Author Archives: jolanta
Beauty Contest, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC Sept 21- Jan 3
Beauty Contest, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC Sept 21- Jan 3 Group Show, Beauty Contest Austrian Cultural Forum New York 11 East 52nd Street New York, NY 10022 Sept 21- Jan 3, 2012
Loft in The Red Zone Review
What one notices though, is the way in which memory can contour even the most tragic events “The theme is brought to the fore some 10 years later, when the dust has proverbially settled. What one notices though, is the way in which memory can contour even the most tragic events and transform them into […]
Kristina Sretkova: World of Light Review
By Rose Hobart As the New York art scene gears up for another season, international artist Kristina Sretkova prepares to grace the walls of Broadway Gallery, NYC in Soho with a new set of dazzling paintings. The show entitled, World of Light, showcases Sretkova’s most ambitious works to date. Each painting is wonderfully infused with […]
Michael Hafftka
Throughout my life, I have consistently come to understand the world by creating art. In creating I experienced joy. I paint from my imagination and from observation. When I started painting in 1974, my dreams and imagination led me to explore my cultural history as a child of holocaust survivors. I am also interested in […]
Marsha Owett: “Landscapes Inches Away” Opens at MUSECPMI
I am drawn to the randomness of nature that masquerades as abstraction. As opposed to my paintings, where I must do the abstracting myself, in photography I am nature’s curator. I do not disturb or rearrange what I photograph. I photograph still life in its truest form— life, still and undisturbed. The series “Landscapes Inches […]
Tonal Range: An Approach
In his mid-20th century book, Art and Visual Perception, German art and film theorist, Rudolph Arnheim, calls for us to re-focus our attention on the “virtues of vision.” In a world where “concept is [increasingly] divorced from precept,” he urges us to re-establish the connection to our innate “gift of comprehending things through the senses,” […]
Eroi (Heroes)
Beginning May 19, the GAM Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art presents the exhibition “Eroi (Heroes)” curated by Danilo Eccher and with contributions from Alessandro Rabottini. The exhibition explores the work of artists who carry out daring choices to the point of becoming the carriers of new social values through their own art. The […]
Contemporary British Art: An Introduction by Grant Pooke
At a time when communication technology is rapidly shrinking the size of our collective world-view, presenting an idea in the canon of a national identity can still present us with ideological blinders. We may be able to communicate with the other side of the planet with the click of a button, but attaching a […]
