Author Archives: jolanta

My artwork deals with different recording and collecting cultures, ranging from taxonomic forms of documentation to casual snapshots. I view my practice itself, a practice predicated on the labor-intensive re-recording of photographic information using manual means, as the manifestation of a recording impulse. I am also a habitual collector of images. The criteria I use […]

“A good question should avoid an answer at all costs.” is presented to us in gold letters, letting us know in advance that only open endings are allowed in this exhibition, histories with undefined limits as life itself. Dora García rescues the characters of a last paragraph so that they may live their own existence, […]

Power and the poetry of money, the increasingly narrower latitude available for political action, the role of the self-generating war, the iciness of society, the execution of nature—these are the themes to which Malachi Farrell draws our eye, as well as to a bunch of cables, hoses, aluminum sheets, contraptions, and electronic parts everywhere, to […]

Marnie Weber: The Truth Speakers, The Sea of Silence is Simon Lee Gallery’s first solo show of Marnie Weber, an L.A.-based artist and musician. This multifaceted exhibition of film, sculpture, and collage immerses the viewer in the uncanny world of Weber’s imagination. The central focus of the show is the new film, The Sea of […]

The Super 8 films were made in the 1970s, shot as a parallel activity to my studio work and my drawing practice. With these films, my artistic output was enriched with an entirely fresh visual vocabulary, a product of hands-on reflection that intended to resist whatever was being imposed and established by the military dictatorship […]

Violence, in the most general sense of the word, has been a common subject to be studied, analyzed, and represented throughout art history. From Ribera to Tarantino or Günter Brus, it has been expressed in such different ways, but in rare occasions the result might be an affable image. Although the work of Carlos Aires […]

I identify my art practice in three key elements: experiencing space, materiality, and rethinking the context of space. I am interested in exploring the ideas of experiencing space in relation to psychological sensation that are involved in certain activities or in visual forms. This form of interaction reflects the structure or systems of contemporary world […]

I came of age as an artist and filmmaker with the punk movement in the late 70s, making Super 8 films of my friends and family and various local celebrities in Pittsburgh, PA. The countercultural impulses and progressive energies of that era continue to inform my work and method. Horror films, low-budget exploitation films, and […]

My work has always represented human situations through the use of anthropomorphic paintings. I discovered that once you break or distort paintings, they have a language of their own. Ashamed, A Broken Painting Makes a Reverence, and Homeless (1995-6) were the first broken paintings I made. I found it easier to express feelings of some […]