INTERVIEWS

Steven Harrington is making his Frieze New York debut with a sunny slice of Los Angeles. Known for his psychedelic-pop aesthetic and his beloved character, Mello, few artists can pull off such chaotic yet composed illustrative acts.Staged at The Shed’s top-floor lounge, Harrington transforms the space into a lush technicolor environment where a moment of meditative play cuts through the clamor of Art Week, inviting viewers to slow down, linger in the now and, as the title suggests, stop to smell the flowers.For his cozy, living room-like immersive installation, Harrington teamed up with LG to bring his vibrant universe into motion on their ultra-thin OLED screens. At the heart of the display, Mello waves from blooming fields on a transparent TV turned digital canvas. Elsewhere, he can be s...

Chris Skylark’s photographic journey began as an internet kid from Atlanta. Like many others in the heyday of Tumblr, he bought a camera to document his own style and latest pick-ups, chasing aesthetic highs and sharing them with friends. Coming up in the city’s bustling music scene, friends became subjects, and subjects became stars, with Playboi Carti and Lil Yachty passing through Skylark’s frame before becoming household names. While their rise pulled him with, the artist found himself drifting toward something more experimental and raw — something more than simply documenting the moment.The pandemic marked a turning point in Skylark's creative journey. At the time, he was living and working with Metro Boomin, often venturing out to catch some visions in a restless pursuit of captures ...

Up a narrow stairwell in SoHo, past a black metal door and into a clean white loft, Ferg is doing something he hasn’t done in a long time: slowing down. The space is bare. No crew, no clutter, no chairs. Just two rooms. One for painting, one for music. It’s quiet, focused, built entirely for the work.We got the first look inside as he prepared CHOSEN, his debut solo exhibition. The title says a lot. There was no gallery hand-holding this one, no splashy art-world PR campaign. Though, Ferg worked with the expert curator Anne-Laure Lemaitre and Larry Warsh of No More Rulers to bring his vision to life, this presentation was something largely personal. It resulted in a body of work made by Darold Brown, not for the culture, not for approval, just for himself.That shift started with the cover ...

You’ll find a bit of everything at a Jon Rafman opening – the usual art suspects, fashion heads, music lovers, film connoisseurs and, more recently, the crypto crowd. It’s a group that reflects his own desire to go beyond art world esotericism and break into the broader cultural bloodstream.Rafman is one of the most revered voices of Post-Internet art. Born in Montreal and raised by its indie scene, he's best known for exploring the grotesque, absurd and strangely beautiful corners of digital life. For his latest solo exhibition, Proof of Concept, now at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles through May 3, the Canadian artist conjures an AI-assisted, hallucinatory hellscape, paying homage to the media cultures that shaped him.Anchoring the show is Main Stream Media Network (MSM), a fictional broadc...