NEW YORK -- Artist Chaw Ei Thein spent a few days in a dank Myanmar jail for conducting a performance piece on the streets of Rangoon. She fled to the United States in 2009 and was awarded political asylum.
We met in her one-bedroom apartment in Queens, which doubles as a studio for her and her roommate, another Myanmar artist. It’s also...
For more than 30 years, Gretchen Feldman got up first thing in the morning, walked into her art studio and sat at a blank canvas. She was meticulous and inventive, sometimes using American Express and hotel key cards to apply her strokes.
Over a lifetime, she produced thousands of paintings, mostly robust watercolors, of rural landscapes...
