Author Archives: jolanta

Operating within an artistic climate in which both privilege of subject and indulgence in beauty are unusual, artist Gretchen Ryan has created a body of work that offers both in spades. Based in Los Angeles, Ryan recently made her New York debut at Fred Torres Collaborations, a nine-month-old exhibition space in Chelsea. Little Pretty, which […]

The Nordic Museum of Drawing in Laholm, Sweden, now introduces artist Sol Kjøk, born in 1968 in Lillehammer, Norway, now a long-time resident of Brooklyn, New York. The Norwegian artist has lived and worked in many different cities in Europe and the U.S. Her drawings speak an international language that can be understood in all […]

Gently bobbing among the waves of the Mediterranean, El Miraestels (The Stargazer) is a gigantic human figure staring up at the heavens even as he secretes a strange celestial object behind his back, the sparkling sun radiating from his white body, his legs spread in a V shape for balance atop a “weeble” that wobbles […]