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Critique Collective is your source for information and interviews about emerging and established contemporary artists.

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Read today's interview with painter Tom Melsen whose figures often dissolve into a haze of abstraction and a sense of enigmatic unease about his subjects.

"I like to travel, and when I do, I always carry a small notebook around with me. I’m often scribbling down new ideas for a painting. I’m always exploring different things. I do not want to repeat myself. Over the years, I’ve written so many things down that there is still so much I have yet to paint."

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Sharon Holck’s long-exposure film photographs are exposed with various alcoholic beverages, bringing the image into a confused slur of representation where objects are ephemeral blurs and figures are hazy icons. In Holck’s photographs, the medium reflects her subject matter in a direct, material way. See her full interview published on Critique Collective.

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Ivan Jenson Blends Painting and Poetry

Ivan Jenson is a pop art painter and contemporary poet whose artwork was featured in Art in America, Art News, and Interview Magazine while selling at auction at Christie's. Jenson was commissioned...

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Olivia Boi's Intuitive Abstract Paintings

Olivia Boi is an artist whose work hinges on the emotional abstraction of the human form. Boi has exhibited in The Last Brucennial and multiple exhibitions in Sideshow Gallery as well as a wide var...

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David DiLillo's Documentary Investigation of Nick Drake's Hometown

David DiLillo's multimedia artwork has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Calumet Photographic, Anthology Film Archives, Museum of the City of New York, State of the A...

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ADAM SZYMCZYK WIR WOLLEN NICHT ZUR DOCUMENTA 14

A protest broke out surrounding the dominance of Documenta, a prominent art exhibition that takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. Adam Szymczyk has been selected to be the artistic direc...

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Sharon Holck's Experimental Alcohol Photography Process

Sharon Holck is a photographer from Hawaii who is currently working in New York City in pursuit of a BFA at Pratt Institute. Her current body of work deals with photographing bars using long exposu...

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Evoking Suburbia: Corey Dunlap

Corey Dunlap is an artist working in mediums of installation and sculpture. He received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through Tufts University in 2013 and attended the ...