Walls by Miranda Donovan

Miranda Donovan builds up and breaks through walls for her third solo show

With her first show “Lost World of Innocence” (2008) selling out before she even arrived for the private view and several pieces from the second show, “The Home Unleashed” (2011), bought up by British art collector of the moment Frank Cohen, Miranda Donovan has established credibility as one of a stable of street artists represented by Lazarides Art. With her new body of work Donovan …

Mike Mellia’s American Dream

Barbie pink and psychiatric green in an exhibition on perfection and perversity

“I am interested in exploring a fine art approach to advertising, and an advertising approach to fine art,” says photographer Mike Mellia. His latest show, “The American Dream,” explores the poles of perfection and perversity in society at large. A series of portraits and still lifes, the images bear a likeness to Mellia’s other work in advertising. Glossy and glorified, the somber messaging falls even …

Barnaby Barford’s Seven Deadly Sins

The infamous Catholic doctrine takes a look in the mirror in the UK ceramicist's latest show

by Sabine Zetteler Never one to shy away from making a bold statement, ceramics artist Barnaby Barford‘s new exhibition “The Seven Deadly Sins”—currently showing at London’s David Gill Gallery—addresses biblical maladies in a tellingly ironic form of ornate mirrors. In interpreting the Catholic church’s long-condemned weaknesses and literally reflecting each one back to the viewer—in frames of deceptively sweet flowers and vibrant colors—Barford examines the …