For the art fair’s latest iteration, SPRING/BREAK Art Show has returned to its past. Rather than introducing a new theme this year, applicants were able to choose from the fair’s previous themes for their curatorial projects. While one could imagine that such a setup might result in a rehash of past fairs, this year’s SPRING/BREAK is anything but ossified. Alongside many familiar faces are projects by artists and curators making their SPRING/BREAK debuts.
Seungjin Lee is an artist and performer who makes work based around a concept that he calls DigiAna: art that embraces both digital and analog processes. Roman Kalinovski, senior editor of Arcade Project, sat down with Lee to discuss the nature and origins of his DigiAna concept and how his artwork expresses this vision of digital and analog synthesis.
Natsuki Takauji and Haskul Lee show us that diversity, through use of the phonetic alphabet, can unify all names, all cultures, all lives. As a result, we pronounce each name as it is meant to be pronounced, eliminating any doubt or intimidation when faced with diverse linguistic obstacles, such as differing writing systems.
Themes of the natural world infuse artworks on view throughout The Painting Center in two solo presentations by artists Lisa Petker Mintz and Seren Morey.
