Author Archives: jolanta
Hughie O’Donoghue
I am immersed in the culture of painting and its potential for alchemical transformation. Central to the content of these recent works is the readability of the imagery. For these works, I have used photography as a component of the picture making process. The photographic element has a skin-like quality, which is physically integrated into […]
Cang Xin
It has been 14 years since I engaged myself in performance art. The ultimate goal of performance art is to break the boundaries between art and life, to propose new visions and concepts. Chinese contemporary art has been evolving for the past thirty years, making its fair share of contributions to the global cultural scene. […]
Whitney McVeigh and Pascal Demeester
"It is this truth and brutality that make images that startle the viewer. Unlike the Surrealists, who directed their attention to creating a new visual vocabulary in order to elucidate traditional meanings, McVeigh’s images are pure inventions replete with new understandings." Whitney McVeigh and Pascal Demeester at the Gallery Soho, London Suzie Walshe An […]
Looking for the Most Beautiful Bride in the World
There are many kinds of painters. Some paint what they see. Others paint how they feel. Jia Qiong, of one kind, is always looking for life, memories, and fantasies in the paintings that he makes. His life, he says, is an unending quest. In One Hundred Years of Solitude—his favorite book—there is a sentence: getting […]
Never for Sale
I am originally from the Chicago where I attended the Art Institute of Chicago for my BFA and MFA. At the time, I was studying painting and drawing, but quickly evolved as a visual artist from a “photo realistic” style into what would later become mostly multi-media installations. Ellen Levin is a New York-based artist-activist. […]
From Test of Rebirth to The New Renascent Bronze Age
With the demise of British colonial rule, people of Hong Kong began to reflect upon the place they lived. Standing at the meeting point of Chinese and Western cultures, they are lost in their own culture and history. A sense of loss haunts their minds. Since the 90s, many Hong Kong artists, including myself, have […]
Cai Guo-Qiang
I would like to believe that the title Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe conveys the spirit of my art, as well as my identity as an artist. As this is a retrospective exhibition, apart from being an overall view of over 20 years of my artistic practice, the works themselves resonate with the title […]
Testimony to War: Art from the Battlegrounds of Iraq
“We are frequently reminded that we are a nation at war. So should we not know what this war actually looks like?” Testimony to War: Art from the Battlegrounds of Iraq Francis Di Tommaso Francis Di Tommaso, the director of the Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts, curated Testimony to War: […]
Zhang Peng
Art is not limited to any particular media. You can use many techniques to express an idea. I use photography because I often have ideas that I think would be lost in the process of painting. I began to like photography when I was young and began creating photographs in March 2006. Many people told […]
Pash Buzari at Universal Studios-Beijing
As the title suggests, Sites, Routes and Traces is an exhibition concerned with place and the effects of placement. Conceived for the simultaneous staging of three solo positions in a 4000-square-meter gallery space, the exhibition was itself re-sited to Universal Studios’ auxiliary space when it became clear that the main gallery would be under renovation […]
