Author Archives: jolanta
Livijn’s Love of Light and Lilies
The last two weeks of October marked the first solo exhibition in New York of internationally renowned Swedish artist and ceramic designer, Agneta Livijn. Located in SoHo’s historic Broadway Gallery, the exhibition entitled “Lily Ponds” reflects Livijn’s life experiences and travels. Having spent her childhood in both Sweden and France, Livijn was always especially attracted […]
Vogue’ology
Vogue’ology contains seemingly incompatible elements: aesthetic experience and political activism; community events and forensic research; public manifestations and private workshops. The exhibition is a joint project between the Ballroom Archive & Oral History Project and the sound art collective Ultra-red. Central to the collaboration is a shared interest in developing terms that can serve to […]
Revisiting Brazil: The 29th Sao Paulo Biennial
Anchored in the idea that the line separating separate art from politics is ambiguous, the 29a Sao Paulo Biennial, taking its title “There is always a cup of sea to sail in” from de Lima’s great work, provides spaces in which to reflect on one’s own personal intersections as well as rapid global reorganizations. Looking […]
On the Road
These images were printed in a self-published zine entitled Anywhere But Here. For most of its publicity, this is the description: “This zine and the photographs therein are the product of the necessary leave of absence I took from Brooklyn, NY during the summer of 2008. Sometimes you just gotta get away.” This statement is […]
A Penetrating Investigation
We wanted to showcase works of art created by young, eager artists looking to expand, analyze, and question the ideas of public/private. Using the dual existence of Ampersand, a live/work space, as a jumping-off point, we were interested in work that explored the conflicts, tensions, unions, and coexistence between public/private, in all its forms. Unsettled […]
Girls Just Want to Have Funds
Girls Just Want to Have Funds is a contemporary art exhibition of works by women artists, featuring a panel discussion concerning gender and representation in the visual arts and a benefit art auction. All proceeds from tickets and art sales support the Foundation’s two independent grant programs for emerging visual artists and travel grants for […]
Figuratively Speaking
The exhibition Marked features six young artists, Chino Amobi, Alison Blickle, Brendan Lott, Jenny Morgan, Reuben Negron, and Robin Williams, all taking hold of the figure as they represent and reflect their strong, fertile, and multilayered independent narratives. The artists in this show use various methods, from mark-making to layering materials and concepts, to forcing […]
A Twisted Tango
My recent work deals with themes such as sexual perversion, as well as occult and Thelemic imagery and symbolism. There are also a lot of underlying themes of isolation, sorrow, and mangled senses of self. I try to convey grief and introspective mourning in poignant and relatable ways. Most of my work is narrative in […]
Portraits of Candor
Success came late to Alice Neel. In the first 40 years of her career she exhibited only sporadically and generally in little known group exhibitions, or in small galleries allied to left-wing causes. Although outgoing and gregarious, she lacked confidence in her realist art at a time when abstraction was ascendant. Isolated in Spanish Harlem […]
Pablo Sebastián Pisacco
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