Author Archives: jolanta

The human condition has been the main source of motivation in my art. I draw from the human circumstances that flourish between reality and perception. Born and raised in Korean myth culture and adopting Buddhist philosophy, I assume that the world we are living in is not real. It is merely an illusion that we […]

I’m interested in strong contrasts–generally everywhere–in particular, in art. I really like to mix everything myself…in my mind, in my art. I’ve been interested in alchemy, occultism, and esotericism since I was young. I really like using sexual imagery, especially freakish dark sexual imagery in my artworks, because I like to play with all I […]

Not too many people remembered The Offs, the peripheral San Francisco cult punkers who made a few albums in the early 80s, until two of the band’s members died of heroin overdoses. If it were not for the fact that the group hung out with Jean Michel Basquiat–who desperately wanted to join the band in […]

Through drawing and film Erica Eyres invites the viewer into an uneasy world of disenchanted youth and beyond. Eyres is fascinated by the absurd and how we, as humans, react when faced with situations which generate conflicting emotions. Eyres creates characters from her shrewd observations of both daily life and the manufactured world of the […]

Morgan O’Hara has been developing her series of drawings, known as Live Transmissions, since 1982 and at BAM since the mid 1990s. These drawings, which the artist calls “time-based performances,” are created by tracking and recording the movements of her various subjects using pencil and paper. Over the years, O’Hara created some of the more […]