Author Archives: jolanta
Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas Presenter Location Press Release Online Review Contacts Artist Marlene Dumas Harriet Zinnes There is a difficulty in viewing the artwork of Marlene Dumas. Questions arise. What is pornography? What is nude? What is naked? All images are courtesty of MOMA. How does the reliance on the photograph as an almost exclusive source material […]
UNNATURAL ACTS and Other Illicit Thoughts about Nature
UNNATURAL ACTS and Other Illicit Thoughts about Nature Presenter Location Press Release Curator Contacts Artist Broadway Gallery, January 2, 2009-January 15, 2009 Chris Twomey As organizer of “Broadthinking; UNNATURAL ACTS and Other Illicit Thoughts about Nature” my main interest was to showcase artists whose work contains inventive content (Broadthinking is not afraid of content) related […]
Seeing the World as Sculpture
Seeing the World as Sculpture Presenter Location Press Release Online Review Contacts Artist Isamu Noguchi at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park By Edward Rubin Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi’s (1904-88) philosophy of life and artistic output are so intricately intertwined that it is near impossible to think of them separately. All images are courtesty of Yorkshire […]
The Endurance of Language
An abundance of conceptually informed exhibitions opened in New York in the space of three days at the end of October 2008, buoying the spirits in the wake of collapsing world economies. Consider that art is a language, intentions and materials, techniques, historical referents, among its parameters. The relational aesthetics, demonstrated by a core group […]
Backyard Adventures
The Adventure series was inspired from a commission to shoot nudes. Never having approached the subject matter prior to the assignment, I knew only that I would want to photograph my subjects in natural landscapes as opposed to the comfortable confines of the indoors. However, simply photographing a person nude in the great outdoors was […]
Pensive States
Pensive States Presenter Location Press Release Online Review Contacts Artist Philosophic Pondering Simone Cappa Pensive States, a show at Broadway Gallery December 1st – 10th, 2008 Pensive States, one of Broadway Gallery’s more compelling recent shows featured an impressive roster of internationally-acclaimed artists working in a variety of media and styles. According to curator Christina […]
Still Life In Motion: Corin Hewitt
Still Life in Motion Presenter Location Press Release Online Review Contacts Artist Still Life in Motion Corin Hewitt on view October 3, 2008 — January 4, 2009 at the Whitney Museum. His new work also elegantly refers to Roland Barthes’s theories on photography, time, space, image, and object, as investigated in his seminal text Camera […]
Southern Tongue
León Ferrari and Mira Schendel are considered among the most significant artists working in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century. Their works address language as a major visual subject matter: the visual body of language, the embodiment of voices as words and gestures, and language as a metaphor of the worldly […]
Aural Interventions
When we think of sculpture, we think of physical descriptors—terms like mass, weight, extension, and surface area. We envision objects that take up space and occupy three measurable dimensions. From the mammoth to the miniscule, the figural to the architectural, we all know that sculpture takes up space. But just how it goes about occupying […]
Spiritual Spoofing
Gong Jian: What was the motivation for these works you’ve brought to the exhibition? Huang Yang: There are three elements: first, it is a continuation of the methods used in my previous work Bible, but adding sound and form. Second, it is a small appreciation of things in everyday life, specifically the whistle that sounds […]
