Author Archives: jolanta
Jem Cohen
Jem Alan Cohen (born 1962) is an award-winning New York City-based filmmaker known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes.. Jem Alan Cohen (born 1962) is an award-winning New York City-based filmmaker known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats (16mm, Super 8, video) and collaborations with music artists.[1] He is […]
Swoon
Swoon is a street artist born in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. Swoon is a street artist born in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. She moved to New York City at age nineteen, and specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures. Swoon
John Houck
John Houck works with constellations of images to explore the traces of urban and social topologies. John Houck works with constellations of images to explore the traces of urban and social topologies. Working with sculpture and found images, John creates photographs that are constructed in the studio and juxtaposes these constructed images with straight documentary […]
Dual Survival: Urban Exploration
We are modern explorers. We travel the country searching for unwanted, overlooked, and under-appreciated urban spaces. We first observe and analyze the territory and then create site-specific installations in an attempt to engage and communicate with the natives. Making art outside of the gallery gives us the distinct advantage of surprise. Upon seeing our work, […]
What We Think We Know, What We Think We See
At the recent opening of Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, perhaps the greatest gathering of the contemporary global art world, a familiar image caught my eye. Not on the wall, but in the postcard racks in the exhibition bookstore, were numerous copies of photos by Del LaGrace Volcano. This ambiguous presentation encapsulates Volcano’s curiously ambiguous […]
Going Down The Rabbit Hole
‘Going down the rabbit hole’ refers to how far you are willing to go to discover your true nature. Naturally, this frightens most people because usually, once you go down, everything goes crazy—as with the example given in Alice and Wonderland. Together these artists make up the ‘Get Down The Rabbit Hole’ exhibition. Their ability […]
Intense Proximity At Palais de Tokyo
The Palais de Tokyo near Trocadero was built for the 1937 International Exposition. A veritable white elephant in the academic “column-beam-slab” style, its 22,000 square feet has a tumultuous history, to say the least: part of the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) until the late 70s, it then served as the Musée d’Art et d’Essai, […]
Jens Ulrich
Jens Ulrich mixes Classical with Modernity to create striking, immense multimedia collages. Berlin based artist Jens Ullrich creates collages on a large scale, depicting a mixture between classical sculptures and dramatic moments in sports photography, an unusual mix.
Jasmine Golestaneh
Jasmine Golestaneh makes accessible, modern multimedia collages which take influence from her other career as a musician and her surroundings, NYC. Born in Florida but raised in Paris, London, and finally living in New York, Jasmine Golestaneh makes multimedia collages and is currently exhibiting in New York at the Spin Galactic Gallery. www.jasminegolestaneh.com
Jemima Kirke
Jemima Kirke is a British born painter, working and living in Brooklyn, NY and bases her practice in oil painting. British born artist Jemima Kirke explores the tradition of oil portraiture and takes influence from Alice Neel, Edouard Manet and Lucian Freud. She works without preliminary sketches and allows her work to unfold in real […]
