Author Archives: jolanta
When Less Replaces Mess
If ever there was a middle-of-the-road exhibition, (read Sandra Bullock minus the Jesse James scandal), this Whitney Biennial is it. In an effort to pull off an “Obama Change” and ostensibly please everybody, traditional, nattering, nabob art critics included, guest curator, Francesco Bonami, and Whitney senior curatorial assistant, Gary Carrion-Murayari, with a few standout exceptions, […]
Re-inventing Renaissance
Putting Renaissance sculptures at the forefront of her paintings, Stefania Mainardi’s work turns these ancient characters into the paintings’ primary subject matter, making them the focal points in each piece. Painted in such an attentive, detailed way these painted statues possess a vitality that makes them appear closer to life. Finding those warm tones in […]
Flesh and Forest
I am a visual artist who primarily works with photography, although I have tiptoed in video and performance art as well. I have been engaged in public service through the work that I have done with at-risk youth through the juvenile correctional system at the California Youth Authority, among others. I like the idea of […]
Heroes
My work mainly comes from my own personal experience. When people look at my work, I hope they will first be moved, and then they are forced to think. If my work compels them to do that, I consider it a success. I came back to China in 2008, and this is the first group […]
Surfacing Subconscious
I feel that my art is an uninhibited territory for me. It’s kind of like pulling the dinner table cloth from under expensive porcelain, and watching a big colorful mess taking place, playing with the velocity of time and watching the different stages of a creative disarray. While on a still frame, all stages look […]
A Meditative Gesture
I was born in Fujian, China in 1977. I moved to Hong Kong with my mother in 1984. When I first moved there, I couldn’t understand Cantonese or English, so I had to drop two grades and started from kindergarten. The language, my age, and my identity made me feel different than everyone else, and […]
Lily Ponds
Born in Sweden in 1955, Agneta Livijn spent her youth in Sweden and in France. She received her education at the Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm, at L’Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris and later at the San Francisco Art Institute in USA. Art has always been a great interest of Agneta’s, and she […]
Domestic Demolition
Born into a place is one case. Living there means choosing it and adapting to it. I am Loredana Longo. I was born in Sicily and live there today, a beautiful place of strong character, full of contradictions like the south of Italy and the south of Europe. As an artist, I feel this tension. […]
Cosmologies beyond the White Square
The term “Composition” could imply both a piece of music or dance choreography. Because these art forms are expressed through sound and time, a sense of free-flowing interpretation and open emotional response that is neither literal or interpretive, but rather, abstract and limitless, is engendered in those who witness such art forms. Much like more […]
Southern Extremities
I grew up in New Orleans, a city that provides a perfect setting for my paintings; it’s a place where visual extremes are part of the landscape. A marriage chapel and a strip joint share a common wall. The equestrian of the war lord Andrew Jackson stands across from the peace-inducing St. Louis Cathedral. Elegant […]
