Author Archives: jolanta
Baldessari: Equally Cool and Visceral
Equally cool and visceral, John Baldessari’s impressive, handsome, understated selection from two interrelated series marks his territory in two formal investigations some conceptual photographers began in the 80’s. In the “Windows” series, Baldessari works through the relationship between painting and photography, as Duane Michals did in shows at Sidney Janis. In “Columns,” he composes multi-paneled […]
Breaking Out of District 9
My work is informed by my experiences as a result of my mixed African heritage. I was classified “colored” under South African apartheid classification, but being fair-skinned, I was simultaneously labeled as “whitey” within this community. My work explores the confines of these narrow labels. I aim to reflect on and counter the systems and […]
Noreen Larinde
My images employ a woman, a particular setting, and a flower, elements deriving from the Japanese aesthetic of Yugen My images employ a woman, a particular setting, and a flower, elements deriving from the Japanese aesthetic of Yugen, which forms the basis of the Zen drama called Noh, a highly symbolic and religious drama. According to this […]
Impulsive Pieces
I sit at a big wooden table and piece together fragments of the world around me. My goal is to pause a moment in time just long enough for examination. As today’s world edges closer to chaos, and we are inundated with imagery and information, the centuries-old art form of collage is more relevant than […]
Fossil Foundations
The core of my current body of works is dealing with middle stages, focusing on a critical, compressed moment. Through the mediums of sculpture, installation, drawing and collage, I investigate aspects of banal evil, bureaucratic violence, and alienation that exist underneath the surface and threaten to emerge. In my “laboratory,” I use nature as a […]
Concrete Meanderings
In this age we are often surrounded by concrete, and in most cities you will find concrete areas in the process of construction. The name of the cement widely used in the world is Portland, hence the title of my work. The elements of iron scaffolding, used on construction sites and rusted by time, give […]
The Fibers of Our Being
Shawn Kuruneru’s black-and-white portraits of figures, busts, and faces convey a slick, cold feeling of anonymity. Their visual constructs, the descriptions of muscle and hair, are anything but distant, but through the artist’s personal paths in aesthetic, they have become clean, graphic, wiping away much human recognition. In the artist’s act of portraying an individual, […]
Bugs, Bones, and Feathers
In less sure hands, New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design’s Dead or Alive, an exhibition of 37 international artists, whose work is composed of feathers, bones, egg shells, insects, fur, antlers, dried and rotting plants, with a few stuffed birds and animals thrown in, would be a creepy, crawly experience, one that could […]
Helen Baker
This work examines the politics of heritage. Inspired by a residency in Rome, these new works, Stop and Search, in gouache on gessoed board, carry these messages in a mosaic-like form. These texts emphasize the legalities that inform our political landscape and will be our bequest, which transcends potent messages across borders. I am building […]
Amanda J. Kennington
Newcastle-born Amanda J. Kennington is a photographic artist who depicts well-known fairytales, ghost stories, or familiar daydreams through her photographic imagery. In many of her images, she exclusively constructs the scenes that she photographs using carefully chosen locations, models, costumes, and props. There is often a central character in Kennington’s narratives, which is frequently performed […]
