Arjan Martins is the 2018 PIPA Awardee. Martins began to develop his pictorial technique as a student at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage with a keen interest in the African diaspora and Afro-Atlantic migrations subject matter during Colonial Brazil. His paintings and drawings incorporate signs and codes excluded from history and retell the history …
Mikhailo Deyak is a young Ukrainian artist who works at the intersection of neo-expressionism and minimalism, who experiments with painting and materials (glass and metal), and masterfully applies all of these techniques together. Despite his passion for the fundamental and exact sciences, he largely relies on the subconscious, delivering works that are known for their …
Paula Dunlop is an artist, designer and maker based in Brisbane, Australia. She has a persistent interest in materiality and making; our apprehension of, and how we engage with, the material ‘stuff’ of the world. Dunlop’s work explores the physical and cultural locations of making, and the bearing of these locations on what we do …
Ethan Shoshan is an artist, activist, and computer repair technician. Over the years with various projects, Ethan has connected with alternative venues and communities, including Queer Fist, Visual AIDS, Democracy NOW!, MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Food Not Bombs, WRRQ Collective, Allied Productions Inc, it/EQ Collaborative, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Sylvia’s …
Practicing tattoo artist and designer Mateusz Sarzynski’s paintings are dark, occasionally political, and deeply ironic. Mostly self-taught, Mateusz uses oil paint and acrylic spray paint as his medium to address situations from everyday life, current events or video games, the internet, television, and tabloid press, depicting violent reflections on capitalism and today’s media. He paints …
Meggy Rustamova was initially educated in Theatre and Performance in Antwerp, Brussels, and Berlin. While never referring explicitly to her origins, themes such as language, identity, and displacement are central to Meggy Rustamova’s work. She approaches these subjects sometimes through performances, and at others using photos, sound installations or video. For her videos, Rustamova often starts collecting pictures that she …
Image: Courtesy of Tomás Cunha Ferreira Cuchifritos Gallery and Residency Unlimited are pleased to present their eighth annual collaboration, The Impossibility of Form, featuring new work from artists Tomás Cunha Ferreira (Portugal), Tzu Tung Lee (Taiwan), and Kairon Liu (Taiwan). Exploring a diversity of subjects—the status of the art object, political action, social inclusion—Ferreira, Lee and Liu …
Joanna Borkowska is an abstract painter who since 2008 has devoted herself completely to painting. The source of Borkowska’s inspiration is Nature, which she understands as everything that is, from the molecular to the cosmic, with all its forces and processes. Her practice explores her interest in the beginning and the end of the Universe, …
“My work combines various supports, in a cross-border and open circuit practice – they function as prototypes, which can take on various stages and states – as reading scores, notations, visual poems, emblems, patterns, paintings, murals, etc. To this extent, each work results in a condensed hybrid figure, whose reading is in constant transition between …
Seán Hannan is a Conceptual artist exploring different ways of visual storytelling within the history of art. In my practice, I use the abundant amount of conflicting information today’s advances in technology have brought us. Fascinated by the subliminal, the unseen and the secretive, I often find myself dwelling within the digital realms of political conspiracies, …
