Author Archives: jolanta
A Terrorist’s Reliquary
In our post-9/11 world, we are saturated by images of torture, both by our enemies and by our own government. Terror is pervasively present in the visual environment: stories from Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers, reports on the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and images of Abu Ghraib, have become a part of our collective […]
Transformed Imagery
Since the very beginning and until today, Ange Leccia’s work has taken up residence at the margins of reality, not far enough out to be absurd, but just beyond the ordinary, in other words, right where a view can become an image. Images, what’s more, were always what Leccia was about, who got his first […]
Kari Middelthon
I paint in an abstract-figurative way with vivid colors that contrast together strongly. As a Norwegian painter I am specially occupied with the blue light that my country Kari Middelthon I paint in an abstract-figurative way with vivid colors that contrast together strongly. As a Norwegian painter I am specially occupied with the blue light that my […]
Make Yourself at Home
When I photograph, I try to incorporate experimentation, discarded trends, and a sense of story. My projects explore the relationship between subject and environment, holding reverence to the human condition. I am currently working on a project involving women, nude, in their homes. I started the series in the summer of 2007; the first “home […]
A Youth Documentary
At my age, what mix in our minds are a bizarre material world, a cruel reality, and impractical ideas. I always describe my feelings with a word “obsessed.” Everything confuses me, yet cannot stop me. In this fast-changing society, we are bereft of real life. I cannot avoid any kind of relationships, but interact with […]
Free From Desire
It doesn’t seem like a good idea for one to always talk about her work, especially when she talks to no one but her computer. But I still want to talk about my creative process, and things like emotions, time, flaws, and creativity. These phrases have been occupying my mind, like a shrub growing, and […]
Walking Williamsburg
ARTWALKING: Bedford Ave was curated by Eyewash founder and director Larry Walczak and independent curator Donna Kessinger. This exhibition, considered the largest public art installation of its kind in the borough of Brooklyn, ran from April 27 through June 8 and featured 30 artist installations in storefronts on Bedford Avenue, running from North 3rd to […]
Existential Interaction
New York avant-garde artist Barbara Rosenthal, an American art export with attitude, created her latest performance work, Existential Interact, in Berlin this summer. And she wasn’t the only American to choose this time and place to strut their stuff. Barack Obama came in July. Both Americans brought their national persona of self-invention, self-reliance, charisma, improvisation, […]
Walk the Line
My work stems from an interest and exploration of space, both physical and psychological. My current body of work is owed to an intense and persistent studio practice. Visually, the work is pared down. Excess marks and information have been stripped away; leaving only what is necessary to transport the viewer to an idealized place […]
Flowing Volatility
The creative process requires an artist to do experiments continually to invent the best conditions for the birth of art. At the same moment that a problem is successfully resolved, one discovers that a new problem immediately arises and follows. This continuous cycle of death and rebirth embodies the knowledge that I frequently apply and […]
