By Julia Krolik March 24, 2017 Gail Wight is a new media artist based in California. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford. A SciArt pioneer, Wight integrates biology, neuroscience, technology, and other sciences into her art. In her work Copepodellia, she explores the worlds of copepods through […]

by Julia Krolik March 24, 2017 Gail Wight is a new media artist based in California. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford. A SciArt pioneer, Wight integrates biology, neuroscience, technology, and other sciences into her art. In her work Copepodelia, she explores the worlds of copepods through an […]

2017 ART AWARD WINNERS New York City, March 23, 2017 — The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the nine artists who will receive its 2017 awards in art. The awards will be presented in New York City in May at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial. The art prizes and purchases, totaling over $250,000, […]

Recycle, Reuse, Create. The Latest from Recology’s Artist in Residence Program BY ASHLEY VILLARREAL ON JAN 17, 2017  Ramekon O’Arwisters in a bathtub of dinnerware for “Smooth the Edges” Artists have been borrowing resources to help formulate their works before there were words to really describe ‘art’ as a concept. These days, the number of objects that are […]

Redefining Touch: A Conversation with James Fleming, Kelly Lovemonster, and boychild by Claudia La Rocco, boychild, Kelly Lovemonster + James Fleming The aftermath of boychild’s performance at the Touch On opening reception at the SOMArts Cultural Center. Photo by Kelly Wu. On the occasion of Touch On: Aesthetics in the Art, Politics and Ontology of Touch, a group exhibit at SOMArts, Open Space editor-in-chief Claudia La […]

Vivian Xiao November 30, 2016 Gail Wight is an American artist whose work combines art with biology, neurology and technology. Her work explores the impact of life sciences on the human being. She is a professor in Art Practice and has been teaching art at Stanford since 2003. She works primarily in experimental media, photography, […]

June 20, 2016 A Vermont-based printmaker transcends the limits of her medium, substituting felt for paper in multi-textured, mixed-media works inspired by the landscape of her native Australia. Text by Robert Kiener May – June 2016 As Sarah Amos shows off some of the finished and in-progress colorful abstract prints that fill her barn-like northern […]

By Ephraim Russell Posted on September 14, 2016   This conversation took place via email and was led by Philadelphia curator Angela McQuillan with New York based artist Laura Splan and San Francisco based artist Gail Wight at the time of their Exhibition, Raw Material, at Grizzly Grizzly, May 2016.     Angela: In the exhibition description the two of you are introduced as long-time […]