All posts by Emerald Arguelles

In Conversation With: Stephan Jahanshahi

Stephan Jahanshahi is an Iranian-American artist based in Los Angeles.  A graduate of the School of Visual Arts Photo, Video and Related Media MFA program, his work explores how community,…

In Conversation With: Chris Behroozian

Emerald Arguelles: Can you discuss your introduction to photography?  Chris Behroozian: I feel like I got into photography more as an adult, my first significant introduction was taking a black…

In Conversation With: Stephen Starkman

Stephen Starkman is a photographer from Toronto, Canada. Starkman’s work has been published internationally and he has contributed to group shows with the likes of John Paul Caponigro, Joyce Tennyson,…

In Conversation With: Brett Foraker

Brett Foraker is a LA-based photographer whose abstract photography aims to blur the lines between reality and what we see on our digital screens. With an impressive background working in advertising…

In Conversation With: Feldsott

Bay Area artist Feldsott, one of the youngest artists to ever exhibit at SFMOMA in 1975, disappeared from the art world after becoming disillusioned with its corporate demands. After getting…

In Conversation With: Brad Kahlhamer

Multimedia artist Brad Kahlhamer explores his multicultural identities in the new solo exhibition 11:59 to Tucson at the Tucson Museum of Art.  Kahlhamer, born to Indigenous parents and adopted by a…

In Conversation With: Bockhaus

Bockhaus is a semi-anonymous artist based out of NYC, whose signature style and immersive exhibitions ask big questions about the US, its citizens, and its systemic problems. Using a persona and obscuring…

In Conversation With: Dave Krugman

Dave Krugman, who’s best known for his neo-noir, stylized photography of urban landscapes around the world that has propelled him to become a leading voice in the NFT space.Krugman—one of…

In Conversation With: John Joseph Hanright

John Joseph Hanright is a Boston-based multimedia artist who creates collage paintings that both revel in and unpack the allure of nostalgia.  Hanright sources vintage materials throughout multiple eras of…

In Conversation With: Gretchen Andrew

Gretchen Andrew is an LA-based artist who, three years after hacking Frieze Los Angeles, has taken over the internet and art world with her unique and provocative hacktivism.  Primarily known for her…

In Conversation: with Olivier Mosset

OLIVIER MOSSET, an ongoing exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art, examines the renowned artist’s role in abstract painting and why he wants you to focus on the art and…

In Conversation With: Mark Enstone

Mark Enstone is a British painter who uses his prior career in fashion photography as a backdrop for paintings exploring intimacy, observation, and artistic authorship.  Just as Enstone reappropriates the scenes of…

In Conversation with: Joey Feldman

Feldman is a LA-based artist with a very dedicated fanbase. After a variety of jobs, including as a display artist at Tower Records and an illustrator designing materials for bands like…

Emily Larsen

Emily Larsen’s work is heavily influenced by her experience as a woman, as a mother, patriarchal gender imbalances, and the absurdity of using a small minority of men as the…

what we’ve found: between the threshold, beauty & resistance – the results.

Lauren Grabelle (@laurengrabelle) Ci Demi (@ci_demi) Macayli Hausmann (@macayli) Renske Diks (@reskedix) Renske Diks (@renskedix) Sana Ginwalla (@sana.ononas) Julie Fowells(@jfowells) Ci Demi (@ci_demi) Lauren Grabelle (@laurengrabelle) Macayli Hausmann (@macayli) Jason…

Christina Leslie

Christina Leslie is an artist based in Toronto, On, CA. Leslie earned her BFA in 2006 at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto. In June 2022,…

Michiko Chiyoda

Michiko Chiyoda majored in graphic design at the university and learned photography at the same time. After graduating, she got a job as a designer at an advertising agency, and…

Nikki Greene

Nikki Greene is a visual artist based out of San Francisco. Her primary concentration is in traditional photography practices using analog film cameras. Her documentary and conceptual photo-based work is…

In Conversation with: Castro Frank

Raised in California surrounded by what he describes as “gang life, dealing, and death,” Castro pursued photography as a creative outlet as he actively worked to overcome the truffles of…

Leonardo Magrelli

Born in Rome in 1989, holds a ba in Design and Architecture. After an initial experience as a graphic designer, he soon after began focusing on his photography. In the…

Cristian Pietrapiana

Originally from Buenos Aires, Cristian Pietrapiana lives and works in New York City. His work explores the vulnerability of human nature and its environments. In the last 4 years he…

Pratya Jankong

Seven years ago, Pratya Jankong moved to New York to pursue a MFA in Photography. He still does not have a MFA in Photography, and he is no long sure…

In Conversation with David Gamble + Gregory Gremillion

When Time Magazine asked British-American artist David Gamble to photograph Stephen Hawking in 1988, no one could have predicted how instrumental the resulting photograph would be. Now, over 30 years later,…

Ragna Arndt-Maric

Ragna Arndt-Marić worked as a physician before she started studying photography. For her personally, it is human being itself which has priority in both fields. Therefore, individuals and their interpersonal…