Author Archives: jolanta
Emerging Artists & Designers Come to Nashville – Kathleen Losche
One of the newest additions to the growing Nashville art scene is tucked into in a 364 square foot space on the second floor of the historic Arcade Building in downtown Nashville. SQFT Gallery is owned and operated by Rhode Island School of Design graduate, and local Nashvillian, Aaron Durnin. Durnin is a furniture designer […]
Kotahitanga – Anna Jackson
Reuben Paterson is a New Zealand artist of Maori descent. A recent studio resident at the International Curatorial Studio in New York, Paterson has spent the past years working in America and the European cities of Athens, Pescara and London. Primarily a painter, Paterson has become widely known for his re-interpretations of Maori iconography, which […]
Pamela Jane Goldman
There is humor in my works. I believe that when combining found objects such as glass, crystal, seashells and metal, in surprising, new ways… There is humor in my works. I believe that when combining found objects such as glass, crystal, seashells and metal, in surprising, new ways, I can invoke a sense of playfulness. […]
Solid Ground – John Reed on Holly Lynton
The big story is this: you have a desire, whether it is something you should have or something you shouldn’t and you chase your desire, but to attain it, you must overcome who you are; you must either grow past your limitations, or find out what your true limitations are. When you have overcome—preferably a […]
Noah Fischer: Rhetoric Machine – Elwyn Palmerton
Noah Fischer’s “Rhetoric Machine” presents a whirlwind tour of American history since 1941: a ten-minute-long narrative installation in kinetic sculpture, lights and recorded sound. Snippets of pop songs, sound effects and recordings of speeches by every president from F.D.R. to Clinton accompany the sculpture’s ten-minute sequence of light and animatronics. Some of the sculptural elements […]
Installation Art: Concepts in Video Installation & Immersive Environments – Marguerite Harris
Recently, installation art has begun to engage narrative and conceptual language. In my own video installation work, I am interested in using recent technologies, including video, DVD and virtual space. Narratives here include personal constructed histories as well as the experience that the viewer brings to the installation, ultimately completing the sculpture. Much of my […]
The Use of Narrative within Installation Art – Andrea Liu
In attending various galleries and museums this past October, such as the Sculpture Center and Jack the Pelican in New York, I noticed a trend: many exhibitions were set up as installations in the form of a narrative, whereby each part of the story was broken up into “stations” that the viewer was to view, […]
Postmodern Narrative in Contemporary Installation Art – Lynn M. Somers-Davis
Although by the early 90s installation art had emerged as a particular mode of art-making, encompassing structural and procedural components such as the immersive and experiential environment; the blurring of the boundaries between viewer and art object; and the bold mixing of media to include the performative, it maddeningly retained its fluid borders, admitting a […]
Mine the Gap – Nicholas Knight
The purpose of this text is to explore the artistic relationship between the concepts of thing, space and experience; to suggest some philosophical principles at work and to consider a recent example of their application in an exhibition by Cheyney Thompson. To speak broadly and evoke general categories like thing, space and experience is to […]
Isidro Blasco: The Middle of the End – Jillian Steinhauer
The idea is at once exciting and brilliant: snap a photograph, take it apart and then piece it back together, however you want. I can think of few better ways to intervene in reality (without actually intervening, of course) and to reconfigure the world to reveal its, or one’s own, biases. So I expected to […]
