Author Archives: jolanta
In Conversation: Charles Gute Interviews Matthew Northridge
Charles Gute: In addition to your more labor-intensive sculptural works, you’ve been working on a series of smaller collages that seem more related to drawing. There’s a recurring landscape motif that feels almost like a travelogue—like they’re snapshots. But of what? Matthew Northridge: Each collage is an installment in a larger compendiumtitled The World We […]
Fiamma Morelli’s Otherworldly Abstractions
individual journey “The connotations are endless and provoke us to entertain ideas surrounding beauty, the sublime and ecstasy. “ Courtesy of the artist. FIAMMA MORELLI’S OTHERWORLDLY ABSTRACTIONS By: Jill Smith Fiamma Morelli’s artwork has a spiritual connotation. In her most recent work at Broadway Gallery, NYC. Flaming morning red is rushing ruthlessly through […]
Sirpa Miettinen: A Call To Action
uniqueness “In an age of global information, her works acts like a reminder that visceral mark making can have a significant affect on the viewer.” Courtesy of the artist. SIRPA MIETTINEN: A CALL TO ACTION By: Jill Smith Sirpa Miettinen is an artist who feels very connected to nature; she believes in a […]
KARNAL @ Tachi Gallery
KARNAL @ Tachi Gallery On March 15th, Tachi Gallery presents the opening of “Karnal,” the joint exhibition of artist Phillip Thies and seasoned artist Uccello. Former WWF wrestler Phillip Thies, known to fans by his stage name Damien Demento, continues to tap into the dark character he carved out in the early 90s, […]
Lisi Raskin’s Military
Lisi Raskin’s fascination with the military-industrial complex has long been central to her artistic practice. For over a decade, Raskin’s work has been moored to a Cold War narrative; in Julia Bryan-Wilson’s words, Raskin “performs, rather than enacts,” research. In 2005, the artist spent a month in Scotland looking for nuclear submarines. Since then, she […]
Lesley Heller
Little Languages | Coded Pictures at Lesley Heller Lesley Heller Workspace highlights the work of emerging and underrepresented, mid- and late career artists through a program of concurrent solo and curated exhibitions in two separate spaces within the gallery. The gallery acts as a forum for exploring the fundamental ideas, issues and concerns in contemporary […]
This Show Brought To You By The Squatting Movement
In the center of Madrid, facing the famous statue of Cibeles, the vast over-built wedding cake of a town hall has been renovated as an exhibition space and cultural center. The spacious courtyard has been glassed in, and is now a year-round stone lounge and event space. For such a heavy looking building, the interior […]
In The Penal Colony: Ed Kienholz at LACMA
Edward Kienholz’s Five Car Stud (1969–1972) transports the viewer to a dusty clearing in the woods. It is late at night. Five vintage cars are parked in a circle, their headlights illuminating a couple of dead trees and boulders. Six life-size mannequins, made up to look like white trash, are arranged in the center. All […]
Sasha Meret’s Plastic Menagerie
Upon entering OK Harris Works of Art’s this winter, the viewer was confronted with strange, large shiny objects that resemble birds, reptiles, mammals, and even a giant egg ready to hatch, all of mysterious origin. A closer examination revealed that they are made of plastic cutlery. Sasha Meret’s recent works are sculptural constructions of polystyrene […]
Week In Review: Is It Fair? The Anti-Armory
This year, you might have a dilemma. Will you participate in the usual Whitney/Armory folly, or will you decide to rebel and cross the bridge over to Williamsburg for the ARTS not Fair and Brooklyn Armory events? 2011 was intense: Occupy Wall Street, whether you support the movement or not, made sure its voice was […]
