Author Archives: jolanta
The Truth Seeker
I have been engaged in contemporary art for over ten years, working with a variety of media and different experimental approaches, ranging from performance, installation, photography, video, and painting. Generally, I start from the objectivity of the body and the falseness of identity, carrying on research on issues of authenticity that are related to the […]
A Sensory Experience
I see my work as a process of a constant production of the self. I work with different levels of my identity: nationality, gender, age, education, as I would with tools or instruments. I try to use and adapt them, continuously questioning their predetermined limits and possibilities. These often become categories, labels in which I […]
Richard X Zawitz
Richard X Zawitz Richard X Zawitz’s Infinity 8.30 sculpture, September 30, 6-8pm @ Ronald Tutor Campus Center at the University of Southern California
The Melody of Memory
Elisha Ben Yitzhak is a multifaceted artist who works in a variety of media, from oils to acrylic, drawing to watercolor. He is a virtuoso artist who has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally in venues as diverse as Zimbabwe and Switzerland, including London’s celebrated Tate Gallery. In September, he will be featured in a […]
Chance Evolutions
Lindsay Cuff: When I look at your body of work, there seems to be an explicit sense of movement from one state to another. The figures seem to hang in a suspended moment, as if, instead of trying to capture something as it is, you capture it as it is becoming. The process of transmorphing […]
Quality Realism
Ondrej Brody and Kristofer Paetau’s work, Painting China Now (2007), is the starting point for their new work, Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality, and Museum Quality. Painting China Now is a collection of 30 oil paintings depicting violence inflicted by the Chinese government on Falun Dafa members. The paintings were rendered with […]
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger @ Guild Hall, August 14- October 11Opening August 14, 2-4pm
A Small Town Scenario
Curiously drawn by the immediate, Michele Bressan has compiled and reared a personal aesthetic in these passing Romanian scenes. In his four years of activity as a photographer he attained a firm and thorough documentation of a barefaced, yet unobserved local life. His pictures may appear frank in their depicting of everyday viewing, but it’s […]
Compulsive Animality
A long time ago, I was an activist. An animal-rights activist. When I went to art school, I failed to convince myself what I was doing with my work was necessary. It can be useful, but it was not necessary. One day I found myself weeping over my images of animals suffering in cages, and I […]
Victorian Excavation
Early in his career, painter Aaron Smith spent his days feeding a studious obsession for art history and his weekend nights manning the door of a L.A. nightclub that hosted appearances by performance artist Ron Athey and others, who were famously photographed by Catherine Opie. Like many artists of his generation, Smith explores issues of […]
