Author Archives: jolanta

If you care about abstract painting—especially if you care about really smart, technically deft abstract painting—you need to see Robert Schatz’s show at The Phatory in Manhattan’s Alphabet City. There, about a block off of Tompkins Square Park, Schatz has staged a little riot of his own. Many of the paintings are created on the […]

It was a stormy winter in Chicago back in 2001 when I began illustrating more intensively. I was in the midst of my graphic design course, taking classes at the city’s School of the Art Institute. It was then that I began filling up sketchbook after sketchbook with daily doodles. At that time, it was […]

This is the way it usually goes: a push from one of us, a pull from the other. In the end, it’s hard to tell who’s who or what belongs to whom. We’ve been collaborating for eight years now, and it’s beginning to feel like we’re one being with four arms and two halves of […]

Recently, Chinese society has transitioned from an idealistic society to a pragmatic one, bringing with it a change in values. In the early phases of Chinese contemporary art, most of the works produced discussed more abstract questions, such as political and economical matters concerning a collective society, whereas, today, the focus is turning toward individual […]

Entering the Anderson Gallery to view Gerald Donato’s show, “Reinventing the Game,” I realized that, even though I have known him for six or seven years, I had not seen much of his work. Thus, I came to this show with an undisturbed palette. As I walked from room to room, I was continually blown […]

With a history of more than 20 years of having his images published in the Belgium’s most prominent weeklies and monthlies, Jean Van Cleemput has been established as one of the country’s most acclaimed photographers for quite some time. More recently, Van Cleemput has also gained international recognition after publishing his first book Beluga (Goliath, […]

Drawing is something I have been doing for as long as I can remember. Growing up, there were always art materials around the house, and before I could even walk I would accompany my mom to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, where she taught children’s art classes. Sometimes I got […]

I grew up in a very Catholic region of The Netherlands. In my youth there were separate schools for boys and girls. At age 11, I had a horse accident that left me crippled for a long time. I still recall stumbling to school on my large orthopaedic shoes and crutches while young girls from […]

All grown up, we miss and yearn for the sensational experience of childhood: to wonder, love or fear; to have one’s curiosity aroused, spirit lifted and mind’s eye opened, in revelation. Through my work, I return to this childlike state, and I invite my audience along. I enjoy stereoscopic imaging in three-dimensions for several reasons, […]

When I saw Joan Miro’s Woman Strolling on the Rambla of Barcelona at the Met, it reminded me of my own visit to that Spanish city several years ago, when, walking up the Rambla, I thought: "I can live here, all right." I was in a cafe, sipping absinthe for the first time and talking […]