Articles + Interviews

Marin’s studio practice is grounded in an exploration of materiality and identity. She interrogates the meaning of motherhood, bodily autonomy, domesticity, and femininity through complex multimedia artworks, printmaking, figurative drawing, and painting resulting in a distinctive visual language.

Miguel Ángel Payano Jr. (b. 1980, New York, New York; lives and works in the Bronx, New York. MFA Hunter College 2021, New York; MFA Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing 2008; BA Williams College 2003.) was born in an Afro-Caribbean family in New York and studied in New England before moving to China in his twenties, Payano has always had to navigate between and among several languages and cultures

MAESTRO is a hyper realistic, black-and-white artist based in Santa Barbara, California. His first solo exhibition, “LOADING” opened at the HOMME Gallery in Washington D.C. on April 3rd, 2025.

NISKY is a multidisciplinary artist who fuses painting, music, literature, and cinematic influences into a cohesive creative vision

Mark Frygell’s works depart from the history of painting, sub-cultural images and cartoons. He repeatedly manipulates and reworks gestures, references and materials, inspired by different methodologies of painting. His interest lies in concepts such as caricature, the grotesque and the comic.

Bhimanshu Pandel is a visual artist and researcher based in Rajasthan, India, whose practice explores ecological and cultural elements in the desert landscapes of the region.

Drawing from cinema and popular iconography, Pogossova creates imagined objects and spaces that exist in the space between reality and fiction. Her work explores how cultural references can authorize belief trigger interpretations, and habituated ways of seeing.

California-based Randy Jayne Rosenberg addresses timely content-driven themes in both her art practice and her curatorial work. As a curator, she has produced collections and numerous exhibitions for The World Bank; the United Nations; the Dalai Lama Foundation and the nonprofit, Art Works for Change.

Born in Costa Rica and based in Mexico City, Melissa Ríos works primarily in painting and drawing. Mining the fertile ground between figuration and abstraction, Ríos draws on feminist, literary, and surrealist understandings of reality and its representation.

Not all flowers smell sweet, and CJ Hendry’s flowers appeal to a different sense. Lovely to look at and soft to the touch, Hendry’s Flower Market features plush and brightly colored flowers made entirely of fabric.

Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is an artist, educator and designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Best known for her home spun and hand knitted ‘khadi’ sculptures using ‘kala cotton’ - an inherently organic cotton strain indigenous to India, her work is at an intersection of material memory, sustainability and intergenerational dialogue.

Kentucky-based artist Jeremy Booth boldly captures the essence of the Wild West with daring minimalism in his art. Focused primarily on iconic cowboys and Western landscapes, his work embodies the spirit of resilience and adventure inherent in the Wild West. His bold and minimal style captures the West in a cinematic, colorful, and surprising manner.

Brent Estabrook (b. 1985) is an American artist known for his large-scale, colorful oil paintings of stuffed animals. His artistic journey began by turning frustration over student debt into paintings of enlarged currencies, leading to a career breakthrough and has since evolved through realism, hyperrealism, abstract, and surrealism.

Secret Walls is revolutionizing the art world with its exhilarating live paint battles that captivate audiences and showcase the extraordinary talent of artists from around the globe. We had the pleasure to interview founder, Terry Guy, to hear about it's innovative "paint battles" it began in 2006, exciting brand partnershipships, and what's in store over it's next 20 years.

Montreal-based artist FVCKRENDER, aka Frédéric Duquette, pushes the boundaries of imagination and technology while blurring the lines between the physical and virtual worlds through his ambitious experiential art.

FOA’s Laura Day Webb in conversation with Classical African Art Dealer, Cole Harrell on his latest exhibition “FEMME” now on view through June 30th date at Harrell Fine Art in NYC