Author Archives: jolanta
Corydon Cowsange
Corydon Cowsange is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. By examining the lines and geometric repetition of forms that exist in quotidien, banal objects such as a fence or rooftop, Corydon Cowsange explores the patterns that construct everday life. So pristine and expertly measured, her paintings hardly look like paintings at […]
TINKEBELL.
TINKEBELL. provokes by exemplifying the blind spots of modern society. TINKEBELL. provokes by exemplifying the blind spots of modern society. She confronts a public that revels in being indignant about everything that has nothing to do with them, but at the same time is very apologetic about their own actions. By turning her own cat […]
Blake Hudson
Blake Hudson is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn artist, Blake Hudson makes comfortingly witty, expertly crafted sculptures — often made from unconventional materials — whose titles are just as important to the work as the work itself. (Pictured, “Father and Son”) blakehudson.com
Inger Dillan Antonsen: Tonal Range
mixed media artist “There is much freedom in her brushstrokes, allowing the paint to roam, as if it has a mind of its own.” Inger Dillan Antonsen, Reaching Out. Courtesy of the artist. Inger Dillan Antonsen: Tonal Range By Jill Smith Inger Dillan Antonsen’s works are abstract impressionist pieces, with a focus on lyrical […]
Margaretha Gubernale’s Narrative
romantic inspired “The work, permeated by a dark royal blue, evokes an uneasy serenity; like the way one might feel in an empty field or expanse of water in the middle of the night.” Margaretha Gubernale, The Siren. Courtesy of the artist. The Siren Together with my sisterI played on a rocksurrounded by water.We […]
Art Toronto 2012
Art Toronto 2012 Founded in 2000, Art Toronto is one of the most successful fairs in North America. Art Toronto is held annually at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Canada’s top convention and trade-show facility located in the heart of downtown Toronto. Art TorontoOctober 26-29, 2012Metro Toronto Convention CentreNorth Building, Exhibit Hall A & […]
David Altmejd & Lizi Sanchez in London
Pearl on white, On Stripes, On Chocolate Brown and Pistachio On White is another sculpture that sits like an abstracted slice of tactile, sumptuous material. Functioning as both plinth and sculpture, an over-sized cartoonish pearl balances on a sheet of aluminum foil, which could almost have been cut from a Daniel Buren wallpaper (if it […]
Matthew Blackwell and Greg Eltringham In Dumbo
I like the idea of mixing the personal portraits with the invented narratives. The way they are painted, coupled with the prominence of the portraits is intentional and deceptive, and at first viewing most people don’t realize the nature of the narratives until they move in and start looking at the pieces individually. The whole […]
Davina Semo
Davina Semo opened her first solo show at Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam. Davina Semo opened her first solo show at Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam. She presented sculptures and pictures – objects I would instantly recognize as “visual art”. As soon as I started reading the titles of her works though, I began doubting […]
Ryan Sullivan
Letting paint crack, peel, wrinkle, evaporate, congeal, drip, bubble, melt or whatever else is gesture. 1. Letting paint crack, peel, wrinkle, evaporate, congeal, drip, bubble, melt or whatever else is gesture. 2. Painting is alchemy. www.ryan-sullivan.com
