Paul describes his artist practice as "a constant attempt to put the hypothetical broken vase back together again." See his works available on Testudo, as curated by Connor McNicholas.

Online Viewing Room: Paul Anagnostopoulos

Katita uses collage and pattern to build maximalist, multilayered surfaces that depict quotidian scenes through the filter of an overactive mind. View her work on Testudo, as curated by our team. 

Online Viewing Room: Katita Miller

Solo Exhibition: Judd Schiffman

Viewing Room

Susan Stainman's interdisciplinary practice centers on embodied moments of intimacy, connection, and interdependence. We caught up with Susan in her Brooklyn, NY studio to learn more about her work and creative practice.

The Possibility of Utopia in Tiny Moments: Susan Stainman’s Studio Spotlight

Combining installation, video and sculpture, Lili Chin's practice focuses on nature and architecture to explore rituals in time. Here's a first-hand look at her studio practice.

Editing & Arranging the Archive: Lili Chin’s Studio Spotlight

Combining installation, video and sculpture, Lili Chin's practice focuses on nature and architecture to explore rituals in time, bridging contemporary and ancient ideas that investigate themes of memory, duration, and spirituality. Here's a first-hand look at her studio practice.

Brit Krohmer is a Milwaukee-based interdisciplinary artist and educator. Read more about her process and motivations.

Studio Spotlight: Brit Krohmer

Paul Anagnostopoulos is an artist working in acrylic and oil painting. He aggregates various histories, beliefs, and symbols as a way to explore mythological desire and melancholy. We caught up with Paul in his Tribeca.

Manipulating Hyper Masculine Images: Paul Anagnostopoulos’s Studio Spotlight

We stopped by Cornell Creative Arts Center in Kingston, NY to visit Karen and learn more about her process and inspiration. See her practice, read her written interview, and explore her work available on Testudo.

Sculpting Clay To Address Sociopolitical Issues: Karen Jaimes’s Studio Spotlight

Claire Burkett is a fine artist born and raised in northwest Washington state. She is based in Brooklyn, New York and is working predominantly in acrylic painting. Here's a first-hand look at her studio practice and surrealist paintings.

Using Painting to Transcend Reality: Claire Burkett’s Studio Spotlight

Kit Zauhar interviews An Rong Xu, a Chinese American photographer who tackles both contemporary Chinese culture as well as Chinese American race relations, tensions, and advocacy.

Infinite Stories to Tell: An Interview with Photographer An Rong Xu

Daniel Sharp interviews Levani, a trans-disciplinary artist. This interview touches on Levani’s use of materials, reflections on New York’s recent nightlife history, and how growing up in Tbilisi impacted their work.

Archives, The Dance Floor, and Using Art to Rethink Binaries: An Interview with Levani

Testudo recently spent an afternoon with Lara Saget at her Gowanus studio and nearby Brooklyn Glass. Watch to see Lara and her collaborator Josh Raiffe create an artwork by pouring molten glass over a mold of Tuckahoe marble.

Encasing Materials in Molten Glass: Lara Saget’s Studio Spotlight

Annette An-Jen Liu interviews Yo-Yo Lin, an artist working with animation, dance, and performance. Lin explores the bodily experiences of living with chronic illness and establishes possibilities for self-knowledge through a collaborative practice.

Creation, Collaboration, & Resilience: Interview with Yo-Yo Lin

2022 Guggenheim awardee Christy Chan discusses her recent work, including Fainting Couch - a participatory art piece that investigates who is allowed to rest and privilege in American culture.

Who Gets to Rest? In Conversation with Christy Chan

Daniela Puliti creates Feminist mixed-media painting and installations. We caught up with Daniela in her New Jersey studio to chat about her evolving practice.

The Process Holds the Meaning: Daniela Puliti’s Studio Spotlight

In this interview, multidisciplinary artist Leah Dixon discusses her sculptures, the materials she chooses to use, and how reactions to her  work change in different locations. 

Healing Sculptures, Traveling Time: A Conversation with Leah Dixon

Take a deeper look into the artistic practice of J.C. Fontanive as we tour his studio in Ridgewood, NY. Learn more about his process, which employs a back-and-forth between 2D and 3D. 

