Author Archives: jolanta
American Indian Artists
IN/SIGHT 2010 A group show of contemporary art by American Indian Artists
The Beauty That Lies Beneath
French artist François Geffray is no stranger to new challenges. With an extensive array of mediums from digital art to painting, his body of work is vast and varied. It was with this continual sense of pushing himself in new directions that he was drawn to the NY Arts Venice Pavilion, where his works are […]
Window-dressing Art
Today we face a functional cultural industry whose substance is widely corrupted by greed of gain. The immense budgets film and music productions, and their interconnection with merchandising such as computer games and coffee cups, and media presence can hardly be opposed by freelance artists working on their own. I suggest that the advertising industry […]
Microscopic Vision
The inclination toward nothingness is unrelenting. There is a point at which sculpture, from antiquity for example, usually made of stone and left exposed to the elements is reclaimed as material, its social and cultural meaning worn away as representation fades. This is when sculpture is in a pure material state, and exposes a kind […]
A Dress-Up Party for Mom
Sometimes the planets’ line-up and the exploration of one’s artistic vision are a completely joyful, even miraculous, experience. The series, Arrangement in Green and Black: Portrait of the Photographer’s Mother, had serendipitous beginnings. I found a small print of Whistler’s painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother, at a neighborhood garage […]
Where the Wild Things Are
Leah Oates: What is your background, and when did you know you would be an artist?Jacob Hashimoto: Most of my childhood was spent in Walla Walla, a small silent town of farms and colleges in dusty southeastern Washington. My parents, who both worked at Whitman College, were always very supportive and interested in the arts, […]
