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Samara Scott Lonely Planet II, 2015 Stainless steel, water, mixed media, 350 x 285 x 6 cm. Courtesy of the artist and The Sunday Painter, London

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Keith Allyn Spencer ‘Share in Two Seconds if You Love Your Mom’ 28 November – 6 February 2016

Courtesy the artist and The Composing Rooms, Berlin.  

Excerpt from an interview with Keith Allyn Spencer:

Q: Artwork in my past programming, and much contemporary art production in general, there feels that there is a lack of touch. It being exported from a computer, printed, ordered as a ready made, or being produced by a production house etc. the physicality of it, and its relationship to the hand is detached. Your work by comparison feels the opposite, which is why I’ve found a specific interest in it. There is a great deal of “you” in the work. How do you relate to contemporary modes of production? What do you think about the “new”?

A: We know the hand is present, just not evident. When everything is glossy and refined, I too feel it detached and cold, lacking that human touch, but maybe that’s a false sense. Working heavily with digital technologies and/or outsourcing, if anything however, correlates directly to our time as a whole – walking and swiping screens, texting hellos, streaming content 24/7. Most of the choices we make are at the touch of a button anyway. I partake, too, and it’s not that being in front of the screen is new, but direct access is so much easier. That work is most of us.

Continue reading the interview at http://thecomposingrooms.com/

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Installation view: Cameron Gray, 'Birth of a Legend', Mike Weiss Gallery, NY

-courtesy the artist and Mike Weiss Gallery

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Korean painter Ahn Doojin, by paint or plastic- always epic. More info here: http://www.koreaneye.org/artist/ahn-doojin

-Image courtesy of the artist