Author Archives: jolanta
Radu Comsa
“Radu Comsa seems to distance himself of any obvious feeling, as a furious rationalist who is hiding an extreme sensibility. Radu Comsa “Radu Comsa seems to distance himself of any obvious feeling, as a furious rationalist who is hiding an extreme sensibility. His shapes are always an absolute novelty, hard to forget. Whether elastic […]
Giuseppe Denti
Giuseppe Denti was born in Cremona (Italy). A painter and engraver, he has recently turned his interests toward sculpture. Giuseppe Denti Giuseppe Denti was born in Cremona (Italy). A painter and engraver, he has recently turned his interests toward sculpture. After his figurative period he went on searching new forms and images that bring […]
Framed and Restored
Each of us sees things in our own unique way. We live in the same world, and are exposed to many of the same things. It’s how we see these things and how we respond to them; that’s what sets us apart. Damaged is a series of discarded, lost, unwanted dolls that have found their […]
Urbane Art
The Ohio State University (OSU) Urban Arts Space is an opportunity for the university and the community to challenge ways of thinking about the performing and visual arts and their role in everyday life through conversation and making. Located in the heart of downtown Columbus, the space bridges the university and the community. It is […]
Picture This
In one of her many meditations on the taking of pictures, Susan Sontag wrote that “all photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable — that is, unforgettable.” Annie Leibovitz, Sontag’s lover before her death in 2004, says she doesn’t really “have a single favorite photograph” among those she’s taken; it’s her body of work, […]
Dissecting Systems
Essentially abstract, yet evocative of webs, systems, and networks, my work bridges the organic and the technological. In the canvas works, intensive, hand-drawn, black-line drawings, and washes of earth-toned colors hover somewhere between the biological and the architectural. Expanding the idea of drawing into the third dimension, a dense, line-driven installation appears as though it […]
Linear Liberation
Creating large-scale, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors, Italian American artist Matthew Lauretti rarely presents an image of the complete human body. In his work, viewers often find only the face staring back at them—in some cases, simply a pair of eyes. The bodies inhabiting Lauretti’s more recent […]
Michael Mullaney
In my most recent work, I am searching for a personal pictorial language to concretize memory Michael Mullaney In my most recent work, I am searching for a personal pictorial language to concretize memory, dreams, and felt experience. My subconscious is allowed to play an integral role in the mark-making process. Automatic gesture, immediate […]
Faithful
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, an exhibition co-organized by the Menil Collection that brings together a multigenerational group of North, South, and Central American artists who address the value of ritual in the artistic process and the wider implications of spirituality in contemporary art. Including some 50 works of […]
Avant-Garde, Columbus Style
I moved to Columbus and opened the gallery in 1993. Although I was born here, I grew up in Northern California and studied art history in Paris. My first job was at Sotheby’s in New York, where I was introduced to the global art market. After a few years in Berlin, I decided to launch […]
