Author Archives: jolanta
Bonnie Brown
Bonnie Brown’s paintings have developed into a highly personal visual language of her own; she explores her surfaces through texture, pattern and colour. Bonnie Brown Bonnie Brown’s paintings have developed into a highly personal visual language of her own; she explores her surfaces through texture, pattern and colour. The poetry of her recent work is […]
Freddy Flores Knistoff
The paintings of Flores Knistoff are highly originals. He blows up a constelation of new kind of figures, colours and armony by automatic actions. Freddy Flores Knistoff The paintings of Flores Knistoff are highly originals. He blows up a constelation of new kind of figures, colours and armony by automatic actions. As well his work […]
Catching Moonbeams in Water – Leng Lin on Song Dong at the Beijing Commune
Song Dong has been making art for over ten years now. Ever since his work Another Lesson, Do You Want to Play with Me?, Song Dong has been actively participating in the contemporary art movement in China. In this work integrating installation, video, painting and performance, Song Dong combined his creative abilities while also fully […]
Sungmi Lee – Anne Swartz
Korean by birth, Korean-American by circumstance, Lee resides in a conceptual space between Korea and America. Her art is “diaristic,” she says, a mode she adopted in an attempt to nurture herself when she did not have a nurturer available. Her autobiography, however, is the element that ultimately infiltrates her seemingly reductive work. This narrative […]
Dominique Labauvie: The Ides of March – Megan Voeller
You might be surprised to find French artist Dominique Labauvie exhibiting in Tampa. After all, the Strasbourg native has been firmly established—with many solo and group shows and public commissions—for nearly 30 years in his home country and throughout Europe, where he is known for metal sculptures, prints and drawings of his graceful, abstract figures. […]
Nicola Parente
Nicola Parente creates expressive abstract paintings from his studio in Houston, Texas. Born in Italy, he draws from a rich Italian heritage and a deep well of cross-cultural experiences to bring his art to life. Working in a variety of media and formats, Parente engages the viewer in dialogues regarding the universal phenomenon of human […]
Natalie Czech – Alix Rule
If you’re making contemporary music, it doesn’t matter how big you are, you can’t not have a Myspace page. That the internet has profoundly changed the way music is made today is so evident that it’s almost embarrassing to state it. The availability of a huge archive of content online and cheap editing software, along […]
Sarah Sze – Elizabeth Fodde-Reguer
Batteries, pasta, cables, Q-tips, pencils, chopsticks, gum, nails, birth control pills, towels, ribbons, toothpicks, cans, candy, razors, straws—the list of materials in a Sarah Sze installation would take up most of this article. Sze chooses materials that are all variations on the same theme—the flotsam and jetsam of a modern capitalist lifestyle. They are the […]
Peter Bahouth
We live in a three-dimensional environment. We can perceive depth because, when each eye sees a slightly different version of the same image, the brain combines both views into a single, three-dimensional “stereo” picture. It is a relatively simple process, one that stereoscopic photography, the method I use to make images, can successfully mimic by […]
Andrew Jungeâs American Detritus – Megan Voeller
Basel-madness may have come and gone from Florida in a single month, but an East Coast debut at SCOPE Miami was just the beginning of a longer road trip for one work of art. Andrew Junge’s Styrofoam Hummer (American Detritus), a piece that has made the 39-year-old artist a minor celebrity on the San Francisco […]
