Author Archives: jolanta

In 1979, Sherrie Levine rephotographed a selection of 1930s images by Walker Evans from one of his catalogues. Her works, first shown in her exhibition After Walker Evans, was a florid action performed to invigorate a discourse about gender relations, in addition to investigating the lines drawn around both copyright law and institutional systems of […]

Justin Samson’s sculptures are eerily familiar—they remind me of the strange Native American sculptures I stumbled upon as a child, bewildered, in my aunt’s backyard. Detailed and colorful, his sculptures take the form of totems, or mysterious, boxy beings covered with tassels, strung with beads, and patterned with fur and textiles. The landscape that these […]

We can catalogue the backlist titles of James Everett Stanley’s solo exhibitions: There Were Giants in the Earth in Those Days, Salt of the Earth, and The Garden. Or consider even the titles, forgetting the paintings themselves: You And I Are Brothers, Be My Eyes and Ears, or My Only Brother, One of His Many […]

David Shapiro paints monochromatic watercolors from photographs culled from fashion publications and art historical plates of classical sculpture. They are delicately and meticulously rendered (to the point of disguising even the fact of brushstrokes) wash drawings of immediately recognizable and readily categorizable single figure subjects. The externals of Shapiro’s work go down so smoothly one […]

The room is dark and crowded. Nearly two hundred partygoers are divided in half by parallel rows of prayer candles on the floor, creating a dimly lit path to an unaccompanied drum set and guitar. The drunken commotion is interrupted with drearily elegiac Appalachian music, and the spectral emergence of a Reaper-like figure carrying a […]