Dunn: Other Youth

SCAD Museum of Art - Savannah, GA.
By Stephen Knudsen

“Other Youth“ is artist Marcus Dunn’s first solo museum exhibition. The paintings portray a dark chapter of history in which Indian children were forcibly removed from their families and put into North American government boarding schools-all in an effort to remove the “Other.”
Dunn shares openly that he [...]



Perspective. A Conversation with Anton Ginzburg

Perspective. A Conversation with Anton Ginzburg

By Stephen Knudsen

Anton Ginzburg is a New York-based artist and filmmaker. Born in 1974 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ginzburg received a classical arts education before immigrating to the United States in 1990. His art has been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale, Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Palais de [...]



Silver. A Conversation with Jon Field

Silver. A Conversation with Jon Field

Artist Jon Field pushes hundreds of thousands of dress pins into yards of black velvet to translate imagery from popular culture into surprising pictures. These reincarnated images of prejudiced materials detach into space, they shimmer, almost radiant, as light plays off pins, as the viewer moves and as the perception shifts from the [...]



For the Love of Painting. A Conversation with Julie Heffernan

For the Love of Painting. A Conversation with Julie Heffernan

Julie Heffernan’s “image streaming” paintings show that intelligent, relevant and critically aware iconography is alive and well despite the fact that iconography, sadly, has long been a bête noire of postmodern semiotics. Her very personal, even grand paintings deliver Bonnardian multitudes of color and objects while they also recall Renaissance, Mannerist, and Baroque [...]



Summer Wheat: Deferral of a Vanguard

Summer Wheat: Deferral of a Vanguard

By Stephen Knudsen
Through analysis of Summer Wheat‘s painting and installations I will argue for the relevance of a refreshed figural expressionism that has both postmodern intertextuality and genuine selfhood. But let’s unpack some baggage first.
There’s been a black cloud over figural expressionist painters ever since Expressionism’s last heyday in the 1980s. [...]



Nicole Eisenman: The Relevance of 21st-Century Expressionism

Nicole Eisenman: The Relevance of 21st-Century Expressionism

By Stephen Knudsen
Anyone following the long career of New Yorker Nicole Eisenman is familiar with the artist’s sociological paintings cast with farmers, fools, fantasizers, clowns, coaches, zoomorphs, oglers, artists, bohemians, beer drinkers, sloggers, swimmers, gropers, tea-partiers, sailors, girls, superheroes, birds, friends, mothers, monkeys, asses, nudes, fantasizers, cats, friends, paranormals, fanatics and stripped-bare maidens. [...]



PhD in Philosophy for Artists: A Conversation with George Smith

PhD in Philosophy for Artists: A Conversation with George Smith

George Smith has long been a leader and innovator in North American education.  Dr. Smith is the founder and president of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA). Founded in 2007, IDSVA is the first and only school in the world to offer a PhD in philosophy for visual artists, [...]



The Acoustic Terrain of a Sound Artist: An Interview with Brandon LaBelle

The Acoustic Terrain of a Sound Artist: An Interview with Brandon LaBelle

Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer living in Berlin. His work explores questions of social life and agency, using sound, performance, text and sited constructions. He also develops platforms for publishing and collaboration through Errant Bodies Press. His recent work has been presented at the Whitney Museum in New York (2012), Image [...]