Author Archives: jolanta

A new breed of painting and photography, French artist Marie Péjouan’s work invites viewers to a world full of vibrant colors and mysterious visages. Péjouan gracefully incorporates picturesque elements into the photographs she takes—photographs that stand for a reality observed through her lens. The result is a representation that is dreamy, capricious, and out of […]

To exhibit something causes a break in reality. Suddenly, there is a stage where something is happening, a platform, a frame, and the display itself becomes just as prominent as the thing it’s displaying. Objects become a little strange when their relative autonomy is enforced. What interests me about the creation of genres is how […]

While British artist Richard Hoey’s paintings have the swirling energy of many abstract works, they also suggest something quite different: the murmuring of numerous voices beneath each layer. The artist’s work has changed greatly over the years, and is seldom truly abstract. He courageously goes beyond the given and familiar, pioneering new techniques and materials […]

Imagine driving down the interstate, gazing out of your vehicle’s window, watching images of trees, hills, and concrete whirl by. The soft blur of foliage, punctuated by guardrails and highway signage, blend into the road ahead. Whether landscape is seen through a train window or on the television, our physical contact with nature is lessened, […]

I attempt in my personal work to imply sexuality and sensuality rather than be explicit about it—how do I do this? It is the suggestiveness of a pose or relationship between people in my works, or the use of a title. In film its called the "montage technique" of putting 2 or 3 images together, […]

Upon seeing Karim Hamid’s work, I was reminded of Euan Uglow and R.B. Kitaj, two artists from the London School. I thought of Uglow because of the way both artists leave visible marks that show how the painting’s composition was formulated, and  I thought of Kitaj because of his distorted perspectives and odd anatomy, which […]

Australian multi-media artist Hilary Pollock is no stranger to new challenges. Having explored a vast array of media from etching to sculpture, her oeuvre is vast and varied. It was with this continual sense of pushing herself in new directions that she was drawn to the NY Arts Beijing residency in China, which she completed […]

Korean painter Shin Hye Park’s recent solo exhibition at New York’s Broadway Gallery can only be described as eloquent. A showcase for her ongoing series of carefully cropped vistas of ocean tides caressing sandy shores, the show evidenced a Zen-like sensibility in theme, style, and curatorial approach. The paintings themselves, almost obsessive in their unyielding […]

Graphic-novel styling meets fine-art sensibility in the work of Eve Poland, a UK-based painter and printmaker whose bold imagery celebrates sexual subcultures and feminine power. Eve Poland’s “kinky ladies” acrylic paintings celebrate the beauty and power of women through images intended to be both naughty and nice—an accessible, tongue-in-cheek take on erotic art. “The phrase […]