The Artist as Space Explorer: Inside J.C. Fontanive’s Studio Spotlight

Nathaniel Oliver is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting. Using oil on canvas and wood panels, his vibrant—and often uncanny—works explore notions of “truth discovery” through magical realism. In this interview he discusses his recent Armory showcase, evolving practice, and creative process.

Exploring Magical Realism with Nathaniel Oliver

Paul Anagnostopoulos discusses how painting acts as grief work, finding celebration through myth, and honoring the maternal heritage of stories.

Paul Anagnostopoulos on Painting as Grief, Joy, and Everything in Between

Come with us to Philadelphia, where we visit the studio space of Jinsik Yoo and learn more about his journey to becoming an artist. See how he uses clay to visualize emotion and explore new questions.

Visualizing Emotions Through Clay: Jinsik Yoo’s Studio Spotlight 

Ron Moultrie Saunders is a photographic artist and landscape artist. He co-founded the Three Point Nine Art Collective is on the board of the Black [Space] Residency. In this interview, Saunders discusses his practice, inspiration from the plant world, and commitment to public art and education.

Photograms, Architecture, and Community: A Conversation with Ron Moultrie Saunders

Limitless Possibilities Within Boundaries: Otero Fuentes's Studio Spotlight

Otero Fuentes is a self-taught sculptor with a background in architecture and facade design. Using simple geometric forms and utilitarian materials like concrete, Otero’s work heightens the sense of the familiar. In this Studio Spotlight film, Otero discusses the balance between making and breaking in his practice, and a constant exploration of three-dimensional expression. 

British artist John Walter works across painting, print, VR, film, animation, performance, sculpture, NFTs, and eventually installation. Building on previous collaborative projects exploring and reframing the ‘crisis of representation’ in HIV, he is currently undertaking a year-long artist’s residency at UCSF.

Art Gone Viral: John Walter Uses Complex Virology as Vibrant Creative Fodder

Caroline Falby is a New York-based artist whose practice spans drawing, painting, and installation. Annabel Keenan spoke with Falby, discussing her journey as an artist and mother, her father’s passing, and the stigmatization of HIV/AIDS. 

Caroline Falby on the Realities of Being an Artist & Mother and Stigma of HIV/AIDS

Jamey Hart’s practice focuses on casting everyday experiences into the shadow of discrete objects. In our latest Testudo interview, Jamey discusses his influences, process, and constant exploration of object-making as an act of translation.

Objects, Language, Puddles, & Painting: An Interview with Jamey Hart

Somewhere Between Reality and Imagination: Anna Ortiz's Studio Spotlight

Kim Garcia's hybrid material practice combines sculpture, drawing, and painting to explore social dynamics and residual trauma from interpersonal relationships, community structures, and memory. In our latest Testudo interview, Kim discusses the role of fiction in her practice and current series, "she haunts," exploring folklore through inherited oral narratives.

She Has Her Mother’s Eyes: An Interview With Kim Garcia

Avery Z Nelson’s sensuous paintings are visual explorations of becoming trans, embracing a world where categories dissolve and firmly held distinctions are rapturously thrust into ambiguous territory. Avery and Helena discuss the deep impact of coming out as trans on their practice, the importance of the human connections they forged through raving, and the profound effect of Covid-related shutdowns. 

Self As Multitude: Avery Z Nelson paints the joy and complexity of gender fluidity 

Brooklyn based artist Julia Rooney’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, works on paper and installation that explore the tensions between analog and digital media. Amanda Millet-Sorsa and Rooney met in her studio; their conversation centered around the process and ideas behind her new work intended for the upcoming exhibition at Freight + Volume.

Pixels, QR Codes, and Square Paintings: In Conversation with Artist Julia Rooney

Poyen Wang is a NYC-based artist and filmmaker, born and raised in Taiwan. Working primarily with 3D computer graphics, his work explores personal and collective emotions, with a focus on the queer and immigrant experience. Ahead of his latest solo show, Endearing Insanity, at Essex Flowers, Poyen and Annette discuss his semi-autobiographical practice, influences, and his newest video work.

