Author Archives: jolanta
Amy Cohen Banker
Leda Amy Cohen Banker www.amycohenbanker.com “Process, time, lyrical movements, sumi-e, and palimpsests are all revealed and articulated.” Amy Cohen Banker has a “painterly,” colorful/colorless style that carves out shapes and forms (synthetic realism). Life is reconstructed as reality and imagination is processed to become a portrait and landscape as layers upon layers of meaning […]
Airco Caravan
Sunny Fukushima, Airco Caravan Airco Caravan www.aircocaravan.com Cuddly or cruel? Nice or nasty? Airco Caravan is always looking for the thin line. Exploring the edge between sweet and sadistic. Power and freedom. Religion and emancipation. Free choice and oppression. Peace and war. Life and death. Juxtapose worlds of kindness and truth, and explore the […]
Dafne Nesti
Dafne Nesti, Paulina gets Married, 1998. Tempera on wood, 11 x 31 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Dafne Nesti: A Narrative of Hope Jill Smith “In a time in history, where beauty is under threat, Nesti’s work retains a sense of elegance and deep respect for humanity.” Dafne Nesti creates vibrant, […]
Blurring the Lines: Breathing Exhibit at The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery
“New York is in a unique position in that it offers a way forward in terms of its capacity for diversity, yet only if we are willing to absorb the changing cultural environment.” Sung Ho Choi, Dreamscape, 2011. Mixed media on wood, 48” x 96”. Courtesy of The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery and […]
Doron Polak / A Body of Evidence
“Today, Doron Polak is focusing on the examination of the connection between body and architecture – researching the meaning of “physical architecture.” Doron Polak, Bread and Body, (Bodies Project) 2009. Photo credit: Uri Dushy Courtesy of the artist. Doron Polak, Body and City, (Bodies Project) 2009. Photo credit: Uri Dushy Courtesy of the artist. […]
Ira Cohen: (1935–2011) Art into Alchemy
“Throughout his life, Cohen had a seemingly endless imagination, taking wonderfully strange photographs of iconic figures, writing thousands of poems, and eventually operating the Bardo Matrix publishing house in Nepal; all the while realizing revelatory experiences into moments of ecstatic perception.” Ira Cohen: (1935–2011) Art into Alchemy Jason Stopa Ira Cohen embodied a certain mystery […]
Revived Through the Thread
“Drawing via embroidery, the works’ surface is created through a dance of repetitive notations, suggesting that a body’s labor isn’t separate from the product it generates but is, rather, another version of it.” osh Blackwell, Plastic Basket (independent triangles), 2010. Plastic bag, yarn, 12 x 18 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Author: Josh Blackwell Borrowing […]
Primal Connection
“I am not necessarily interested in intoxication as a status, but maybe as a way towards the other, the inaccessible, the being but unreachable.” Carsten Holler, SOMA, 2010. Installation view, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. Photo credit: David von Becker. Courtesy of David von Becker. Author: Carsten Höller The SOMA exhibition as […]
Surreal Realities
“Beneath this insanity is the thought that our entire reality is, in essence, a dream or a projection of consciousness that something substantial and possibly spiritual exists beyond the boundaries of our perception.” Eric White, No Neutral Thoughts, 2008. Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches. Courtesy of Peter Farrelly. Author: Eric White I am […]
Practice
GKEVIN JEROME EVERSON’S two-minute film Something Else (2007) begins with a bit of worn color 16 mm—evidently shot for a local television-news station, perhaps sometime around 1970—depicting an interview with Miss Black Roanoke, Virginia, a young woman in a scoop-necked russet gown, with a sparkling tiara perched atop her Afro. The footage seems battered by […]
