Michael Robinson's blog

Come to the opening party for Sigils & Signs, a gallery show for artists using occult symbols from various traditions and times, each artist exploring what it means to be a magician in the modern age. (more)

[RS Gallery] • Anakin Koenig makes sculptures and installations using inflatable objects that are transient, ephemeral, and dependent on interaction. "We have access to unfathomable experiences," he says, "if we are creative." (more)

[RS Gallery] • Joel Gethin Lewis is a member of United Visual Artists, a collective that has collaborated on live performances with bands including Chemical Brothers and Massive Attack. Their responsive installations, using lights and software, have been presented by theVictoria Albert Museum and the Tate Modern. (more)

[RS Gallery] • Distilling the bright colors of South Florida and the complex patterns found in nature, Stark has mastered an obsessive practice as a sculptor and an equally imaginative deliberation as an animator and illustrator. (more)

Harlan Emil Gruber's sculptures at Burning Man have been an underground favorite over the last few years. Combining sound installation with geometric form, they have offered a beautifully multidimensional experience to visitors who often spend hours lounging on the sculpture's platform, bathing in the aural frequencies. (more)

[RS Gallery] • One of the most subversive choreographers of her generation, Ann Liv Young freely mixes signals from fairytales, and pop culture to explore systems of control and dominance. "I don't understand the term 'artist' completely," she says. "I make what I make because of my history and the things I've been through. If that is an 'artist' then so be it." (more)

[RS Gallery] • Using images derived from hallucinatory dream-states, Floria Sigismondi blends it all in a theatrical and poetic manner for both the commercial and art worlds. "In order to find ourselves," she says, "we must destroy ourselves." (more)

[RS Gallery] • Kate Raudenbush's massive Burning Man sculptures are reliably among the festival's most evocative and dramatic. "[People] would sit for hours up above the playa," she recalls, "reclining languorously in the air in the curve of the giant lotus petals lit by the amber glow of the mirrored seed-pod." (more)

[RS Gallery] • For 50 years, Terrence Conran has been at the forefront of British design. In 1964 he opened the first Habitat shop in London's Chelsea. His influence extends into architecture and interior design. In 2005 he was named the most influential restaurateur in the UK. "I try to design products that make people's lives easier." (more)

[RS Gallery] • Visionary artist Alex Grey discusses the personal transformations that have shaped his work, and the evolution of consciousness that is shaping the human spirit. "My intention," he says, "is to plant a seed of liberation in the mindstream of the viewer." (more)

[RS Gallery] • Pop Art meets tattoos meet wonderfully energized creatures in the sketches and paintings of Noah Hilsenrad, whose love for comics genius Jack "King" Kirby refuses to be denied. (more)

[RS Gallery] • The origin of my art was movement and dance. I was working with a staff lit with fire at the ends; dancing with it brought my first real experience of 'energy' and the patterns that energy movement takes—there's no denying the energy of a heavy length of fast moving flaming wood.

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[RS Gallery] • Peripheral Media Projects (PMP) is a collective of creators, designers, printers, musicians, street artists and activists committed to promoting awareness and social transformation through diverse modes of creativity and collaboration. Reality Sandwich finds out what drives their work and guides their hearts.

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[RS Gallery Feature] • Universus is a set of glyphs of a pyromantic nature, set-up to be used as a language for an inner dialogue. It has no phonetical equivalent, but does contain a numerical counterpart. It is meant as a meditation device for people that use alphabets in their day-to-day communications.  (more)

[RS Gallery Feature] • C. Taylor Cruthers is one of the most interesting lensmen currently capturing the heart and soul of rock 'n roll. His personal quote: "I'd rather be lucky than good."

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[RS Gallery Feature] • Daniel Safer's work with Witness Relocation has been called everything from "breathtaking" to "a jackboot in the face."  Starting in 2004, Witness Relocation engaged in a two-year residency at the renowned Patravadi Theater in Bangkok, Thailand, which radically altered their work. From the collision of different artistic and cultural perspectives and the intensive sharing of techniques and training methods, a unique, interdisciplinary vocabulary began to take shape, combining elements of Eastern and Western performance, dance, theater, and installation art. (more)

[RS Gallery Feature] • The Shen Wei Dance Arts paint scenes in your mind through wonderfully abstract movement. Each work develops an original physical vocabulary based on movement research. The choreography, at turns representational and abstract, incorporates Eastern and Western aesthetics and strong scenic elements to create a painterly, hybridic mise-en-scene. (more)