Author Archives: jolanta
Cheekwood and Nashvilleâs Contemporary Art Scene – Adam T. McCoy
In the mid-90s, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art broadened its commitment to contemporary art. At the time, only a few galleries and alternative spaces in Nashville offered venues for contemporary artists to exhibit. Artists-run spaces frequently came and went, and commercial galleries such as Zeitgeist and TAG were in their infancy. Against this […]
Peter Harrap
Passionate Boredom Series On the surface these new Paintings are about disenfranchised youth- crime, self harm, adolescent subjects. Passionate Boredom Series On the surface these new Paintings are about disenfranchised youth- crime, self harm, adolescent subjects. But actually these paintings are about boredom. Over exposure to MTV culture and youth culture as a capitalist gimmick. […]
Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology and Contemporary – Art Jane Farver
The exhibition “Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology and Contemporary Art” recently considered the current role of the senses in a time of transition—when it might be possible for technological advances in digital smell, haptic devices and embodied computing to begin to challenge vision’s long-held dominance over the other senses. The artists in “Sensorium” considered the ability […]
Iâm JAC
My illustration of this beautiful girl with a knife was created when DIF Magazine asked me to make an Illustration to go along with the psychological test: "How crazy are you.” Before I created this piece, I sat in front of a mirror and tried to take a pose that most clearly expressed craziness for […]
Death of the Artist – E. K. Clark
The Maccarone Gallery, which was closed for a year, reopened on Greenwich Street in a cavernous space with an uninspired exhibition by the German conceptual artist, Christian Jankowski. Maccarone garnered her reputation as an underground gallery by showing above ground social realism with the enthusiastic support of the Village Voice art critic, Jerry Saltz. The […]
Aftershock – Ellen Pearlman
The title of this exhibit organized by the British Council and the Capital Museum should be, “Cultural Détente in an Age of Delicate Official Cross Cultural Exchange.” To be fair, the show’s organizers were caught between a rock and a hard place—offending official sensibility would have resulted in no show at all, so the result […]
Plush Heroics – Whitney May
At the glass façade of one of the more exposed, storefront-like white spaces in Chelsea, springtime gallery goers found themselves window shopping a colorful collage of rare and eclectic examples of early 90s cassette tapes, and right alongside a decent number of felt warrior characters reminiscent of Jim Henson’s The Labyrinth or of the Nickelodeon […]
Smart-Ass-Escapist Art – Martha Rich
I came to this art thing pretty late in life. Even though I have been drawing since I could hold a pencil, somehow I ended up in corporate America for 15 years bouncing from cubicle job to cubicle job. I was fast tracked into the typical American life: job, marriage, kids and a picket fence. […]
Art Floats – Whitney May
Whitney May: Your latest body of work was recently on view at Art Agents Gallery in Hamburg under the (appropriate) exhibition heading “Hover.” How does this architectural and highly intricate portion of your sculptural oeuvre compare to the rest? Do you consider this sculptural style new or old news? Eric Eley: My work has always […]
All New Flatness – Andrew Kozlowski
If Clement Greenberg wanted flatness, artist Jared Lindsay Clark has accomplished it. The problem is that he is building that flatness from kitsch. Jared Lindsay Clark’s show at ADA Gallery in Richmond, then, is one of contradiction and subtlety. This is not quite painting, but it is about painting. It is not quite sculpture, but […]
