Author Archives: jolanta

In two simultaneous shows, the St. Petersburg’s Arts Center, which divides its time and space between exhibiting local and member artists and organizing museum-grade shows of contemporary art, dips into the world of westerns. “The Wild Bunch: Cowboys in Contemporary Art” showcases cowboy kitsch in current paintings, sculpture and video by eight artists from around […]

Kerry Ware’s most recent exhibition at The Dorsch Gallery submerges the viewer in a realm of abstract seascapes. Inspired by electro-acoustic music, Ware’s conceptualized aesthetic unites the tangible and the intangible. Looking at his work, one can almost hear the staccato puncturing of the wooden dowels in the plaster panels, offset by the rhythmic flow […]

My camera’s viewfinder is a world of magic. When I look through it, everything changes and transforms into something different—lifeless things turn into living spirits, branches into arms of a ghost and people into scary souls and then I become someone different than who i was. Maybe I am a bird flying freely in the […]

So here’s my thing. I’m a lady who was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, with the exception of two years when I lived in Nevada as a child. I’m 37 and I live in South Philadelphia. I started to make photos when I was 30 because I was compelled to produce this long-term, gigantic-scale, […]

Victoria Mayer: How would you describe the main themes of your recent artworks?Tom Schmelzer: My art is about topics that are somewhat important to all of us: life and death, love and violence, truth, politics, religion, the environment. You’ve heard all of that before? It bores you? Well, this is why, in my work, you […]

SunTek Chung’s elaborately staged photographs are brilliant send-ups of cultural clichés, but with an edge. Populated by a variety of classic Asian and American stereotypes, his scenarios break open such contrived depictions by synthesizing numerous Eastern and Western social signifiers in order to demonstrate that stereotypes, whatever form they come in, can just as easily […]

“It is thus that we are warned at each step of our nothingness, man goes to meditate on the ruins of emptiness, he forgets that he himself is a ruin still more unsteady, and that he will fall before these remains do.” —Chateaubriand Looking at ruins has a long cultural history, particularly in poetry and […]

My work is about seeing through the first layer. To explain this, I will first talk about the process of how I create my artwork. I have a library of over two thousand 35-millimeter slides. I layer two or more slides, or I cut them apart with an Exacto blade and create a collage. I […]