Poyen Wang on Filmmaking, World-Building, and Endearing Insanity

Courtney Puckett is a Hudson Valley-based artist working with found materials and textiles to create sculptures that explore the world around her. Taking on different "characters", Puckett's sculptures reflect people and occupations of everyday life, inviting the viewer to parse meaning in our societal roles. Upon joining Testudo's roster of artists, Puckett shared her experience of discovering fiber art by abandoning painting for the more playful, malleable material she found in textiles.

Courtney Puckett Creates a Field of Her Own

Carlos Rosales-Silva is an artist and educator who makes bold sculptures, paintings and installations that reflect on the vernacular culture of the American Southwest, where he grew up. Carlos and Helena talked about the deep and lasting impact of his El Paso upbringing, the joys and challenges of making a living as an artist in NYC, and the relationship between his commissioned projects and studio practice.

Carlos Rosales-Silva on Constraints & Community

Kelsey Tynik is an interdisciplinary sculptor who has exhibited in New York, Connecticut, Arkansas, Texas, and California. Her work investigates glee and sentimentality realized through material, technique, and play. Kate visited Kelsey in her Mansfield, Connecticut studio to learn more about her practice and explorations in fabric and wood.

Play & Purpose: Kelsey Tynik's Studio Spotlight

Painter Kevin Mosca describes his work as “slow horror.” Interweaving symbols, biblical references, and nods to the horror film genre, his paintings create narratives that bridge the gap between theology and pop culture. We recently visited Kevin in his Saratoga Springs, NY studio for a conversation on process, influences, and his cinematic approach to storytelling.

Painting Slow Horror: Kevin Mosca’s Studio Spotlight

Allan Rosenbaum is a studio artist and former Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. In this interview with Testudo’s cofounder, Allan Rosenbaum discusses the rewarding transition from figuration to abstraction, the joy of the hunt for fabric with diverse histories and geographies, and the fortitude to maintain a decades long studio practice.

Iterating to Make the Unexpected: A Conversation with Allan Rosenbaum

Giving New Life to Things Without Authorship: Courtney Puckett's Studio Spotlight

Judd Schiffman's Ceramic Narratives

Kan Seidel’s Twisted Americana

Kiah Celeste on Recycling, Re-Purposing, and Following Your Instincts

Nothing Without Desire: Annie Duncan’s Objects Can’t Live Without You

Indigenous Matriarchs, Art as Cultural Preservation, and Experiencing the Human Touch in Clay: An Interview with Artist Raven Halfmoon

Studio In Situ and Ecological Equilibrium: Interview with Artist Duo Alchemyverse

Art School for the Wild: An Interview with Sarah Grass, Artist and Founder of The Pack

Zoë Buckman’s Embroidered Scenes Pulse with Pain and Poignancy

Darryl DeAngelo Terrell Asks to be Loved as Both Soft and Strong

William Matheson on Spectrality, the Uncanny, and the Unseen

 Sacred Space and Ceremony: Chris Watts at Welancora Gallery in Brooklyn

What Lives in the Empty: An Interview with Trevor King

Excerpt from "Several Rooms of Flashing Lights (Randy)", Trevor King.

Hana Yilma Godine's 'A Brush in the Universe' Transcends Time and Place

Documenting the Experience of Black Cowboys: A Conversation with Charles Lee

A Car is a Moving Canvas: A Conversation Between Zoe Alameda and Kati Kirsch 

Sidney Mullis in Pittsburgh: Sculptural Forests & Resurrecting the Inner Child

“A Mutually Understood Conversation”: A Daughter on Finding Inspiration in her Mother’s Fearless Work

Artist Interviews

Kirby Voigtman and John Dennehy founded Testudo from a shared passion of collecting. As kids, the focus was nutcrackers and Simpsons memorabilia. But today, their art-filled Brooklyn apartment showcases a wide array of prints, paintings, sculpture, and more. Watch our interview for some highlights from their collection and a few reasons why they love living with art.

