Author Archives: jolanta
Painters & Poets
“He was part of a revolutionary quartet that included Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery and James Schuyler; know today as the nucleus of New York School of Poetry.” Larry Rivers, Pyrography: Poem and Portrait of John Ashbery II, 1977. Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 58 inches. Courtesy of Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York. Joe Brainard […]
Design at the Brooklyn
March 4–May 29, 2011 Wednesdays 11am – 6 pm Thursdays and Fridays 11am – 10pm Saturdays and Sundays 11am – 6pm First Saturday of Each Month 11am – 11pm200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn This season, new acquisitions including futuristic bicycles, furniture, and other design pieces will be on display at the Brooklyn Museum.Thinking Big is […]
Drawing Serra
Throughout his career, Serra has made drawings as separate, immediate, and fundamental lines of investigation to his sculptures. They are explorations in their own right, integral to the overall concerns of his sculptural practice, and unique intuitive explorations within their own established criteria. Using black paintstick or oilstick, heated to a viscous and sometimes fluid […]
SKIN Erica Simone
On the heels of an exciting new solo show at Dash Gallery in Soho, I caught up with photographer/artist Erica Simone. Her recent show entitled Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen, is comprised of photographs that critique traditional values in American culture. The show will be on view from April 14 – April […]
Fool’s Gold
April 18 – April 22, 2011 11:00 am – 6:00 pmPratt Institute, Steuben South Gallery200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11205 “I begin a project when an idea reinforced with a feeling emerges. This feeling navigates between fear, anger, and desire. It motivates me to execute the idea, and it sustains me until the […]
Ai Wei Wei in the Chinese News
News, rumours, and protests centered on the imprisonment of artist Ai Wei Wei have been accumulating at an ever-faster rate. His wife has been questioned, his driver and accountant have disappeared, and other associates of the artist seem to be in jeopardy. News, rumours, and protests centered on the imprisonment of artist Ai Wei […]
Jana Brike
I was born in 1980 in Riga, Latvia – a small country of just 2 or so million inhabitants, in the North of Europe – which was at that time under Soviet occupation. Both of my parents were computing device engineers, trained to operate strange ancient computers in a size of a room, in Soviet […]
Martha Cooper Remix
Photographs by Martha Cooper and original remixes of her photographs in a rane of media featuring work by Aeon, John Ahearn, Aiko, Bio, Nicer & B-Gee, Blade, Blanco, Mark Bode, Burning Candy, Victor Castillo, Cey, Cekis, Claw$, Crash, Dabs & Myla, Anton van Dalen, Daze, Dearraindrop, Jane Dickson, Dr. Revolt, Duster, Shepard Fairey, Faust, Flying […]
Triple X Salon in Moscow
Benrimon Contemporary has announced “Three-Fold,” South Korean painter Changha Hwang’s first solo exhibition with the Chelsea gallery, which is on display until May 7, 2011.“Hwang creates abstract paintings that deal with spatial and temporal notions of painting. The artist’s main concern is the relationship between the “Controlled” and the “Uncontrolled” in the process of composing […]
Worlds Collide with Wang Qingsong
Now through May 8, 2011 Tuesday – Thursday, 10am – 6pm Friday, 10am – 8pm Saturday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm International Center of Photography 1133 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) at 43rd Street “When Worlds Collide,” a solo exhibition of Chinese artist and photographer Wang Qingsong is on view now at the […]
