Author Archives: jolanta
FG.Ft (Fad Gadget – Frank Tovey)
FG.Ft (Fad Gadget – Frank Tovey)March 1 – April 8 Opening: Thursday, March 1, 6-8 PM
Lauren Luloff
Lauren LuloffMarch 1 – 31st Opening: Thursday, March 1, 6-8 PM
In Conversation: Emily Auchincloss Interviews Alisha Kerlin
Alisha Kerlin’s paintings have the ability to get past the mind’s usual categories of rational beliefs or humming discursiveness to resonate in a place that’s hard to name. Solitaire games, measuring tapes and dangling carrots are recurrent images, but an equal player in her work is her glowing, murky backgrounds, which often question or even […]
Scope NYC March 8 – 11
Scope New York 2012 Sabine Hertig, Big Mountain, 2011. Following the tremendous success of its Miami edition, SCOPE Art Show returns to New York City for the eleventh year, with an exciting, high-profile location across from The Armory Show. The 30,000 square foot pavilion on 57th Street and 12th Ave will […]
Underworlds Rising: Yi Zhou @RH Gallery
Underworlds Rising: Yi Zhou @ RH Gallery Yi Zhou’s first solo show in New York will derive from and focus on a 3D animated film then follows a journey inspired by Dante’s pilgrimage in The Divine Comedy through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The exhibition will also feature four new sculptures referencing objects featured […]
David LaChapelle: Earth Laughs in Flowers
David LaChapelle: Earth Laughs in Flowers The Lovers, 2008-2011, Chromogenic Print. In “Earth Laughs In Flowers,” David LaChapelle appropriates the traditional Baroque still life painting in order to explore contemporary vanity, vice, the transience of earthly possessions and, ultimately, the fragility of humanity. Expectations of the still life are satisfied through the inclusion […]
30 Artists To Watch in 2012: Part III
As we close our last chapter for 30 Artists To Watch, we realize that you’ve been waiting, perhaps feverishly for what would come out. This last post does not disappoint. Our featured artists are exciting because they are re-orienting the way we see. This is no easy task. And their attention to formal/surface […]
Fountain Art Fair Goes Big
Of the many galleries and artists presenting work this year, there are a few booths that are definitely worth taking a second or third look. Photographer Leslie Lyons’ portraits are dark and enigmatically enchanting, haunting in their provocation of introspective research. Uprise Arts’ Nick Meyer’s snapshots are naturally — and occasionally sparsely — lit glimpses […]
In Conversation: Jason Stopa Interviews Mamma Andersson
“I think that poetry is the foundation of all artistic creation. It is the opposite of political and pragmatic thinking.” Karin Mamma Andersson is one of Scandinavia’s leading contemporary artists. In her paintings she pairs contemporary approaches to form and content with a specifically Nordic, romantic-expressive tradition. Her exhibit Dog Days is on view from […]
Jean-Marc Schwaller, Sans Titre
existential yearning “This feverish attention to the overall affect of the work is a direct result of an existential yearning for communion with the natural world.” Courtesy of the artist. Jean-Marc Schwaller, Sans Titre By: Jill Smith Jean-Marc’s work is bold and vivacious. He employs a gestural mark against saturated color fields, creating a […]
