Author Archives: jolanta

Wu Rijin, one of the main representatives of super-form visual art, recently finished a set of works entitled “City Series.” Using new visual language, and themes such as co-existing, restraining, destroying, and altering, this set of works concerns the excessiveness of contemporary culture. Combining signs of the city and the wolf totem—representing civilization counterbalancing nature […]

Chris Johanson: When I first saw your work, I saw the little handmade books with complicated folds made out of fragile paper, and stencils that were painted on the sidewalks. Jo Jackson: I was so shy about making art. Everything was about being tiny and enfolded or authorless in the night. I was working in […]

I’m very attracted to the space within language where the ordinary meanings of words shift and suddenly we’re in new territory we couldn’t have dreamt of. The title of this painting comes from a Wallace Stevens poem with the line, “How clean the sun when seen in its idea”—possibly meaning that in making art, it’s […]

Somewhere between the shrouded depths of color and mended layers of texture lies the expression of energy, freed from rational control, and yet still clinging to the outline of a simple object. Automatic drawing and action painting developed by the Surrealists and Abstract Expressionist movements were in essence, journeys into the chaotic subconscious and the […]

Larry Carlson: As artists who use the assemblage process, we both sample fragments from the world of media streaming around us. I spend a lot of time collecting images, sounds, and videos on the internet as well as thrift stores and garbage cans. This process of searching for and categorizing media samples is an important […]