Author Archives: jolanta
Space Invaders
The Lehman College Art Gallery has been taken over by the artworks of eighteen featured artists in its exhibition Space Invaders. Through structures of the building, both inside and out, works are peering, creeping, growing, and hanging through the floor, ceiling, walls, and even the balcony. Working with a specific location in mind, the unique […]
Frieze London 2012: How Many Fairs In One?
Crowded. This is maybe the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of an art fair. For sure, that “crowded” became a more real, tangible sensation during Frieze London 2012, whose historical tent in Reagent’s Park, London, became one of many to visit this year. For the first time, the attendees had to […]
Claudia Unterleitner
My paintings are inspired by nature, the little things like pansies. The enlarged depiction of little beauties, highlighting their uniqueness, the splendid chromaticity of each blossom–that is my passion. I also love to capture impressions, for example when I see the sun brushing over the moss, creating beautiful shades of light and color, just like in my […]
Carolyn Heer
Born 1960 in Nigeria, Carolyn Heer’s formative years were marked by numerous moves within West Africa, Switzerland and Canada. A richness of cultural impressions formed the young mind: languages ranging from English to French and High German along with various tribal dialects were part of her training and exposure. They left their mark along with […]
Benno Sökeland
“The world is beautiful” is the artist’s leitmotif. Her pieces display this point of view through both figuration as well as abstraction, especially the decorative pieces that display positive energy and good vibrations. You can see the main statement also in an ironic way, some paintings pick up topics of obvious abuses in society. Sometimes […]
Grégoire Devin: Street To Canvas
innovative experimentation Grégoire Devin, Go Play a Video Game, 2012. 120 x 150 cm, Mixed media. Grégoire Devin: Street To Canvas By Paul Gost Grégoire Devin, an up and coming 34 year old French artist, brilliantly evokes mental, urban ideas through his paintings. While using street art as a base, Devin integrates concepts and […]
Maria Jaakkola: Captivating Watercolors
By Jill Smith Neo-Impressionistic art is something that is very difficult to master; as opposed to painting something the way that you see it, the way it appears in nature. The artist, instead of simply rendering a representational image, imbues personal feelings in relation to a given subject. This becomes more complex as one […]
Jean-Marc Schwaller: Evoking The Nature Around And Within
By Allison A Van Spankeren While not a figurative painter in the traditional sense, Swiss artist Jean-Marc Schwaller gives attention and emphasis to the tangible world, as his work often focuses on the abstraction of nature. Schwaller brilliantly transforms realistic subjects, such as water gardens and landscapes, into visceral compilations of light and color. Schwaller […]
Alessandro Di Cola
sutured images courtesy of the artist Alessandro Di Cola: Sutured Images By Paul Gost Alessandro Di Cola is an artist whose work captures memory, color and imagination and stitches it into a sublime moment for all eternity. Since his graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, the Italian painter and sculptor has […]
Feminist and Post-Feminist Art: A Dialogue With The Past
With Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney Museum and Cindy Sherman at MoMA, this past year has seated women artists at the forefront of the New York art scene. These impressive retrospectives called attention not only to the force and depth of the artistic creation of women, but also to the woman as subject matter in […]
