About

Art Spiel is an arts and culture journal founded by Etty Yaniv in 2018. Its early focus was on artists and art exhibitions in New York City, highlighting primarily female artists at various stages of their careers, as well as artist-run, smaller, and non-profit art venues. Since then Art Spiel has become broadly international in scope, from its featured articles to its contributing writers, and its coverage of art and culture has expanded accordingly to include reviews, interviews, profiles, and studio visits encompassing a full range of arts media, expressions, exhibitions, and discourses. 

Art Spiel welcomes submission proposals regarding various aspects of visual art and related creative fields and disciplines that cycle into and inform culture at large. For details and submission guidelines, contact Etty Yaniv at etty@artspiel.org

Anna Shukeylo Anna Shukeylo is an artist, writer, educator, and curator working and living in the New York Metropolitan area. She has written for Artcritical, Painters on Painting, and ArtSpiel. Her paintings have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Kean University, NJ, Manchester University, IN, and in group shows at Auxier/Kline, Equity Gallery, Stay Home Gallery, among others. @annashukeylo

Yasmeen Abdallah Yasmeen Abdallah examines history, contemporary culture, materiality, reuse, memory, and space.  She has been a visiting artist at institutions including Columbia University Teaching College, Children’s Museum of NYC; El Barrio Artspace; Fairleigh Dickinson; Parsons; Pratt Institute; Residency Unlimited; Sarah Lawrence; and University of Massachusetts. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Anthropology and Studio Art with honors, with a Minor in Women’s & Gender Studies from University of Massachusetts; and received an MFA in Fine Arts, with distinction, from Pratt Institute. Exhibitions include Art in Odd Places; the Boiler; Bronx Art Space; Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center; Cornell University; Ed Varie; Elizabeth Foundation; Nars Foundation; Open Source; Pratt Institute; PS122 Gallery; Spring Break; University of Massachusetts;  and Westbeth. Publications include Anthropology of Consciousness;; Bust Magazine; Emergency Index; Hyperallergic; Papergirl Brooklyn; Free City Radio; Radio Alhara; Tussle Magazine and Transborder Art. Her work is in public, private, and traveling collections in the U.S. and abroad.  Instagram: @86cherrycherry

Claire Haik Claire Haik is an artist and educator living in Philadelphia. Her work focuses on natural imagery and examines the hidden processes beneath the visual exterior of nature. You can see her work and learn more about her here.

Andrew Fish Andrew Fish is a Boston-based artist and educator. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and received his MFA from Goddard College in VT. His work has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad. Fish teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA. @Andrew_Fish_Studio  

Saul Ostrow
Saul Ostrow is an independent curator and critic. Since 1985, he has organized over 80 exhibitions in the US and abroad. His writings have appeared in art magazines, journals, catalogues, and books in the USA and Europe. In 2010, he founded along with David Goodman and Edouard Prulehiere, the not-for-profit Critical Practices Inc. as a platform for critical conversation and cultural practices. His book Formal Matters (selected and revised) published by Elective Affinities will be launched Fall, 2022. He served as Art Editor at Bomb Magazine, Co-Editor of Lusitania Press (1996-2004) and as Editor of the book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture (1996-2006) published by Routledge, London.

Hovey Brock
Hovey Brock is a writer, art critic, and painter who divides his time between Claryville, NY and Brooklyn, NY. His Crazy River series has been in the works since 2017. He is a frequent contributor to The Brooklyn Rail.

Amy Talluto
Amy Talluto is a mixed-media artist working in painting, sculpture and collage who lives in Upstate NY and hosts a podcast called “Pep Talks for Artists.” This written piece can be listened to as an audio essay in podcast form, as well as many others on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere you get your podcasts. Amy Talluto’s monthly column “Whisperings from the Wormhole” will bring you artist-to-artist pep talks with topics ranging from self-doubt to artists who make work in their kitchens.

