Author Archives: jolanta

The exhibition, Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008, co-presented by the MCA and the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, explores Italian art and creativity from the late 1960s to the present. It offers an unprecedented look at the artistic production of a country where cultural change has often been defined by the persistence of the […]

Charlie White’s work explores the overlap of the liminal space of adolescence and American consumer culture, and implies that this world cuts to the cultural core of a society shaped by capitalist greed. His latest photographic and video work focuses largely on the life of the teenage American girl, and grapples with pop culture (or […]

In 1979 I painted about 40 hummingbirds on exterior locations in lower Manhattan. An experience I’ve never recovered from. Every year I do another street project but I don’t think I’ll ever get to the bottom of the possibilities I stumbled upon with those birds. For years I engaged in a pretty standard street art […]

Composed with the intent to create a sort of survival guide for humanity, Federico Diaz’s collection of work for his exhibition Adhesion at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, explores relationships between the natural world and our ever-evolving manufactured world, through a range of different mediums, all asserting a heavy inference of one side outweighing the other. In […]

Leah Oates: When did you know you would be a photographer?Will Steacy: There was a single experience in my life which had the most profound effect on me and from that night on, I vowed to devote my life to this thing inside me. In 2003 I was almost murdered in a robbery. I was […]

I’m Nigel Tomm—the most famous artist in the world. Some blah had already blah the blah by blah blah, and blah its blah by the blah that blah, blah blah, and all my blah, save blah who blah to tell the blah, had been blah to blah at the blah of the blah by a […]

In the past few years, the majority of my work and research has been dealing with the domestic sphere and how it can act as a microcosm for the nation-state and society. I am interested in how the family, especially under circumstances of war, can learn to re-enact the trauma of political violence within the […]

Green Oregon actually started out as Keep Oregon Green, and was originally a collaboration with the Keep Oregon Green Association, a 150-year-old wildfire prevention group operating out of Salem, Oregon. As an Oregon native I have grown up seeing Keep Oregon Green’s iconic fir tree shaped road signs on trips to Mt. Hood or the […]