Andrew LaFarge Hamill describes himself as an artist and garden designer, but he is interested in what happens when they overlap, when sculpture begins to behave like a landscape, when a garden becomes a site for an artwork, or when a piece of discarded plastic becomes the starting point for an idea. His current practice
Felix Benton grew up surrounded by people who made things. His grandmother was a glass artist, his mother was a chef and painter, and his father designs furniture, including the chair sitting in his studio during our conversation. For a while, that creative environment had the opposite effect one might expect. Benton was determined not
Jackie Reeves grew up in Montreal in a family where making things was part of everyday life. Both of her parents were architects with seven children, art supplies were always within reach. Large sheets of paper covered the floor, her father drew and her mother built architectural models. Jackie learned by watching them, developing an
French visual artist and designer based near Basel, Stéphane Koyama-Meyer grew up surrounded by art, with parents who regularly took him to museums when he was young and a father who painted and taught him to draw. He remembers being exposed to the work of major twentieth century artists from an early age, seeing enormous
For Adèle Aproh, drawing began long before she knew it could become a career. Her first real memory of making art goes back to primary school, when a classmate showed her how to draw a parrot by connecting dots in a particular order. She remembers being amazed that something as simple as following a sequence
Félix Deschamps Mak is a French painter based in Paris, working in large scale figurative compositions that draw from an unusually wide net of sources: photographic archives, opera, cinema, literature, street observation, found objects. His paintings tend to gather soldiers, boxers, matadors, children, animals, and unnamed figures into the same ambiguous space, staged with the
Katya Quel is an artist and multidisciplinary creator, born and raised in Moscow, who now lives and works in Paris after roughly a decade based in Germany. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, she builds elaborate fictional worlds populated by trolls, elves, witches, castles, and imagined creatures, a body of work she describes, without much
Carlo D’Anselmi is a painter based in New York whose work builds believable colorful worlds on canvas, pictorial spaces with their own internal logic, where objects, figures, and symbols sit in relationships that are meant to surprise the viewer rather than settle into a single, closed meaning. He works primarily in oil painting, though largely
Valeria Vertii is a Ukrainian-born artist based in Paris who works across painting, drawing, metalwork, ceramics, and glass, moving so fluidly between mediums that she has trouble listing them all without leaving something out. She trained first as a painter and has spent the last several years pulling that foundation toward sculpture and installation, driven
Some artists search for inspiration in distant landscapes, history books, or moments of profound personal revelation. Leo Chesneau finds it in an A4 sheet of paper, a toner cartridge, a Post-it note, or the standardized dimensions of a hollow-core door. At first glance, these objects feel almost invisible. They belong to offices, classrooms, construction sites,