Riad Mia
Riad Miah was born in Trinidad and Tobago and is an artist who lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited at the LMAK Gallery, Sperone Westwater, Wave Hill- Sunroon Project, Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, White Box Gallery, deluxe projects, Rooster Contemporary Art, Simon Gallery, Lesley Heller Workshop, and more. He has participated in the Vermont Studio Center, Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, HISK, Belgium.  He’s received fellowships and awards with New York Foundation for the Arts in painting and Germination Europe and has also been nominated for the following: Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, Rema Hort-Mann Award, and the Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting. He has taught at Pratt, New York Arts Program, Parsons School of Design, and Montclair State University. He is a contributing author to Two Coats of Paint, Art Savvy, and Vasari 21. Riad Miah holds an M.F.A from Ohio State University and a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts.

Tansy Xiao
Tansy Xiao is an independent curator, artist, writer and poetry translator who focuses on the multicultural and cross-disciplinary practice of art and literature in a global context. Having lived and traveled in more than fifty countries and received her art education in hundreds of museums worldwide, Xiao founded Raincoat Society in the hope of giving the artists with multiple cultural backgrounds a voice outside the mainstream art market.

Ágnes Berecz Ágnes Berecz is a New-York-based writer and art historian. In 2019, she published the book, 100 Years, 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art (Prestel), a singular and decidedly non-comprehensive overview of artists and their works across continents and media from the aftermath of World War I to the end of the 2010s. The New York correspondent of the Hungarian art monthly, Műértő, and she regularly publishes reviews and feature articles on global contemporary art both in Europe and the United States. Her writings appeared, among others, in Art Journal, Art in America, Artmargins and the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin as well as in many European and US exhibition catalogues. Berecz received her PhD at Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and teaches at the History of Art & Design Department of Pratt Institute.

Anne Whiting Anne Whiting is an award-winning writer, fashion designer, and artist whose work explores the contradictions in the making of vibrant art and design with the waste that such making generates. Her favorite artists investigate the oppositions of the generous and colorful to the toxic and drab of consumer culture. She has worked with the NYC Dept. of Sanitation on waste-awareness and waste-reduction initiatives such as ReFashion Week NYC, and manages a platform run by college and high school students about sustainable fashion called An Inconvenient Wardrobe. She sits on the Junior Board of Free Arts NYC. She holds degrees in this subject matter from Parsons School of Design and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Eliana Blechman Eliana Blechman is a curator and arts worker based in New York. She is the Director of Curatorial Affairs and Partnerships at Dieu Donné, the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to serving established and emerging artists through the collaborative creation of contemporary art using the process of hand papermaking. Previously, Eliana was the inaugural Archive & Collection Fellow at Dieu Donné. She has also held positions as Associate Curator at Time Equities Inc. Art-in-Buildings; Curatorial Associate at AC Institute; and as Project Coordinator at CITYarts, Inc.. Eliana received her MA in Art History from Hunter College, NY. She also holds an Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies from Hunter College, and received her BA as a double major in Art History and History from New York University.

Sophia Ma Sophia Ma is a curator and writer. She researched for architectural historian Victoria Newhouse on her most recent book, Parks of the Twentieth Century: Reinvented Landscapes, Reclaimed Territories, from its inception in 2016 to its publication with Rizzoli New York, September 2021. Ma curated for SPRING/BREAK Art Show New York 2020 and worked on Arshile Gorky’s catalogue raisonné for the artist’s foundation. She also worked in development, programming, and operations for the Museum of Chinese in America. In the Fall of 2020, Ma completed her master’s in art history and curatorial studies from Hunter College, CUNY, with a thesis on the relationship between the work and spiritual practices of the abstract painter Bernice Lee Bing (1936-1998). Currently, Ma writes for multiple online art publications, including The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Art Spiel, Arte Fuse, and White Hot Magazine. 

