Author Archives: jolanta
The Monsters of Stefanie Gutheil
Darkness is never absolute; there is always a beam of light that illuminates the depths. Stefanie Gutheil fills her murky vision with distorted imaginative images of creatures culled from her unconscious that in time constitute the genesis of fresh ideas, turbulent progenitors of creative evolution. The artist establishes baroque tableaux of dream-like hybrids that […]
The Guggenheim Gets Renovated: Nicola Lopez’s “Landscape X: Under Construction”
Construction can elicit a diverse array of reactions. For some, it’s the beginning of an exciting business venture. For others, it’s the dystopian spawn of our commercialism-crazed society. For most, it’s just head-pounding racket. But for Nicola Lopez, it’s a vibrant and stimulating muse. “It’s absolutely beautiful and magical, yet totally overwhelming and completely […]
2011 Kaosiung International Container Arts Festival: Artbitat
The Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival has been held once every two years since 2001, and has become a distinctive Kaohsiung event. The 2011 Container Arts Festival has a theme of “Artbitat.” The artists have created visions of the home transcending time and space using very mundane cargo containers. “The works will enable […]
Jim Lee Interviews David Kramer
Jim Lee: Has your work always been occupied by the “good life”? Because craft seems to be an important element as well…did you grow up building things or did a family member get you started using tools and materials? David Kramer: My dad used to hand me things and say “fix this.” There were lamps […]
The Mask And The Mirror
Artist self-portraits have historically fascinated the public eye as they have become artists’ most personal and intimate expressions, but this trend has taken a particularly big turn in the past two decades among contemporary artists. As a young art student in the mid 1980s, I remember developing an obsession with the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo […]
Hans Haacke 1967 at MIT
Hans Haacke is a world-renowned artist whose work explores, both natural (such as geological and meteorological) and social (including governmental and corporate) processes. Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1936, Haacke received his degree in 1960 from the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany. He then worked in Paris at the print studio of Stanley William Hayter, […]
Around The World: Valentina Ciarallo Interviews Ian Tweedy
Valentina Ciarallo: Who is Dephect? Ian Tweedy: Dephect is an alter ego of mine. I have had others but Dephect was most widely used and also known to the public. Dephect was a strategy, a way to penetrate different playing fields at one time, an artist, a guide, an activist, and a vandal. “When I […]
Noris Dias
“I use strong colors, sometimes almost pure-ones.” Courtesy of the artist. Noris Maria Dias www.noris.no Searching for simplicity; I want to express emotions, opinions combined with a vibrating mixture of colors and figurative symbolism. I want to tell a story from the beginning, initiate a discussion, make people think and let them dream. The […]
Kathy Clavette
“When I am painting, music is omnipresent.” Courtesy of the artist. Kathy Clavettewww.kathyclavette.com As a former drafter, I prefer flowers and ponds as subjects. They allow me to paint other things than straight lines, making room for gesture. Flowers need water, which is the reason it is almost always present in my painting. I […]
Big, Bold, and Undeniably Ambitious: Jonathan Prince at the Sculpture Garden in NYC
The work of Massachusetts based artist, Jonathan Prince—currently on view until November 18 at the Sculpture Garden in the atrium of the old IBM building in New York City, under the title “Torn Steel”—like the artist himself who resembles Julian Schnabel, is big, bold, and undeniably ambitious. But underneath the swagger of the man and […]
