Joris Van de Moortel, 31, has intrusive bluish-gray eyes. They are unsettling; despite the subdued kindness that surrounds them. Looking in to them one realizes Moortel doesn’t see the same boundaries most of us do, the boundaries that most of us construct our lives around. Moortel smashes, sometimes literally, the line between art and music. He is both musician and artist and the two feed off one another. Moortel makes mixed media pieces that often incorporate elements of his musical performances; a guitar he smashed on stage the night before, panels from a stage he played on. Sometimes the work comes after a performance; sometimes it’s made during. Read our interview with the artist here.
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What do you get when you combine Groucho Marx, vintage Superman comics and Russian geometric abstract artist Kazimir Malevich? - You get After Malevich: a new series of paintings by artist Robert Levine. Click here to read our interview with Levine before his solo show, which opens tonight at MAMA Gallery in Los Angeles. photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper