Author Archives: jolanta
An Ambiguous Topography: A Conversation with Jane South
British born artist Jane South lives and works in New York, creating sculpture and installations reflecting the architectural forms of her surroundings. What begin as 2-dimensional drawings become hanging or standing geometric installation sculptures. The artist constructs intricate, yet often large-scale works from card and paper that are visual abstractions of mid-20th century industrial detail. […]
Nada, Pulse and Frieze: Spring Fairs Heat Up New York
Spring art fairs kick off the first week in May here in New York. Off the heels of March, this season is all about Nada, Frieze and Pulse. At the forefront are emerging galleries, project spaces and blue chips too. This year is especially hot, considering that this is Nada’s first time in its 8 […]
NY Arts Suggests: Pulse, Affordable Art Fair, NADA, Frieze
PULSE New York May 3-6 Metropolitan Pavilion125 West 18th Street” PULSE provides a unique platform for exhibitors from around the world to present artists ranging from the well-established, to undiscovered and emerging talents. Interestingly, given the financial uncertainty in Europe, we are seeing an increase in European galleries who are looking to access US-based audiences” […]
Alex Harsley’s Homage To New York
Who is Alex Harsley? You might find him inside the 4th Street Photo Gallery in front of the long lines of black-and-white prints that hang on wooden clips, like clothes on a laundry line. There you will find a beautiful portrait of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as numerous landscapes […]
Ryuhei Matsuo
Courtesy of the artist. Ryuhei Matsuo artstudiotobira@yahoo.co.jp Very simple is my art.
Roelof Rossouw
“Painting for me is all about capturing the effect of sunlight and the juxtaposition of color and tone.” Courtesy of the artist. Roelof Rossouwwww.art.co.za/roelofrossouw Painting for me is all about capturing the effect of sunlight and the juxtaposition of color and tone. I want to stimulate the visual senses and therefore subject […]
Friday’s Links: The Art of Revolution
More than a year has passed since the Egyptian Revolution initiated a falling domino effect throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world. The opening of the new Middle Eastern Art wing serves as proof that the Middle East and its intricate, yet fascinating, conflicts are of interest to a large audience, and […]
In Conversation: Cassandra Louise Baker Interviews Devin Troy Strother
Cassandra Louise Baker: The first time we ever met, I visited your studio in late Fall 2011. You told me this whole meta-narrative about these characters in your painting. There was an entire back-story that I would not necessarily glean from my initial viewing of the work. At that very moment I realized there was […]
Oh Girl, It’s a Girl! Investigating With Sarah Maple
And what a girl this is: The subtle yet powerful artworks of Sarah Maple recently displayed at her London solo show at Aubin Gallery, London, picks up the ever prevailing question on what it is to be a woman in today’s world. The British artist’s show offers a nuanced, confrontational, intelligent, as well as […]
Hypertexture: Then & Now
In an attempt to chart the criterion for the canon of this still emergent perceptual manifestation in the visual arts, let’s look to forerunners such as Jackson Pollock and David Reed. Both of whom have made works where the movement of film and/or cinema enters the movement of the paint—or in the case of Frank Stella sculptures […]
