Author Archives: jolanta
In and Out of History
My work derives from propaganda and other ideological sources. Since the late 1980s, I have made paintings and drawings based on images archived from advertisements, posters, “fine art” photographs, and tourist ephemera published under political movements ranging from the mid-1930s Nazi, WPA, and Stalinist “Five-Year Plan” tracts to current military recruiting and corporate Web-based “motivational” […]
Femininity in Renaissance
Femininity in photography is not what it used to be. It is no longer romantic or desirable. As women, it seems that cotemporary images found in fashion and fine art are created to make us feel less than adequate. I yearn for the time when sensuality and grace could be found in subtle incarnations rather […]
Image Manipulation
Ripped and Torn is an arcade of unique artworks that appear to be sliced and diced with a scalpel, torn and ripped by hand, and assembled from non-logical parts by 24 whimsical artists who set out to create the aesthetic illusion of a magical world conjured up from the depths of their subconsciousness. Today collage […]
Handmade Landscapes
Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival entitled APAture features the work of emerging Asian Pacific American artists that live and/or work in the San Francisco Bay Area. This past fall APAture visual arts exhibition, Shifting Landscapes through the Labor of the Hand-Made, included a dynamic group of 20 artists practicing in a variety of […]
Traversing Wilderness
This past October, Mahan Gallery presented an exhibition of paintings, drawings, photography, and collage by nine globally recognized artists who share a strong interest in symbolical narrative. The exhibition functioned as a survey of mountainous aesthetics, simultaneously exploring the fables, folklores, and assumed simulations of the mountain by the artists or interpretation of the curator, […]
Stefan Raasch
Prozac, Nylon, Teflon, and Porno—No regret about what has gone and never turns back? Prozac, Nylon, Teflon, and Porno—No regret about what has gone and never turns back? The natural world has changed against an artificially made one. But sometimes it works as well or maybe even better then it did in former times…or […]
Stefan Raasch
Prozac, Nylon, Teflon, and Porno—No regret about what has gone and never turns back? Prozac, Nylon, Teflon, and Porno—No regret about what has gone and never turns back? The natural world has changed against an artificially made one. But sometimes it works as well or maybe even better then it did in former times…or […]
Catherine de Saugy
Catherine de Saugy’s artwork is painted on canvas, photographed and then digitally treated. Catherine de Saugy Catherine de Saugy’s artwork is painted on canvas, photographed and then digitally treated. The final surrealist abstract composition is realized with inks on the back of Plexiglas. (…) Depth of field’s effects and the return of luminous brilliance […]
Playing Wire
In light of the wonderful works on display from the Whitney and the Pompidou museums, which hold the two largest bodies of Alexander Calder’s work in public collections, no one will be disappointed. A quality of over-cautious linearity in the installations and uninspired lighting are the main flaws in this show, which travels to the […]
Into the Wild
I am very interested in human awareness and the various processes of visual perception. I am currently producing images influenced by the occurrence of inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, which is the phenomenon of not being able to see things that are actually there. This can be a result of having no internal […]
