For Brazilian artist Thomas Szott, art begins with something deeply personal. His paintings, textiles, sculptures, and drawings emerge from memories, emotions, relationships, and the quiet process of understanding how those experiences shape a life. Yet while his work originates from autobiography, Szott is less interested in documenting events than transforming them into symbols, atmospheres, and […]
There’s a moment in talking to Noel W. Anderson where everything shifts from art as object to art as something closer to confession. Not performance, not presentation, but release. For him, making work isn’t about building toward a career milestone or chasing validation. It’s about leaving something behind so it doesn’t follow you. Something you
There is a moment early on where Sam Brandon admits something that feels both fragile and absolute. He says it feels like he has put all his eggs in one basket, pursuing art as the only thing he is interested in at this point in his life. What follows is not hesitation but a kind
Björn Heyn does not describe his studio as a workplace. He calls it a playground. For him, that distinction matters. Being an artist, he explains, means holding on to a particular state of mind that can easily disappear in adulthood. Bills arrive, emails pile up, the mailbox fills with responsibilities that feel far removed from
From the beginning, Eva Dixon’s relationship to making things was tied to the rhythms of labor and construction. She grew up watching their dad build the houses they lived in, convinced as a child that they were helping just as much as he was. The garage became their first studio, a place where she felt
Yael Dresdner speaks with the same focus that appears in her work. When she describes painting, it isn’t with grand gestures or lofty words but with a simple truth: “It’s a necessity. Almost like eating and sleeping.” From Israel to the United States, from graphic design to painting her path has always circled back to
Meeting Zuriel Waters, you notice first his peace. An understanding of who he is and his works within the world. That same quiet focus runs through his art. Waters works across fabric sculpture, building forms that seem simple at first but reveal layers of rhythm, balance, and curiosity the longer you stay with them. Waters
