Author Archives: jolanta
Visual Mind Games
A recent group show at The Broadway Gallery NYC in Soho brings together a diverse group of artists from around the world. The exhibition, which features Carmen Delaco, Piero Golia, Ioanna Voskou, Michel Blouin, Peter Mueller, and Ingrid Stiehler, explores ludic expressions, as seen from both figurative and abstract perspectives. Exploiting the psychological tension between […]
Femininity Through a Lens
My primary intent as an artist is to hold up a mirror to my audience. Not the kind of mirror that shows the lumps and bumps in life, therefore causing one to turn away in disgust, but one that allows a person to look deeper, to stop, reflect, and then to adjust their notion of […]
Omens of Life and Death
Two girls are leaning against a large tree, an intravenous drip in their arms. They are passing anxious days, threatened by a looming death. In Japan, Web sites seeking suicide mates are spreading; boys and girls with the mutual wish to kill themselves are prevalent, and increasing. Consequently, this has become a social problem. Ai […]
Manifesta 7: From Residue, Resurrection
“The future is the obsolete in reverse.”—Vladimir Nabokov Following on the heels of the failed Manifesta 6, in Nicosia, Cypress, cancelled due to political disagreements between curators and local organizers, this year’s Manifesta 7 spans four cities of an entire region. This is a first in the history of this nomadic European biennial of contemporary […]
Elena Osterwalder
Elena Osterwalder was born and raised in Mexico and now lives in Columbus Ohio. In her recent work, Osterwalder turns to pre-Hispanic Elena Osterwalder Elena Osterwalder was born and raised in Mexico and now lives in Columbus Ohio. In her recent work, Osterwalder turns to pre-Hispanic methods of producing organic dyes to create natural […]
Urban Snapshots
This is an age of imagery. We see a great number of pictures every day. People want better and better quality for the images they see. The more exaggerative, the more exciting, the more sensational the image is, the better. However, if an artist creates an image solely for the sake of getting attention, without […]
The Illusive Lure
Drawing on theoretical discourse related to the semantics of desire and difference, curator Basak Malone constructs a platform for multiple investigations of liminal space through Lure, recently presented at Broadway Gallery in SoHo. Reinterpreting classic texts from French structuralist and post-structuralist theory, Malone skillfully orchestrates a compelling constellation of works by a group of serious […]
Prying Eyes
My pictures are far from being documentary photographs or snapshots. However, I make them for much the same reason that people take pictures of historic events or their travels or a child’s first steps: to bear witness, to remember, to say, “This is special. I was there. This is what I saw.” This desire to […]
Mara Corfini
What does art want? To express the inexpressible and to communicate what is impossible to communicate? Mara Corfini What does art want? To express the inexpressible and to communicate what is impossible to communicate? Mara Corfini is a dynamic artist who utilizes the enigmatic and elusive questions that surround contemporary art in order to […]
Forces of Nature
A painter passionately committed to exploring the inherent properties, color and plasticity of her medium, Irene Neal’s ardor for paint is evident in her remarkable solo at the Huitai Art Centre, in Tianjin, China. The exhibition will showcase Neal’s free-form abstracts—incredibly fluid, vibrant, and intensely colorful works on canvas and wood until the end of […]
