Author Archives: jolanta
Wild Patterns Marcel Bastiaans
By Jill Smith Marcel Bastiaans started painting when he was eight years old. Realizing that he was different at a young age, he took his childish spontaneity and uncontrolled emotion into his future career. His artworks are positive, joyful, based on dreams, on freedom. The recurrent image of a bird symbolizes that freedom. He is […]
New Worlds: Lill-Anita O. Svendsen
her signature hue “The lush forest pokes through the living room setting. The green palette, in combination with the striking emptiness of the image, creates an alienating effect.” Courtesy of the artist. New Worlds: Lill-Anita O. Svendsen By Rose Hobart Norwegian painter Lill-Anita O. Svendsen is an artist whose process and philosophy are […]
Amanda Barrow, Sasja Lucas, Auguste Rhonda Tymeson
Amanda Barrow, Sasja Lucas, Auguste Rhonda Tymeson Amanda Barrow, Sasja Lucas and Auguste Rhonda Tymeson at Blackburn 20/20 Gallery, Elizabeth Foundation in New York, NY. Open from April 25th through April 29th. Amanda Barrow, Sasja Lucas and Auguste Rhonda Tymeson will exhibit monotype prints, etchings, and silkscreened prints at the Blackburn 20/20 Gallery for […]
Shay Kun, Be First, Be Smarter or Cheat
Shay Kun Shay Kun’s exhibit “Be First, Be Smarter or Cheat” at Benrimon Contemporary in New York, NY. Open from April 26th through June 9th. Shay Kun’s paintings push viewers to challenge their philosophical and aesthetic limitations. While the paintings in this exhibition use appropriated images from the internet, glossy magazines and daily life, they […]
Nick Hartman, Represent
Nick Hartman Graphic designer Nick Hartman on view at the Habitat in Greenpoint 988 Manhattan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11222. Opens Thursday May 3rd and will be up through June. Nick Hartman, “Represent”The Habitat, GreenpointMay 3rd – June, 2012
Larry Rivers, Later Works
Larry Rivers Larry River’s exhibit “Later Works” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, NY. Open from April 26th through June 15th. The majority of the works assembled were done in the last two decades of the artist’s life, between the 1980s and late 1990s. They follow his ongoing exploration of a […]
Everything And All: Slawomir Marzec at Varsovian Gallery
The exhibition is a special treaty on painting and visibility. Marzec takes here (as he does in his theoretical publications) the discussion of the current concept of the picture. His critical references to the idea of parergom (Kant, Derrida), screen (Lacan), repetition (Deleuze), palimpsest (Lyotard), cut/tear (Didi – Huberman) and too others are clearly visible […]
Helsinki World Design Capital 2012
Helsinki, World Design Capital of 2012, is this year’s destination for every design lover with an eye for exciting events, encounters and eccentric exhibitions. Known for their long and distinguished history in design, Finns consider the mandate, granted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, as an exquisite way to present how design […]
Peasants In The City: Rebecca Morgan at Asya Geisberg
On a Thursday evening, in inebriated Chelsea, I robotically entered the Asya Geisberg Gallery and realized that I had stepped into an 18th century fairytale, somewhere in the midst of European woods. Portraits of beautiful, naked women sitting next to grotesque caricatures of modernized peasants. I may have cringed at a few three-dimensional boils that […]
The Body In Question
Unless his estate is keeping them hidden, there isn’t a single nude in Martin Chambi’s work. That in itself is remarkable: photography has been synonymous with disrobing and the strip tease since its inception. Was it reluctance on Chambi’s part, local mores, or restrictions of colonial society? It hardly matters. If Maxim Gorky had been […]
