Author Archives: jolanta
ââ¬ËSweetââ¬â¢ Child oââ¬â¢ Mineââ¬âFay Ku and her gang of innocent violence
Gillian Sneed: In the Floating Worlds exhibition, both you and Japanese photographer Kanako Sasaki explored dream-like/childhood worlds and you both have discussed a sense of displacement from your family’s culture and history. How do you use your work as a way to establish connections to your past? Fay Ku: I can’t separate the past from […]
Richard Hoey
Inspired by ancient art and their textures which are imperfect and variegated, combined with his love of modernism which is polished and smooth, artist Richard Hoey combines simple form and textures through his unique skill of layering metal leaf, earth pigments, plaster, and waxes. Inspired by ancient art and their textures which are imperfect and […]
Allan Kaprow at Deitch Studios
The second installment of the New York-based biennial of performance art, PERFORMA, took place this past November at various locations throughout the city. The brainchild of the eminent performance art scholar and curator, RoseLee Goldberg, PERFORMA boasted a tremendous program of performances, exhibitions, films, lectures, and symposia. Gillian Sneed The work of Allan Kaprow, the […]
Thomas Ruff at David Zwirner Gallery
With his new body of work entitled Jpeg at David Zwirner, Thomas Ruff continues his engagement with the production of images in the Internet age. Named after the compression files for Internet images that Ruff mines from the web, the ongoing series explores how these online pictures are perceived by the public. He locates the […]
Jeff Gordon on Bob Dylan
Expression—artistic expression—is a common enough trait in New York City. Not that location defines creativity, hardly. But New York can “’stamp”’ art as either getting through the gate or getting banished to the land of obscurity. It’s interesting then, that the first museum exhibition of Bob Dylan’s paintings was held in a small German city. […]
Beate Landen
Beate Landen was born in Ludwigshafen Germany. After studying painting at UCLA she joined Bad Reichenhall Art Academy… Beate Landen Beate Landen was born in Ludwigshafen Germany. After studying painting at UCLA she joined Bad Reichenhall Art Academy working with Prof Markus Lüpertz and Prof. Herman Nitsch, while working as a studio assistant forProfessor […]
Adrian Garcia
My paintings reflect my feelings, my mood. As usual, to express something bad is easier than to express something good. Adrian Garcia My paintings reflect my feelings, my mood. As usual, to express something bad is easier than to express something good. We tend to be negative; I tend to be negative. My colors, textures […]
Michael Bell-Smith talks to Rebecca Gordon
Rebecca Gordon: I am watching your video Electricity in the Air (American Beauty) as we speak. I see a digitalized recreation of the definitive scene in the 1999 film American Beauty, in which a plastic bag dances in a winter wind against a brick wall. In your video, the bag and the wall fill the […]
An Interview with painter Conor McGrady
Leah Oates: When did you know you where an artist? What do you think an artist is now that you have been one for many years? Conor McGrady: A definitive moment was when I started primary school and the class was asked to produce self-portraits. The sense of achievement and accomplishment that I felt upon […]
Skye Thorstenson talks to Jenn Norton
Skye Thorstenson: In regards to the grotesque, I’m not sure how to talk about that. I don’t actively seek out taboo topics or try to solidify the grotesque. Normally what I plan to do is a bland reiteration of something—a memory, a scene from a TV show, or film that sticks with me. I think […]
