Todd Mattei – Highly Reactive Introspection

Todd Mattei's means for circumventing sonic and visual strategies during a period of life in transition reminds of the sweeping force we each encounter as creatives during fractured unpredictable moments. There is a clear sensitivity to his practice. This can be seen in the diverse array of art/music collaborations ...
November 2, 2019
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Yves Klein – An Analysis of Two Artworks

Yves Klein was a French artist, born in 1928 and came to an early death at the age of 34 in 1962. He was a member of the French artistic movement known as Nouveau réalisme. Nouveau réalisme was an art movement founded in 1960 by Pierre Restany. The movement ...
April 11, 2019
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Jill Flanagan – Rage, Fear & Despair

Channelling, then transforming heavy societal demons by way of an aggressive and spontaneous art and music practice, Jill Flanagan creates those uncomfortable and unique works that require the audience to experience opprobrious time-based nether regions. Recently, The COMP Magazine visited Flanagan's west Pilsen studio to discuss growing up in ...
July 14, 2016
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Corey Gearhart – The Consummate Collaborator

Corey Gearhart left Chicago almost a decade ago. During the early 2000's, Gearhart built a prominent reputation in the city's art community for producing cerebral and evocative performances with a raw physicality. The COMP Magazine recently caught up with Gearhart to chat about his move to Michigan, his collaborative ...
August 19, 2015
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Alberto Aguilar – Family Formations

Working in areas often associated with domesticity and family are frequently looked down upon in the fine arts. There is often excessive sentimentality; precious baby pictures and those secretive images best locked away in a chest hidden at the back of a remote closet in the basement. However, this ...
December 28, 2014
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