Author Archives: jolanta
Wei Dong, New Paintings
Wei Dong, New Paintings, Thursday, February 17, 6-8pm @ Nicholas Robinson Gallery Nicholas Robinson Gallery is pleased to present the second gallery exhibition for painter Wei Dong. Wei Dong’s new paintings consist of single or multi-figure compositions, reflecting on and satirizing the social mores of both the Maoist era in China, and its legacies within […]
Mug Shots
“I’m not with the victims, but with those making amends,” says Raphaël Dallaporta. The photographer has set up his camera where it happened. He has tried to go beyond the suffering of individual fates, his only certainty being his documentary conviction. Dallaporta doesn’t photograph what’s happening. He doesn’t cover the event; he’s not the news […]
ARMORY ARTS WEEK: Uptown and Museum Mile – Tuesday, March 1
The Art Show Gala Preview The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America to benefit Henry Street Settlement, is one of the most prestigious, varied and exciting art fairs in the nation. The Gala Preview annual event brings together an international group of collectors, connoisseurs, socialites, and celebrities for a cocktail reception […]
Aaron Johnson
Aaron Johnson’s reverse-painted acrylic-polymer-peel paintings inhabit the realms between the erotic-catastrophic/ecstatic-psychotic/comic-tragic, fusing diverse vocabularies into his own distinctive breed of Americana-grotesque, all rendered obsessively with tender brutality. Johnson’s painted universe overflows with Romantic beauty and sexual violence twisted into demonic tales of a world gone berzerk, monstrous musings on the absurdity of war and religion, […]
Falling Through the Cracks
The work, Tremors, a large-scale floor installation simulating cracked earth, is based on a photograph of a dried mud flat, splintered by desiccation cracks. The floor piece is made of MDF boards that were scraped and chiseled. One of my associations to this piece is Walter De Maria’s Earth Room (1977, New York) but, unlike […]
Embracing the Short-Lived
A 24-carat-gold leaf wall painting, a 40-meter-high design on a tower block, and a 5,000-word film script handwritten directly on the gallery walls are brought together in the South London Gallery’s exhibition, Nothing is Forever. Celebrating the completion of the South London Gallery’s £2-million building project, this ambitious group show puts on display wall paintings, […]
Millionaires in Hangzhou
Spring Outing is a group project carried out by 12 young artists based in Hangzhou, China. They are: Deng Ji-Yun, Gu Xian-Ye, Hao Xing, Hong Wei, Jin Ya-Nan, Li Wen-Qiang, Lu Yi, Wang Ke-Wei, Xu Shi-Jun, Zhang Wei, Zhang Yi-Shen, and Zhou Ming. The idea for the project came from a game called Big Millionaire. […]
Michael Mulvihill
My drawings are usually made in graphite on paper. They are based on photographs that are either taken of places I am visiting or found, which are worked and reworked through successive rubbing out. The successive rubbing out creates a surface that gives the impression that the world is in a process of dissolving. The […]
Man Ray: Unconcerned, But Not Indifferent
“Yes” was Marcel Duchamp’s reply at every point scored in the tennis match he and Man Ray played the first time they met in 1915. They played without racquets, nets, or a ball, and neither one spoke the other’s language. It was in the countryside of New Jersey at an artist colony where Man Ray […]
Karen Davies
In recent years Karen Davies, though trained as a sculptor, has increasingly devoted herself to printmaking and drawing that have formed an equally vital part of her practice. Bringing three-dimensionality from sculpture, Davies’ recent etchings exploit the ability of the medium to uncover yet also conceal. Rendered in a medium that has been used since […]
