Author Archives: jolanta
Re-digesting Kitsch
D. Dominick Lombardi’s recent exhibition Toyota vs. Godzilla at ArtLexis in Brooklyn highlights the alternately political, prosaic, spiritual, and flamboyant methods by which life is experienced in Tokyo and Seoul. The exhibition exploits Lombardi’s own fluency in these multifarious forms of discourse, here painting and sculpture. They are the basis for his shrewd and penetrating […]
Andres Giles
Andrew Francis Giles was born in Buenos Aires on November 10, 1980. From an early age he was attracted by a noble profession: he decided to devote himself to painting. Self-taught, and great traveler, he travels to museums around the world: New York, Paris, London, Madrid, Rome, Berlin, where he studied the great masters of […]
Palettes of New York
The Broadway Gallery recently presented the vibrant work of the Italy-based artist Matthew Lauretti. At first glance, the art appeared unsubtle because of the riot use of colors and careening compositions that made the pieces feel cacophonous, feverish, and bursting with an over-the-top energy. But Lauretti wisely added visual and intellectual depth to the work […]
Six Feet Under
There is a difficulty in viewing the artwork of Marlene Dumas. Questions arise. What is pornography? What is nude? What is naked? How does the reliance on the photograph as an almost exclusive source material make authentic the complete realization of the art? Does the source lead to ambiguity? Is it all sex and skin? […]
