Author Archives: jolanta
Frank Dammers
Frank Dammers (Holland, Zwolle, 1951) shares with Mondriaan, and other artists who work in the spirit of the Bauhaus. His fascination for architecture is evident in the geometric and balanced nature Frank Dammers (Zwolle, 1951) shares with Mondriaan, and other artists who work in the spirit of the Bauhaus, the desire to give expression […]
The United States of Amnesiaââ¬âOrwellââ¬â¢s Invisible Flag – Paul D. Miller & Steven Psyllos
The KKK is after John Sims. In September of 2004, Sims installed his Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag at the Gettysburg College and the Mystic Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had a bit to say about his redefinition of this weighted symbol of the South and slavery. Why were the sheetheads so […]
WAKE UP MR. SLEEPY! YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND IS DEAD! – Joseph Nechvatal
In talking about artists who turn their life into art, one has to mention Richard Foreman’s new mixed media play WAKE UP MR. SLEEPY! YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND IS DEAD! purports to be a response to a world in which visionary sages and poets are replaced by specialists who make platitudes out of the immediately observable. […]
Paintings to Live In: Carmen Einfingerââ¬â¢s ââ¬ÅseeCEOseenââ¬Â at Broadway Gallery – Julia Draganovic
In talking about artists who turn their life into art, one has to mention Carmen Einfinger as a primary representative of our day. Without any artificial attitude, Carmen Einfinger transforms every aspect of her everyday life into an art piece: her clothes, her furniture, her whole Soho loft, everything she deals with gets that colorful, […]
Suvi Konttinen
Suvi Konttinen lives and works in Chicago and Helsinki. Konttinen’s work is conscious; she reacts to the things happening around her. Suvi Konttinen lives and works in Chicago and Helsinki. Konttinen’s work is conscious; she reacts to the things happening around her. She is currently working on a series of Story Paintings. Every painting tells […]
Iconic Plastic – Horace Brockington
“The only task left is to consider how I received this idea. For I did not get it through the senses, nor has it ever appeared to me unexpectedly, as the ideas of sensible objects are wont to do, when these objects are presented or seem to be presented to my external organs, nor is […]
Picks for May/June, 2007 – Christopher Hart Chambers
There is a cultural shift happening right now. I can sense it. Just listen to the radio. There’s more R + B, Hip Hop is mixing with other forms and Indie Rock is pop. There is a general mining of post war 20th century culture going on. But, this is not your standard retro thing, […]
Riflemaker Becomes Indica – Tyler Coburn
This past fall in London, the commercial gallery Riflemaker and the peripatetic organization, Centre of Attention—far from similar art world denizens—mounted concurrent exhibitions based on the city’s obsolete, avant-garde spaces. Matrices of alternative sociality and radical aesthetics driven by malaise with art world commercialism and an often unchecked idealism, these spaces offered significant challenges to […]
Richard Spasoff
I like to create beauty photographs of women in a surrealistic way. I am not a normal photographer; I consider myself an artist with visions. I like to create beauty photographs of women in a surrealistic way. I am not a normal photographer; I consider myself an artist with visions. It is important keep our […]
The Burning House – Marsea Goldberg
Swoon, David Ellis and Faile, a three-person art collective, all take their cue from the street. Well renowned individually, their show, “The Burning House,” will provide a high concentration of talent in collaborations as well as in the individual works on display. Swoon’s intricate paper cutouts have been covering the streets of New York for […]
