Author Archives: jolanta
Christopher Leach
“Today’s society values the mass product, the copy, the Internet, the knowledge, over and above know-how.” Courtesy of the artist. Christopher Leach www.christopherleach.net Today’s society values the mass product, the copy, the Internet, the knowledge, over and above know-how. This image represents the distortion and blurring that occurs in a high speed, dynamic […]
Nadia Ayari: Multiplicity
I have always felt that the materiality of painting has the visceral command necessary to address the hardest of subjects. My interest in the eye began a few years ago. In it, I found a character that focuses complex narratives into simple, abstract forms. This reduction is paired in my recent work with the multiplicity […]
Suspension of the Covered Woman
As a foreigner living in the Middle East, I was often caught between a desire to look at covered women and the realization that the clothing worn was expressly designed to discourage looking. Over the course of a six-month residency at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, I explored this tension by researching the history […]
“Disponible: A Kind of Mexican Show” Opens at SMFA Boston
“Disponible: A Kind of Mexican Show” is a project generated from an accelerated research in Mexico and a long-term dialogue between the curators. It presents a few individuals’ visions from the Mexican art scene, particularly those who are not directly related to the linage of the over-exposed, post- conceptual “magical realism,” which is highly […]
Middle Eastern Artists in the Diaspora
Art Platform-Los Angeles and Leila Heller Gallery, New York will present a group exhibition of contemporary Middle Eastern artists living in the Diaspora. The presentation will create a dialogue amongst expatriate artists, and the result will be a rich and dynamic exploration of nine artists, all at various stages in their lives and careers. Four […]
Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth: Notes on an Exhibition
Between Heaven and Earth, is a new exhibition of work from 23 contemporary artists from Central Asia. It has been conceived by Berlin-based curator, David Elliott for Calvert 22, a not-for-profit foundation specializing in contemporary art from Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and located in Shoreditch, London, UK. In an exclusive edited extract from his […]
The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
One of the many reasons we can (proudly, loudly) call our city the greatest in the world are our public libraries. The idea of a library being completely open to the public, and most importantly free, was revolutionary at the inception of the New York Public Library in 1895, when almost all libraries in the […]
Tatjana Tiziana
“My art attempts to help others understand a worldwide story, the importance of our water conditions and water resources.” Courtesy of the artist. Tatjana Tiziana www.tatjana-tiziana.ch/com My art attempts to help others understand a worldwide story, the importance of our water conditions and water resources. And how important they have been and still […]
Tatjana Tiziana
“My art attempts to help others understand a worldwide story, the importance of our water conditions and water resources.” Courtesy of the artist. Tatjana Tiziana www.tatjana-tiziana.ch/com My art attempts to help others understand a worldwide story, the importance of our water conditions and water resources. And how important they have been and still […]
Phara Zoëv
Courtesy of the artist. Phara Zoëv www.users.telenet.be/zoev/ In the beginning of each creation Lines appear like an octopus. It’s the birth of the movement The intuition of the moment. The tension becomes free Spontaneous is the conducted line. And then the in conscious comes up The arabesque creates a new dimension And gives […]
