Works on (Toilet) Paper: The Irreverence of Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan may have, as he claims, retired from making art, but his cunning sense of the mischievous and macabre hasn't stopped haunting the public. Consider the new book Toilet Paper (Freedman/Damiani). a collection of surreal, unsettling images (like the one above) Cattelan and and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari created for their two-year-old magazine of the same name. Paired with similarly peculiar texts (among them Jonathan Swift's devilish satire "A Modest Proposal," which suggested that the Irish should eat their homeless children), the volume reads as one long, extraordinarily vivid dream.

Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari, Toilet Paper Magazine, Bi-Annual Issues

Spotlight: Irene Mamiye

“Photography is the only medium that captures reality as it .”

Irene Mamiye Art Gallery, 89 Spring Street,New York City

Irene Mamiye is a New York-based artist who incorporates various digital imaging techniques into her photography. Inspired by light, color and movement, she employs a precise and labor-intensive process to transcend what is expected of the photographic medium. The luminous images harness chance to transform their sources and involve viewers in journeys toward a personal discovery of significance. Irene's beautiful abstracts have been featured in major publications such as Vanity Fair, Elle,  and Architectural Digest, as well an interior design collection called Chroma

Labyrinth188B, 2013

Great Space- A Marriage of Art and Design

Jeffrey Rothstein, 50x75" Zion Mandala over the master bed

High in the tony hills of Trousdale over looking Los Angeles a client has created a big slice of paradise with the amazing design acumen of Studio William Hefner.

Friend and Artist Jeffrey Rothstein  photographic art is on display in a number of major public buildings in the US and Japan, and in private collections around the world.