Author Archives: jolanta
Molding the Maternal
The Hardcore Art Contemporary Space in Miami presented the work of Grimanesa Amorós in the exhibition You Cannot Feel it…I Wish You Could. This multimedia exhibition was a combination of sculpture, lighting and music composed by the nine-time Grammy nominated musician, Meshell Ndegeocello. Eleven handmade paper sculptures cast from the artist’s pregnant body explore the […]
Lost Speech
The utopian promise of improvement celebrated during the heyday of modernity has devolved in the postmodern digital age to a detachment from real life and lived experience. The discontent that underlies the generations born into the fast-faced contemporary world has become the main subject of my work. My series Aphasia explores these feelings of alienation […]
Into the Wild
My photographs fuse a gothic sensibility with performative elements and traditional landscape imagery, in order to explore the metaphoric potential of the environment. My most recent project was shot while on solitary kayaking and hiking trips along the Delaware River Valley, using a medium format camera and basic camping supplies. In many works, traces of […]
SFMOMA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a dynamic center for modern and contemporary art. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a dynamic center for modern and contemporary art. The Museum strives to engage and inspire a diverse range of audiences by pursuing an innovative program of exhibitions, education, publications, and […]
Stark Museum of Art
The Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas, houses one of the nation’s most significant collections of American Western art. The Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas, houses one of the nation’s most significant collections of American Western art. www.starkmuseum.org
The Rise and Fall
In 1946, when Chairman Mao’s forces broke their truce with Chiang Kai-Shek’s and began battling once again for political control of the country, no one in China could have predicted what their homeland would look like 60 years later: a landscape where high-rise apartments are steadily replacing old family compounds, where newly purchased cars are […]
East Turned West
For his fourth exhibition at New York’s Lehmann Maupin Gallery, photographer Juergen Teller presented his recent body of work entitled Ukraine. Along with four other artists, Teller was commissioned by the PinchukArtCentre to interpret the country for the 52nd International Venice Biennale 2007, where a selection from this series was first shown. The New York […]
Best in Show
The first time I went to a reenactment pageant, I didn’t know exactly what I was going to see, but I had been told that people in a small town in Wyoming had been dressing up like settlers and Indians, and acting out a story from the pioneer era since the 1940s. I decided to […]
Leonardo Cremonese
Leonardo Cremonese is a Brazilian-born abstract painter based in Sydney, Australia. Leonardo’s practice is informed by the teachings Leonardo Cremonese Leonardo Cremonese is a Brazilian-born abstract painter based in Sydney, Australia. Leonardo’s practice is informed by the teachings of the Brazilian anarchist, Roberto Freire, and by the Dionysian religion of ancient Greece. He embraces abstraction […]
When Paint Came to Its Own
Expectation is seldom a good idea. I arrived at John Alexander’s retrospective at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts without prior knowledge of his work except for a few five-inch-sized reproductions I’d seen on Artnet.com. (True to my generation, I am an unabashed participant in the magical method of “just google it.”) Online I saw […]
