Upon first glance, there is a cer­tain level of banal­ity to Ryan Stew­art Nault’s work. With the muted col­ors and sparse com­po­si­tions, it is worth look­ing a lit­tle longer to con­tem­plate the still lifes he’s painted. The objects place­ment seem extremely delib­er­ate, and res­onate as some­thing that can exist as both a paint­ing and site-specific ...

When I received Vice Magazine’s 2010 Photo Issue, the first word that came to mind was vis­ceral. The cover itself is a photo of rot­ting fruit, a ref­er­ence to Dutch still life paint­ing from the 15th and 16th cen­turies. Not a small printed pub­li­ca­tion, the fruit is enlarged with tex­ture. And, thumb­ing through the rest ...