Susan Hoffman Fishman  Susan Hoffman Fishman is a painter, eco-artist and arts writer who has exhibited widely throughout the United States. Since 2011, her practice has focused on water in the context of climate change. Her recent work recasts ancient myths – in which water plays a pivotal role – into visual narratives that reflect upon contemporary society. For the past five years, Fishman has written a monthly column, called “Imagining Water,” for the international blog, Artists and Climate Change, which highlights artists of all disciplines around the world who are working on global water issues and climate change.

Xuezhu Jenny Wang Xuezhu Jenny Wang is a Chinese writer and translator specializing in postwar and contemporary visual culture and design. Currently, she is working on a research project that focuses on mid-century interior design and mechanization. Wang has previously served as copy editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator, editor of the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of Art History, and producer of The Conversation Art Podcast. Her art criticism has been published in ArteFuse, Art Spiel, and Cultbytes. She has held project-based positions at Barro, Aicon Gallery, and Cai Studio and is pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in History and Theory of Architecture at Columbia University.

Jennifer McGregor Jennifer McGregor is an arts planner and curator who collaborates with organizations to activate public spaces and create opportunities for artists to engage diverse audiences. Her place-based curating focuses on ecological, historical, and cultural concerns. Recent curatorial projects include Sari Carel: A More Perfect Circle with KODA, Rivers Flow/Artists Connect at the Hudson River Museum, Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens at Stand4 Gallery and Community Center, Brooklyn and upcoming exhibitions include En Foco’s Nueva Luz Study Center Commissioned Projects at WallWorks New York in the Bronx. Previously she conceived and implemented arts and cultural programming at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, and she was the first director of New York City’s Percent for Art Program in the 1980s.

Thomas Motley
Thomas Motley is a Texas painter and Professor Emeritus of Art and Art History at Dallas College. His drawings and paintings have been shown in many national exhibits including Center for Contemporary Art, Abilene, TX, and Wesleyan U, Ft. Worth, TX. Motley has lectured at the DMA, the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, TX, and the Meadows Museum, SMU. He has published several art museum catalogs, art periodical critiques, and reviews. He is a contributing author for Eutopia and has written articles about Mid-Century Modern Texas artists for DB/Zumbeispiel. Motley has received Fulbright Grants to Belgium, the Netherlands, and the UK and was Chair of the North Texas Fulbright Teacher Exchange Peer Review Committee for many years.

Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Anne Sherwood Pundyk is an artist and writer based in Manhattan and Mattituck, NY. She is interested in creating an authentic expression through the manipulation of her materials, her writing and performances. She paints large-scale abstract paintings on stained, cropped and stitched unstretched canvas. She has recently shown at Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH; The Works Museum in Newark, OH; the Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY and the Brownstone Art Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Space Sisters Press published her artist’s book, The Garden, this year which has been acquired by several academic special collections including Denison University, Granville, OH; The New School for Social Research, New York, NY and the University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA. Her work has been reviewed in artcritical, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, ART21 Magazine, The Washington Post, The Suffolk Times and the Newark Advocate. @anne.sherwood.pundyk

Alicia Puig
Alicia Puig is a curator and arts writer currently based in San José, Costa Rica. She earned her MA in Art History from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and is a regular contributor for Create! Magazine, Pikchur Magazine, and Art She Says. Her second book, “The Complete Smartist Guide”, was recently published in the summer of 2020 and is currently available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand is a Guyanese/Swedish independent curator and researcher based in NYC. She is interested in feminism, decolonial theory, and social practice. She has held curatorial positions at the Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Solomon R. Guggenheim, and Bard Graduate Center. She holds dual Master’s Degrees in Art History from Stockholm University and Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from Bard Graduate Center. Anna Mikaela is co-editing Assuming Asymmetries: Conversations on Curating Public Art Projects of the 1980s and 1990s and Archeology of a Profession in Sweden: Curating Beyond the Mainstream both forthcoming with Sternberg Press. In addition, Anna Mikaela is the founding editor-in-chief of Cultbytes.

Sara Farrell Okamura
Sara Farrell Okamura is an artist, writer, and arts educator based in North Adams, Massachusetts.

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