Author Archives: jolanta

When I began graduate school, I also began working in the sex industry as a way to finance my education without having to work full-time. During the three years of developing my work while under the intensive supervision of the institution, I recognized more and more within myself a conflict raging between my “public body” […]

I have always traveled extensively and experienced different cultures and social contexts. This has shaped my understanding in the scope between the concerns of individuals in their unique situations and the individual within a broader socio-political condition. In 1984 when I was living, working, and studying in America I was employed as well as a […]

For his first solo exhibition Sterling Ruby & Robert Mapplethorpe at Xavier Hufkens, Sterling Ruby engages with the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe. The artist visited the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York to personally select the photographs. Ruby presents a new body of works, including a suite of collages, ceramics, and poured urethane sculptures. In […]

Gerhard Richter opens his exhibition with a large-scale, almost monochrome painting, a painting—pale—of which underlying chromatic structures are layered with translucent veils of white paint with an occasional break on the canvas to suggest, perhaps, that even if there is nothing within nothing, there is a piercing shred of a void. Appropriately, the subtitle of […]

The Museum of Modern Art presents the first major museum retrospective of the artist Gabriel Orozco, who since the early 1990s has forged a career marked by continuing innovation, and has become one of the leading artists of his generation. On view until March 1, this mid-career retrospective examines two decades of Orozco’s career in […]

The boldness of Zadok Ben David’s solo exhibition, Human Nature, at the Tel AvivMuseum of Art, lies in its investigation of the human condition without relying on commonly central themes like evil, depression, death, and loneliness. These have come to provide a kind of safety net for many artists as they are always relevant, and […]

We absorb and filter out the things of the world, spit back their insecurities into the vortex. We treat the ambiguity of perception, and question the impartiality of the written word. Language, video, and photography are used to make new connections between things and reveal hidden worlds. Our purpose is to dismantle symbols and codes […]

Since moving to Kunming from the countryside, I find that I couldn’t get close to nature every day. So when I get the chance to experience the natural world, I want to disappear into nature so that I can reduce the human impact on my consciousness. I care about each journey; I pay attention each […]

I really like the Czech film director Jan Svankmajer. He once said in the making of one of his films, “Art is not swinging between different concepts. Artistic concepts can only rise from the artist’s mastering of the subject expressed, and only then, can the correct concept emerge. The birth of a concept is part […]

My approach to illustration is a combination of mediums that over the years have layered upon each other to create what I hope is a rich visual language. I use photography, painting, drawing, and lately a little model making to create the elements for each image with no part of the process being more important […]