Archive – Page 87 – Studio International

Zarah Hussain: ‘I don’t think something that’s spiritual precludes the use of technology’

Zarah Hussain (b1980, Cheshire, UK) places her work at “the intersection of science and spirituality”. She combines a lifelong fascination with – and extensive training in – hand-drawn Islamic geometry with the latest digital software to create hypnotic, looping animations…

Interview | Encinitas, California

Nicolás Herrera: Enchanted Nature – Deforestation and the Environment

Enchanted Nature: Deforestation and the Environment, on show in Beijing, is an exhibition of 61 drawings and 12 large-scale paintings by Latin-American artist Nicolás Herrera

Kelly Richardson: The Weather Makers

The barren, dystopian landscapes of Kelly Richardson’s audiovisual installations are hypnotically beautiful, recalling sci-fi and Romanticism, and issuing a subtle call to arms over the catastrophic effects of climate change

Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites

This wishy-washy exhibition is a lesson in tenuous connections

Yuri Pattison: context, collapse

In the first exhibition at mother’s tankstation project’s new London gallery, Yuri Pattison’s context, collapse examines the world in which the office is everywhere and work transcends life

Julie Montgarrett: ‘I have always gravitated to the seductive character and movement of cloth and thread’

Australian artist Julie Montgarrett uses her work to explore the continent’s problematic colonial past, employing textiles and stitching to tease out the selective histories and mythologies of settler narratives

David Hartt: In the forest

In his filmic and photographic portraits of architect Moshe Safdie’s abandoned 1968 housing project Habitat Puerto Rico, David Hartt explores the relationship between site, ideology and environment, at a poignant moment for a country currently struggling with environmental and economic…

Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys

Chaïm Soutine, who inspired many of the 20th century’s greatest painters, brought the strange and macabre to Paris’s most elegant haunts