LORELLA PALENI / INTERVIEW

I come from a small town in the north of Italy called Casazza, a place surrounded by mountains and with some wonderful lakes nearby. At 19 years old I left home to start my artistic studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, where I lived until the end of 2010 when I left Venice to come in New York where I’m living right now. I don’t really know where I’m going to, my plans are made month by month and the only thing I can say for sure is that wherever I’ll be, I’ll be painting for sure.

CARA THAYER & LOUIE VAN PATTEN / INTERVIEW

Cara Thayer & Louie Van Patten are collaborative artists that work out of Bend, Oregon.  A great deal of their work uses the human form as architectural, fleshy armatures for paint. These edifices of flesh and physicality are as much about the pseudobiographical qualities of the paint as they are about the representative effects of the paint. We see canvas as an analogue for skin and paint as viscera and we experiment with the conventional hierarchy of these materials, by allowing the painted flesh to resemble the painted canvas.

AVA CELIK / INTERVIEW

My little lifestory began in Berlin Charlottenburg, where I am still living. I always had the feeling that Berlin is too small for me, so last year I eventually moved to Istanbul for six months. I would love to tour the world, but it's not that easy. A few weeks ago I heard a beautiful phrase, which I will hopefully take to heart: „What would you attempt to do if you knew you can not fail?“

THE WEIRD / APRIL 2012

The WEIRD x Neo Collective. We have a sugar deal with the fantastic WEIRD Crew and feature for you every month the highlights of the WEIRD Crew roadtrip all around the globe. Our monthly posts are the output of the last month and the guys and girls are really damn busy, so we decide to give them an own catergory on the Neo Collective to have a great archive later. word!!!

GREG GOSSEL / PORTFOLIO

Greg Gossel was born in 1982 in western Wisconsin. With a background in design, his work is an expressive interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures. Gossel's multi-layered work illustrates a visual history of change and process throughout each piece. He has exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Copenhagen, Milan, and London; and in 2009 he was invited to create a large scale mural on the façade of Miami’s Aqua Art Fair. His commercial clients include Burton Snowboards, Stussy, GNU Snowboards, and Interscope Records while his work has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine, Artslant, Artful Living, and ROJO. Greg currently resides in Minneapolis, MN.