Author Archives: jolanta

Sometimes all a fledgling program needs is a little word-of-mouth. When the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards first started in 1923, the competition received just seven entries. 85 years later, over 100,000 entries were received, and the program had blossomed into the country’s most prestigious initiative for recognizing the talent of creative high school students. […]

Soft Logic represents my curatorial debut. As an artist and writer, putting together curatorial projects seemed like the logical next step. I seized the opportunity to employ a small project room at Broadway Gallery NYC as the site for a project I had been playing around with for a while. My idea was simple: I […]

If there is one question which John M Armleder cannot and does not want to answer, it’s the question: “what do you want people to see in your work?” Critics have lauded his masterful use of different media and the sophisticated abstraction that informs his artistic process, but Armleder himself seems to be more concerned […]

Flow, Broadway Gallery’s mid-summer group show organized by independent curator, Christine Kennedy, was a delightful example of the successful translation of a simple concept into a sumptuous and multilayered statement. Boasting a roster of remarkable international artists, including Cynthia Lawson Jarmillo, Ronda Johanessen, Beate Landen, Annie Leist, and Kirt Markle, Flow documents alternative interpretations of […]

I started out as a painter, drawn to the medium’s inherent plasticity, but eventually I began seeking more resistance and brittleness, so I started making installations of cheap everyday materials gleaned from my Brooklyn surroundings. Then, by turning to the medium of sound, I returned to fluidity. While visual art investigates the space between artist […]

In my photographs, I skate upon the friction between the rational and the emotional. A consistent engagement in this conflict of meaning has been propelling me forward since the beginning. What I’ve culled from this process is an idiosyncratic combination of the objective, documentary photography style characteristic of the Düsseldorf School (evidenced in my earlier […]

Though the artists in Lightness of Being work across media, one aspect of their practice, the medium of charged particles in light, has been highlighted in this exhibition to demonstrate the unique potential it has when manipulated by the creative mind. The play of light has been a mainstay of painting for hundreds of years. […]