Author Archives: jolanta
Wandering in Needle Park
Christian Holstad recently had his solo exhibition showcasing a new body of work at Daniel Reich Gallery, titled The World’s Gone Beautiful. Holstad’s title is based on a haunting Malvina Reynolds song in which the end of the world is anticipated with hyper-real observation. Reynolds experiences the world intensely—feeling wind on skin: seeing “hands flexing […]
Who’s Watching?
In global surveillance society, the technologies and strategic alliances that constitute surveillance regimes are variously embraced and held suspect, loved and feared. Artistic practices have kept pace, scrutinizing the social, political, and aesthetic dimensions of surveillance. Tapping into current expressions of this phenomenon, Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control has been developed in […]
The Innate Calling
The Dreamers celebrates the lives and outstanding work of eight distinguished Aboriginal artists who have contributed significantly to Australia’s cultural landscape through their creative endeavors. The exhibition is drawn exclusively from the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s collection, and includes artists from across the country, working in diverse mediums and styles. Cara Pinchbeck The […]
An American Rally
The Whitney Biennial, 2010, takes over the Whitney Museum of American Art from February 25 through May 30. This is the 75th in the ongoing series of biennials and annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the museum was founded. The 55 artists were selected by curator Francesco Bonami and associate curator […]
Press 1
Faced with the question of how to operate as an artist within an exuberant art market Cai Nyahoe plays with the parameters of an instantaneous society in his recent work: Towards a Semi-Autonomous Self-Perpetuating Art (Phone Sex). Shown at Satellite project space in Newcastle upon Tyne as a bare audio installation, the work presents a […]
A Terrain of Legends
Mexico holds a fascination for artists with its edgy proximity to nature. Teeming with life and death and heir to a civilization at once technologically advanced and steeped in human sacrifice, it is a country of contradictions. The folk religion of Mexico is a fascinating combination of Christianity and Mayan traditions, combining a pantheon of […]
The Extractionist’s Vision
Recently the Broadway Gallery NYC exhibited the work of Ukraine-born artist Igor Zaytsev. The pieces in the show were selected paintings that may appear realistic or abstract but in reality are extractions—a combination of the two extremes. The work asks the viewer to question what they are seeing: something realistic or something abstract or both. […]
Winged Men
With this series, I’m revealing a personal realization about the ANGEL; I’m not a religious person and this work has little to do with religion or even spirituality, but closer to the realms of math and biology. The ANGELS are symbols for the ANGLE. The angle of human DNA. Angels and the Holy Grail are […]
Wilma Rosch
Rosch’s collages are a vibrant mix of exuberant colors. Lively oranges and reds bring an intense energy and dramatic flare to the artist’s collages. Blooming flowers spreading their blossoming petals throughout the composition, blown up rather large at times, some flowers possess a notable stage presence in these pieces. While in other moments they downsize […]
Matthias Lukoschek
Lukoschek’s photographs compose quiet, simple, and minimal scenes of barren landscapes. In many pieces there are only a few elements that compose the entire composition. The color palettes, as well, are simplistic, involving only a few colors, and sometimes even remain monochromatic. Many times Lukoschek’s landscapes are found covered in snow, blending the land with […]
