Author Archives: jolanta
On The (W)hole
When Deitch closed, the community of artists I had been supporting needed a gallery to continue and fill the hole that Deitch left, so I became an art dealer. I curate those shows here, and still participate in curating shows on an international level, but I focus more on selling art. The Hole is unique […]
Dodge Gallery Gives a Shit
I don’t find anything to be more compelling, perplexing, challenging, exciting, or moving than art. There aren’t many spaces in life that allow for something so entirely impractical to exist. In what other arena is it acceptable to knit with excavators and telephone poles, for example? Creative thinkers and visionaries are the ones who shape […]
In Conversation: Michael Shaw Interviews Fritz Chestnut
I first encountered your work in its abstract phase, that is post-2008, and now the abstraction is the work that you are known for, at least in Los Angeles. Do you embrace having two distinctly different periods in your work, or is there part of you that wants to put the first phase behind you […]
Sugar Bushwick
SUGAR is an artwork in and of itself. It is not an attempt at any other entity, other than what it truly is. SUGAR is an artwork in and of itself. It is not an attempt at any other entity, other than what it truly is…SUGAR, (found in a large variety of recipes… in my […]
Aurora Robson
Aurora Robson is a multi-media artist known predominantly for her transformative work interrupting the waste Aurora Robson is a multi-media artist known predominantly for her transformative work interrupting the waste stream using plastic debris, excess packaging and junk mail. A Canadian, Robson was born in Toronto in 1972 and has lived and worked in New […]
Brotherus’ Photography – The Novel Painting?
Elina Brotherus, one of her generation’s most significant photographers and video artists in Europe has recently been the subject of a new monograph Elina Brotherus: Artist and her model. The publication gathers both earlier autobiographical works and later works characterized more by formal research and model studies. The award-winning Finnish artist known for her emotional […]
Rachel Uffner Gallery
Rachel Uffner Gallery opened in September 2008 on the Lower East Side of New York Rachel Uffner Gallery opened in September 2008 on the Lower East Side of New York. The program consists primarily of peers and colleagues of the gallerist herself: artists in their late 20s to mid 40s, many of whom have been […]
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW) is a co-operative printmaking workspace that provides professional-quality printmaking facilities. Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW) is a co-operative printmaking workspace that provides professional-quality printmaking facilities to artists and printmakers of every skill level. We are committed to inspiring and fostering a racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse artistic community dedicated to […]
Operating System
“Operating System” features collaborative works by thirty-five artists and writers, and is slated to take place in three different locations over a six-month period in 2012. In addition to the three exhibitions, a post-production publication has been planned for purposes of documenting the various installations, artworks, and essays. According to Heng Gil Han, visual arts […]
Narratives and Narrative Forms: Overseas Exhibitions
The image merges with the world, caring nothing for good and evil, or for good and bad photography. Ultimately, of all the discipline’s massive output there remains only the relevance of stories and their persistence in our memory. Photographic narratives are there. Whether amateur or professional they are close reflections of life; commentaries that are […]
