Author Archives: jolanta

I am interested in the areas where separate items are evident, and also areas that complicate into mush, personal/collective narratives, and exploring how these stories can be distilled into works. Every identity has a universal weight in its particularities; of course Romanian identity has its own spice and a very rich background that enlivens very […]

Zheng Lu’s art can be defined as “interpreting non-existence.” “Interpretation” refers to “reading or reading aloud.” The sculptures are composed of Chinese characters from poems or passages, so as to establish the connection between the artistic charm of the poem or the passage and the theme of the work. “Non-existence” derived from the hollowed-out works’ […]

My entire existence feels like a permanent vacation. Reality is photogenic in itself to me. I never find myself in search of a subject, as subjects never cease to come my way. There are only not enough photo films, not enough time, not enough space, and never enough funds to grasp it all. Funny enough, […]

In classical Chinese literature, the character represents many things: books, the written word, and the act of writing itself. Much of my work relates to shu (book) in its various permutations. Those whose culture embraces Chinese characters (i.e. people in Greater China, Korea, and Japan) have such respect for shu and consider it so sacred, […]

As a contemporary painter, Shelley Reed is in part a bricoleur. Her imagery is borrowed from art historical sources, sometimes wholesale, sometimes from details of other paintings, and sometimes cobbled together and re-contextualized. Reed deftly melds aspects of painting, theater, and cinema to create complex narratives rich with beauty, drenched in mystery, and fraught with […]

Alex Mirutziu is a Romanian artist whose work cuts across multiple domains, including conceptual writing, performance, photography, and video installations. His work endows social processes with ephemeral emergence as the man constructs in an attempt to reconfigure the relation between information and form, psychophysical language and content, challenging origins and meaning. After the disturbing solo […]

The Helpmeat series of drawings began, absurdly enough, with the reading of a line from Genesis, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helpmate.” The synonym “helpmeet” didn’t exist until a slow series of errors of translation occurred (the first in the King James Bible, and the […]

Painting acrylic portals, as he calls them, Michal Balazik plays the artistic tour guide to new worlds, new realities, or perhaps this reality viewed in a different light. Building layer upon layer of paint this Slovakian artist brings us a view of nature that is not one to understand, but one to loose yourself in. […]

My work acts as a conduit to the unconscious. Parts of it are anatomical, botanical, animal, and mechanical. I rework the “guts” of my characters and provide an interplay of metaphors. Based on simple, intimate and immediate means, I attempt to interweave the internal and external, the physical and metaphysical, the individual and collective. Often […]