Author Archives: jolanta
Divine Secrets of the Sisterhood
Afshan Ketabchi belongs to a new generation of Iranian women artists. They occupy a position in the art world, where the effects of globalization are evermore clearly apparent. The West has diverse images of Iran, between clichés of tyranny and despotism on the one hand, and wisdom and sensuality from One Thousand and One Nights […]
“Anonymous” and “Urchins” at Kim Foster Gallery
Anonymous opens at December 2 at Kim Foster Gallery (New York, NY). The exhibition will be held from December 2-24, with the openings reception taking place on Thursday December 9, 6-8pm. You need look no further than Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to find the allure of the anonymous subject, as it wasn’t until 2005, that […]
Day Without Art
ChART Contemporary and the Young Guerilla Informers (YGI’s) are organizing a Day Without Art (DWA), which coincides with World AIDS Day for the third time on December 1, 2010. Please join us in the Caochangdi Art District from 12:00 – 4:00 PM. The program begins with an AIDS ribbon-making workshop hosted by Galerie Urs Meile […]
Homecoming
Catherine Y. Hsieh: Your recent body of work turns ordinary household routines into chaotic little disasters. This desire to dissect what appears banal—does it come from a rebel kind of character within you? If so, how often do you feel the existence of this character? How do you interact? Lee Materazzi: A lot of my […]
GRAPHIC RADICALS: 30 Years of World War 3 Illustrated
NEW YORK – Graphic Radicals is a 30th anniversary retrospective of World War 3 Illustrated, an independently published political comic magazine founded in 1980 by artists Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper. Comprised of original comics drawings and paintings, posters, commissioned murals, documentary film, animation and a complete set of issues, Graphic Radicals will be the largest World War 3 Illustrated exhibition […]
The Indignation Project
Diffused Fingerprints was made specifically for a solo exhibition held this past summer at the National Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. In fact, this “spatial” piece was tailored according to the space of the exhibition hall. The rectangular-shaped room is nearly 33 meters in length, 12 meters in breadth, and 3 meters in […]
Blinding Glitz
Rhydal, seen here in detail, speaks to Glamour Trance. 21st-century Americans court oblivion in shopping, fundamentalism, hegemony, pedigree, capitalism, sugar, and fashion. The list is long. Calling to mind the protagonists of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels or Rita Hayworth in the film Gilda, the sculpture’s hypnotic sizzle is intoxicating. Glamour Trance freezes time and stunts […]
Reading Between the Lines
For her fourth solo exhibition at the Third Line and starting off the fall season, Golnaz Fathi presents a selection of light boxes and new works on paper. Fathi began working on light boxes in 2007 in an aim to take on a distinctive yet different approach to her works predominantly on canvas. This show […]
THE NY ARTS MAGAZINE GUIDE TO THE MIAMI ART WEEK
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Portraits of Anonymity
Sophie Hill: I find the idea of “portraits” through something material interesting. What inspired you to create the Symbolic Portraiture series? Jason Bryant: Well, as long as I have been drawing and painting, I have always been fascinated with capturing nuances and expressiveness of the human face, so naturally one of my biggest influences has […]
