Author Archives: jolanta

I love mixing it up. I don’t care where my bits of imagery, paint strokes or techniques come from—once I set them on the canvas, they’re mine and I own them. I have an “everything goes” attitude when it comes to painting. I want it to be inclusive and democratic. Everything can have its say […]

It was around the time the movie The Happening came out when the interview with artist Roxy Paine took place. He had just returned from Art Basel earlier in June, where his latest piece, Inversion, was on view at the entrance to the fair. The Happening, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is about how nature, […]

I did this shoot for Vice Magazine’s 2008 fashion issue.  I’d wanted to do an anti-fashion shoot for some time, one in which all the clothes were worn incorrectly or used in a manner considered offensive.  For months, a post-it with "shove expensive clothes up someone’s butt" sat on my monitor. The editor at Vice […]

With a body of work that spans over 35 years and ranges from early conceptual pieces to later works that include artificial intelligence robots and experimental films, Hershman Leeson is one of the most influential artists working in new media today. Updating Marchel Duchamp’s notion of “readymades,” Found Objects is a new series that displays […]

The images I’m driven to make are often a mystery, even to myself. Impressions, feelings and ideas come to me unexpectedly. When I meet people and hear their stories, I’m fascinated and left with a desire to explore what can happen between us in front of the camera. Forests, created sets, and nightscapes are the […]

There are more women working in the contemporary photography world than ever before. Their methods and subjects run the gamut of artistic possibility, but what unites them is the passion and effort they devote to creating extraordinary bodies of work. Women in Photography, a new online venue created by Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips, is […]

We honor music as a vibration that cannot be captured or recorded; it exists in an independent and ephemeral moment reliant upon the environment and the people within it. During our performances we create a group mind shared by both the animate and inanimate objects within an area. We do this through the use of […]

Catherine Y. Hsieh: How long have you been doing Chinatown Garbage Tour? Nate Hill: The tour has been going on since July of last year. CH: What made you decide to do such a project? NH: It was to teach people about my art and how they could do it themselves. I was trying to […]

Past-Forward brings together 29 international contemporary artists whose works manipulate, replay, and disrupt borrowed structures from mass culture, media, art history and industry. The artists in Past-Forward question the means and ends of artistic production in the face of an increasingly globalized culture. Appropriation, quotation, re-contextualization and revision are common techniques in the works, alternately […]

When I was a child my grandmother would take me fishing by the steel mills in Baltimore. Sometime around noon the fish would stop biting and I would pace the lengths of the pier with her camera making photographs of jellyfish and minnows. Weeks later, she would scold me for wasting film when the prints […]