Author Archives: jolanta
Tomashi Jackson
She is exhibiting at the Broadway Gallery until March 15th. Tomashi Jackson She is exhibiting at the Broadway Gallery until March 15th.
Beauty is Only Skin Deep
I’m a New York-based artist working in video and photography. I started my studies at Marymount Manhattan in film and video, and transferred to the School of Visual Arts to focus on photography, without abandoning my interest in film. I started with black-and-white photography that I often ended up hand coloring and so eventually switched […]
Susan Lee-Chun
I work in an interdisciplinary manner. My interests in the relationship between identity and place manifest themselves in a body of work that incorporates performance, video, and installations. Fascinated with the power of humor and its capability to grab the attention of a wider audience, I employ a tongue-in-cheek style in my work. However, the […]
Yuliya Lanina
“Like the Chapmans and Caine, there is an irreverence and dark humor that runs throughout Lanina’s work. She delivers a punked out, pre-pubescent ‘Boschian’ universe, one for the morally relativistic set.” Pre-pubescent Bosch Carla Gannis The Mechanical Dolls of Yuliya Lanina were on view at Scope Miami 2007 Yuliya Lanina, Lullaby. Courtesy of the […]
Model Minority
Wearing a pair of baggy jeans, a khaki shirt, and a military green cap, Koba dropped the lines of his song “Rise Up Move” at the Five Points (formerly Teabag,) an independent arts organization in China Town, New York City: “Rise up like global warming / Like a new morning / This is our warning, […]
A Saccharin Sacrifice
The Georgian splendor of Asia House in London’s West End recently played host to the work of the 40 year old Burmese artist, Htein Lin. Lin was an established comic, performance artist, and contemporary artist before his arrest in 1998 by the Orwellian sounding S.L.O.R.C. or State Law and Order Restoration Council, and given a […]
Whitney Biennial 2008
“When work on the wall in the Biennial can simultaneously be found in a Chelsea gallery, as is the case with Seth Price’s wood wall pieces, which are concurrently on view at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, the exhibition feels more like P.S. 1’s Greater New York than a truly national sampling.” Expanded Walls, Expanded Practices […]
March 7, 2008
NY Arts + Art Fairs International: The Daily Newsletter Friday, March 7 Women Artists Show in Rare Afghanistan Exhibition; Bjork backs Tibet on Shanghai stage; Hamlet-Inspired; False To see the NY Arts Newsletter in Chinese please click here International Top News Women Artists Show in Rare Afghanistan Exhibition A rare exhibition of work exclusively by […]
Hamlet-Inspired
Catherine Yu-Shan Hsieh: Last fall you had your first solo show The Girls Show Dostoyevsky the New Darkness at Marvelli Gallery in New York City. How did that feel? How did the audience receive it? Margaux Williamson: It felt ok. Growing up, I saw art mainly in art books, or Laurie Anderson at the hippy […]
False
The exhibition False, organized by Platform China, talks about the spread of falseness as an active element in our life. In contemporary China, as the pace of the society development is increasing, people feel the need to use culture-related things to guard themselves against the tide of this development, which breeds a pseudo-culture. As people […]
