Author Archives: jolanta

I combine the twisting and reconfiguring of (mainly) plastic and metal found objects, with improvised bulbous hand-sculpted abstract forms made up of pigmented resin, fiberglass, paint and polyurethane foam. The intersection of the squeezed, bulbous, and almost cartoonish forms, with the cut scrambled plastic and metal, creates the exact tension I seek; a pathetic, goofy […]

The city is a place where buildings furiously propagate. In China, it is almost like a carnival. All kinds of unthinkable new buildings gather from all over the world, to compensate the desires of a newly rising powerful country, to satisfy a thirst for marvelous spectacles. I’ve combined these buildings from various places with other […]

The most immediately striking piece in "Unraveling Identities" was the video work of Akiko Kikuchi, projected in an elegant mirrored box on the floor. Kikuchi’s work is highly graphic—black and white—and this particular piece examines clusters of people separating and re-integrating into a crowd formation. The mirrored installation box created multiple dimensions in a fishbowl […]

Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, I was an only child who from an early age found escape through my drawings. Standard elementary school was replaced by boarding school and high school by a Southern Baptist military academy. I soon realized in these environments that the only way to find oneself was through one’s creations.   […]

On a jam-packed subway ride one morning, a Muslim woman in head-scarf-to-covered-toe black sat pressed against a blonde babe in seersucker and Sperry Top-siders. Simultaneously, writers at USA Today churned out a story on Taco Bell’s new launch in downtown Shanghai.   Julia V. Bainbridge Making a Home Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York was […]

A timeless and human quest: to understand our own mortality. We leave behind markers of time, then scrawl and shade and blur those marks. A specific task it is, to render the unknown, death: how we understand our idea of life, how we digest violence and loss.   Jessica Minckley Jessica Minckley is the curator […]

The Daadgalerie is one of the German capital’s few non-commercial spaces showing contemporary art made in Berlin. As part of the DAAD Artist-in-Residence program, Guy Ben-Ner has written, produced, directed and starred in (along with his family) the artistic short film entitled Stealing Beauty.   Guy Ben-Ner Guy Ben-Ner is an Israeli artist living in […]