Cool Hunting Video Presents: Leo Villareal

Chelsea studio of artist Leo Villareal, we see the technology behind his light sculptures

Our 65th video visits New York-based light sculptor Leo Villareal in his Chelsea studio a week before his third solo show in Manhattan inaugurates the new Gering & López gallery. Leo walks us through his latest three sculptures that he’s exhibiting, including “Hive,” an interactive piece, “Field,” which is a massive sunset-like work of shifting colors and a piece like “Origin” based on Newtonian physics. …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Jason Young

Jason uses highly toxic resins and metal surfaces to make his "nipple paintings"

Masculine and feminine. Ordered yet random. Intentional with elements of chance. Flat while also three-dimensional. These are some of the paradoxes of Vancouver born, LA and Paris schooled and NYC-based artist Jason Young‘s work. Jason is a painter, sculptor, installation artist and recently a film maker. In this episode of Cool Hunting Video we travel to his studio in Hoboken, NJ to see the labor …

James T. Williamson: It’s Hard Work

The latest sculpture by Brooklyn artist James T. Williamson, titled "It's Hard Work," is a spoof on the traditional plaster presidential bust. What began in 2001 as a study to better understand Bush's face, the all-to-familiar squinting visage comes in a military green, slate blue, red and tan. Williamson says, "I had been creating two dimensional Bush protraits and caricatures and was frustrated by his …