Collecting Art with John & Kirby

Our Journey from Collector to Founder

Marc Hajjar on the Thrill of Anticipation in Collecting

Shared Histories: Benny & Cristian on Following Your Instincts and Building a Collection

Living with Art

If you’re new to our site, we put together this guide to explain our mission, how we work to benefit collectors, and how our model is built to support artists. We also include links to some helpful videos that showcase our artists and team in action.

About Testudo

At Testudo, we believe resale royalties are paramount to the long term health of artists and that collectors are best served when they act as stewards and partners.

Why We Support Artist Resale Royalties

If you’re interested in learning more about contemporary art but don't know where to start, Testudo is here for you. We’re laying out the best experiences and resources to help you get started. 

Exploring the Contemporary Art World: Getting Started

How should you approach viewing an artwork? We offer guidance to expand your horizons and experience art in a deeper way. Explore Testudo's artists and original artworks.

Ways of Viewing Art

One of the most important aspects of engaging with art is supporting artists - both directly and indirectly. Learn more about how you can help artists continue to create.

How to Support Artists

Our best practices for understanding and identifying talent in an overwhelming art market.

Honing Your Eye for Talented Artists

While commonplace today, public murals created by and for local communities weren’t always so prominent. Explore the history of community mural movements in the US through the stories and artists in three cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Introduction to US Community Mural Movements

Kate Parvenski produces our Studio Spotlight video series, offering up a behind-the-scenes look at our artists’ work and their practices.  After a summer of visits, we asked Kate for some tips on connecting with artists in their studios.

Connecting with Artists

Given the diversity of artists and mediums, how is artwork priced? Read this guide to better understand the pricing framework used by galleries and the limitations of auction house data.

Understanding How Artwork is Priced

Explorations in Art Theory Part 1: Insights and Intrigues

Guides

Since its premiere in 1769, the Royal Academy of Art's Summer Exhibition has been an iconic fixture of the British art world. An ever-popular platform for the UK's emerging talent, it attracts record crowds and showcases the work of established artists alongside those of the public.

10 Standout Artists at the Royal Academy's Summer Show

Explore Skowhegan and MacDowell, two prestigious artist residency programs. Learn more about how these historic programs in New England operate and why artists compete to attend.

Residencies at Skowhegan & MacDowell are a Year Round Effort

Fall in California doesn’t necessarily bring sweater weather or changing leaves, but it does bring a swath of new museum and gallery exhibitions. Starting in SoCal, take a road trip up the coast with us and mark your calendars for a season of fantastic art. 

The 7 Must-See Exhibitions in California this Fall

The fall 2022 season in New York is particularly exciting with six photography exhibitions that highlight BIPOC, queer, female artists and curators.

6 Photography Exhibitions in NYC to See This Fall

The 59th Venice Biennale, titled The Milk of Dreams, closes on November 27. Here are seven standout participants in the exhibition and what's next for them.

Highlighting 7  Artists from the Venice Biennale

Highlighting several organizations under 10 years old with shows this fall that are remarkable for their talent, diversity, and range of subject covered.

6 Young NYC Galleries with Standout Fall Shows

The Lower East Side consistently hosts some of the most refreshing exhibitions by emerging and mid-career artists. We're highlighting downtown galleries embracing experimental shows and curatorial projects that offer some of the best opportunities to discover new talent.

Off the Beaten Path: 6 Shows to See in Downtown Manhattan

With several major art fairs, dozens of museum exhibitions, and countless special events, Miami Art Week is one of the biggest times of the year in the art industry. The sheer volume of activities can easily overwhelm, but these tips will help to navigate Art Week seamlessly.

Tips to Master Miami Art Week from Miami Beach to Your Own Home

Masterworks is an investment platform that offers fractional ownership of blue-chip artwork. As a former corporate credit analyst, co-founder Kirby Voigtman's review of a recently published offering suggests that the Masterworks model most benefits Masterworks, while doing little to benefit the artists or the ecosystem that ultimately drives value and cultural impact.

