B. 1961, SANDUSKY, OHIO Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1961. At an early age, she discovered the work of photographer Lewis Hine, who documented the plight of child laborers at the turn of the 20th century. Inspired by Hine’s photographs, she requested a camera for her ninth birthday, and was given a…
Michael Andrew Law meets Zhang Xiaogang 張曉剛
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Zhang Xiaogang 張曉剛 was born in 1958 in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in southern China. When the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, Zhang’s parents were forced to give up their government posts, leave Zhang and his three brothers behind, and go…
Michael Andrew Law Meet Mark Bradford 馬克·布拉德福特
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Michael Andrew Law Meet Mark Bradford ( 馬克·布拉德福特 ) Fabricating his signature mixed-media collages with ephemera such as segments of billboards, flyers, and graffitied stencils, American artist Mark Bradford’s works marry his interests in modernist abstraction with the urban community from which he…
Michael Andrew Law meets Michaël Borremans
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Michaël Borremans (born in 1963) is a Belgian painter and filmmaker who lives and works in Ghent. His painting technique draws on 18th-century art as well as the works of Édouard Manet and Degas. The artist also cites the Spanish court painter…
Michael Andrew Law meets with Painter Magnus Plessen
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Magnus Plessen is best known for a painting style that combines additive and subtractive techniques, employing both brush and spatula. The impetus of each work often begins with a photograph, which Plessen categorically believes imprisons its subject in time and space. His…
Alex Prager and Michael Andrew Law
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Alex Prager (American, born 1979), a self-taught photographer, takes her cues from pulp fiction, the cinematic conventions of movie directors such as Douglas Sirk and Alfred Hitchcock, and fashion photography. Resembling movie stills, her unnerving photographs—crisp, boldly colored, shot from unexpected angles, and…
Michael Andrew Law and Lu Song 吕松
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Lu Song 吕松 is an exciting Beijing-based emerging artist (born 1982) who previously studied in London, UK. Recently, Lu was identified as one of the ’50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectable Artists’ by ‘ART+AUCTION’ Magazine (June 2013). Since March 2013, Lu has…
Michael Andrew Law meet with Christian Marclay 克里斯蒂安·馬克雷
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Christian Ernest Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality. Marclay’s work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments…
Michael Andrew Law meet with Carsten Höller
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Carsten Höller (born December 1961) is a German artist. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Today, he also shares a house in Ghana with colleague Marcel Odenbach. Carsten Höller applies his training as a scientist to his work as an artist,…
