The Next Frontier
Exploring the possibilities of everything from ice to software, these five young artists are headed for a brilliant future.
“In the art world, you don’t get to interact with everyday people as often as you would imagine.” -Tavares Strachan.
Tavares Strachan’s You Belong Here, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.
“I was hiding all of this offstage stuff, and I started thinking I could do it the other way.” -Lucas Blalock
Two Lettuces, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.
“I have a huge studio by the fjord. Sometimes, even when it’s cold, I go down to the water. When I got pregnant, my whole body wanted to go back to Norway. It was a force. And I haven’t complained one second.” -Ida Ekblad
Ekblad’s Kons, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise.
“Embarrassment and discomfort are a great place for a painting to exist.” -Sanya Kantarovsky
Wet Hands, 2015. Courtesy of the artist, Casey Kaplan, New York, and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles.
“All day long, as we use the phone and the Internet, we’re leaking information that is collected to create portraits of us.” -Josh Kline
Professionalism and Po-Po, both 2015 are elements from Kline’s installation Freedom, 2015. Photograph by Biel Parklee.
