Interview: Jen Stark

Math and psychedelia inspire "To The Power Of," a solo show at Martha Otero gallery

by Vivianne Lapointe If you missed the jam-packed opening of Jen Stark‘s stellar solo show at LA’s Martha Otero gallery earlier this fall, you’re in luck—”To The Power Of” has just been extended for another month. Born in Miami and now based in LA, Stark is a master of color and geometry. Having initially developed her craft with paper and razor blades because it was …

Redhead

Joe Claussell takes on The Machine in a limited edition box set handpainted by Misha Hollenbach

Two years ago English producer and DJ Matt Edwards added a new moniker to his list, giving Radio Slave and myriad other aliases a momentary rest to pursue a different direction. This time filing his experimental sounds under the name The Machine, the new project saw Edwards combine his music with other creative media, namely art and video. For his first output—a collage-like album called …

Joseph Cornell’s Manual of Marvels

The Philadelphia Museum of Art revives a lost American masterpiece

Classified as a Surrealist, American artist Joesph Cornell is best known not for his abilities as a painter or a sculptor but as a collector. Cornell took pleasure in the hunt and liked to spend his time scouring secondhand shops for books, faded photographs and other small treasures—which he then used to construct whimsical tableaus. While these collages of curiosities dominated the majority of Cornell’s …