Author Archives: jolanta
Survival AIDS
From May 1 – June 5, 2011, PARTICIPANT INC presents Survival AIDS, a major solo exhibition by Hunter Reynolds. Reynolds is a New York artist and activist who has been living with HIV/AIDS since 1984. Survival AIDS spans two decades of Reynolds’ work, incorporating key elements of his ongoing practice—the Blood Spot series, Mummification performances, […]
2011 MFA Exhibition @ Flux
’Tis the season for MFA exhibitions. This time, graduating students from Brooklyn College are putting together an exhibition later this month entitled “Memory Palace.” The ‘memory palace’ is an ancient memorization technique, in which one mentally furnishes a remembered architectural space with vivid, off the wall mnemonic imagery. The 2011 Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition […]
2011 MFA Exhibition @ Fisher Landau
Sunday marked the opening of a three-week long exhibition of artists graduating from Columbia’s MFA program. These artists are seriously innovative and will be making serious marks on the art scene. Get in on it early so you can be the one to say, “Oh, Ms. NewBigName? Yeah, I’ve known about her for, like, ever.” […]
Don Voisine: May 5 – June 11
Don Voisine: May 5 – June 11, 2011 McKenzie Fine Art, 511 West 25th Street, New York, New York 10001
So long, Osama.
It wasn’t a few hours since President Obama announced Osama’s timely demise, but the New York Times Artsbeat Blog had compiled a post on books on the supervillain. Of course, the Artsbeat blog has been dedicated to following, well, whatever’s on TV. It certainly raises the issue of the iron fist that television ratings have […]
Zachary Bako
Oujin Zachary Bako www.zacharybako.com I am interested in the creative and mental process that leads to the completion of a finished piece of artwork. In October of 2010, I followed five contemporary Chinese artists in Beijing, documenting a single day out of each of their lives. This exhibition denotes my time spent with Oujin, an […]
Tulin Gozurka
Yellow Cycle Tülin Gözükara www.tulingozukara.com/ I am trying to focus on what I believe as the “eternity” within me and produce my artwork solely with the inspiration of it. I believe that artwork expresses the intention with visual elements where everything that I cannot put into words, comes back to life in the forms of […]
Shigeo Sato
Food, Job, Family, Life Shigeo Sato Shigeo Sato Website “Those motifs change into one shape with big undulations though it seemingly looks confusing.” I’m picking up the wastepaper, the sounds, the smells, the words and the landscapes on any street as my motif. Those motifs change into one shape with big undulations though it seemingly […]
Nacera Guerin
Nacera Guerin http://www.nacera.com/www.nacera.com/Welcome.html Nacera is a French Algerian born professional Artist who also lived in France, Switzerland, Colorado, California and England. She has had many solo exhibitions in the U.S. including Stanford University. She has participated in several group shows internationally. Nacera was selected and participated at the Florence Biennial in 2005 and 2007. She […]
Mary Lee Lombard
Pink Abstract Mary Lee Lombard www.LombardArtGallery.com “In Pink Abstract, Lombard richly executes her subconscious expressions of a real time and space using masterful brushstrokes and texture.” Since age five, Mary Lee Lombard had extensive training in a vast number of styles, ultimately emerging as an American Abstract Expressionist painter. Such paintings exude the artist’s feelings, […]
