Author Archives: jolanta

Mirage was made after a trip to India (an underlying influence) and was the last of the black-and-white series of video performances. It was first designed specifically for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives, New York, where I had spent hundreds of hours viewing films. There was no live video, only pre-recorded tape and […]

I am 31 years old. I am at the beginning of my artistic career. I live and work in Romania. I avoid styles and trends. I consider myself and my artwork free from any “school.” Generally my main mediums have been painting and drawing. I am influenced, to a certain extent, both by classical and […]

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s project Gravity Is a Force to be Reckoned With, is based upon Mies van der Rohe’s uncompleted project, the 50×50 House (1951), a square structure open to view on all four sides through glass walls. In Manglano-Ovalle’s work, the house will be constructed at approximately half scale and inverted, the ceiling of the […]

Leah Oates: What is your background, and when did you know you would be an artist? Vadana Jain: I was born in Queens, but we flew back to India often while I was growing up to visit family. It was such a change from New York City, with animals grazing everywhere and rag carts and […]

The Mesocosm is the mediating space between the Absolute and the Material, a place where the real, imaginary, and symbolic coexist. Sites become states of being, and different realities collide and cooperate. The landscape is reconfigured as an environment for a new transculture, a utopian construction, a metaphor for consciousness. These paintings are constructed from […]

I began photography because I wanted to satisfy an urge I had to create visual stories. I began in December 2008 when I graduated from Temple University. I had just received two degrees in film and English, but my thirst had not been quenched. I wanted a faster and more efficient way of telling the […]

Anything is likely to be the subject of my drawings. I mix a conglomeration of different subject matter within the same space: global, local, political, cultural, swine flu, economic crisis, Europe, morning coffee, surveillance society, East-West, war on terror, universal health care. My art combines cartoons, graffiti, and art brut. Humor, irony, and cultural references […]

Zhu Xian: In recent years, some of the projects you did in Asia—such as Celebrating the World, Game Table, Fu Dao/Fu Dao—Upside-down Buddha/Arrival at Good Fortune—bear a strong relationship to your above-mentioned ideas. My feeling is that these projects are half joyful and half sorrowful, making people not know whether to laugh or to cry. […]

London-based painter Ben Pritchard’s newest exhibition, Days, in Long Island City could easily be overlooked, considering the madness of New York Gallery Week, which took place in early May. While most of the focus was on Chelsea and the Lower East Side, I found myself on a Friday at Pritchard’s opening in Long Island City. […]