Caveat Emptor: The Fees & Structure of Masterworks Offerings

6 Emerging US Cities for Contemporary Art

Eyes on Iran is a public art installation featuring eight Iranian artists—Shirin Neshat, Mahvash Mostala, Sheida Soleimani, Aphrodite Désirée Navab, Z, Icy and Sot, Sepideh Mehraban, and Shirin Towfiq—to create site-specific works responding in solidarity to the ongoing protests in Iran.

Eyes on Iran: Art as a Conduit for Activism

While the holidays in New York are often associated with shopping and ice skating under the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, several galleries have engaging exhibitions on view that are well worth a visit. Whether you’re a New Yorker staying local or a tourist in town on vacation, these seven shows across the city will add a refreshing dash of culture to the holiday season. 

7 New York Shows to Ring in the New Year

Youth Empowerment, Black Spaces, and the Idea of Genius: An Interview with Curator Anya Wallace

Queer Pasts and Futures at The Leslie Lohman Museum of Art

Video’s Past and Future at MoMA

Innovative Curation in the Digital Age: In Conversation with Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle

Pride Reads from McNally Jackson: Testudo’s Art Book Recommendations

Between a Storefront and a Mini-Mall, Two Visions of Asian American Art 

Fire Island Pines at 70: Pictures Worth A Thousand Words

5 Museum Shows to See This Fall in New York City

5 Stand-Out Gallery Shows in New York City This September

Seen by Testudo: November Exhibitions in New York

How the Art World is Evolving: A Conversation with Gallery Owner Cristin Tierney

Pittsburgh’s Bunker Projects & How Artist-Run Spaces Tackle Art, Money, and Community

Explorations in Art Theory Part 2: We Can or We Kant?

Our Team's Monthly Picks: March 2024

Four Highlights from the 81st Whitney Biennial

Invisible Souls of Beau Dick’s Masks at Andrew Kreps Gallery

Art World Insider

Luis Emilio Romero grew up in Guatemala, surrounded by lush green wildlife and an abundance of high-altitude mountains. As a painter, he uses an approach that emphasizes both structure and abstraction. Here's a first-hand look at his studio practice and weaving-inspired paintings.

Painting as Weaving: Luis Emilio Romero’s Studio Spotlight

Katita Miller uses collage and pattern to reconstruct events and spaces she can no longer access. Drawing upon distant memories and images, her paintings are maximalist, multilayered surfaces that fluctuate between the mundane and the fantastical. Take a look at Katita’s studio practice here.

Distant Childhood Memories Visualized: Katita Miller’s Studio Spotlight

Drawing With Clay: Judd Schiffman's Studio Spotlight

Video

Explore the work and life of Claude Cahun, a pioneering artist who challenged norms of gender and identity. openly resisted the rise of fascism, and continues to inspire artists working today.

Surrealist Claude Cahun's Radical Legacy

Using three recent exhibitions as anchors (Matisse, Basquiat, Haring, Tillmans), Jack Lancaster explores how the history of modern and contemporary art were shaped by artists showing work outside traditional gallery spaces. 

Night Shifts: Art Finds a New Home in Nightclubs

The intersection between art and design has historically generated a number of interesting perspectives on aesthetics. Through Boris Groys’s writing on self-design, Timothy Morton’s contributions to object-oriented philosophy, and the work of the artist Philip Seibel, this text examines how the innermost functionality and the surface qualities of a thing come together to say something profound.

So Much Bigger on the Surface of Things: Design & Holism in the Work of Philip Seibel

The Knights of Longing: Nostalgia and Mysticism in the Work of Steve Bishop

Blurry Blueprints: Minami Kobayashi and Adrianne Rubenstein’s duo show at Et al. etc.

Notes from the Emergency Room: Disaster and the Avant-Garde in the Work of Florian Meisenberg

Essays

Muddling the Middle: Noam Parness, Guest Curator

Uncanny Feelings: Donna Honarpisheh, Guest Curator

Corporeal Creativity: Emily Edwards, Guest Curator

Guest Curator

Testudo is a platform built to celebrate artists and to create the next great community of artists, collectors, and enthusiasts. Our model offers artists a higher percentage of sales, giving them more freedom to create. By purchasing artworks on Testudo, collectors directly support these artists. 