Author Archives: jolanta

Rinas’s work triggers memories of traditions and rituals that are instilled in Greek citizens since childhood. These paintings depict abandoned industrial edifices co-existing with the fragments of ancient architecture. Within these tableaux loom imaginative symbolic structures in which a musical, stringed instrument becomes a chariot with rusty smokestacks. The strips of paint that intersect and […]

VS: Even though they look heavy, all the sculptures are suspended and thus have an ethereal, weightless quality to them. MR: We used foam for construction and wanted to elevate the sculptures to allude to a kind of rapture for the viewers. We wanted to communicate the idea of the cosmos as being open to […]

For his first New York City solo exhibition, Lundeen brings together seemingly disparate objects—from flags to rugs to posters to keyboards to grocery store dailies and magazine pages—into cohesive works resembling anthropomorphic masks. Neon-colored, kaleidoscopic patterns embellish six-foot tall cut out canvas masks, speaking to the artist’s fascination with the exaggerated theatricality of Coney Island […]

In The Dangerous Book Four Boys, James Franco is casting himself as both an artist and a writer. His book is a product of collaboration and a source of inspiration for his exhibition of films, drawings, photos, and sculptures. The Dangerous Book Four Boys explores adolescence, adulthood, sexuality, destruction and masculinity. Franco draws upon the […]

Peche, a bit of a scientist in her approach, sees nature as “the greatest source of creativity.” In her earlier work, she systematically explored the ever-changing structures and patterns of nature and its god-like effect on rock formation, trees, and leaves – all of which play a much larger part in our everyday lives than […]