Author Archives: jolanta

The sculptural installation, Halong-Kellong, is the imagined self-projection of modern life from a Chinese peasant’s perspective. This is a work of analytical realism, using the processes of design, production, participation and performance to present a microcosm of contemporary China. Halong-Kellong is comprised of a three hand truck imprinted with a Harley-Davidson style logo. Each work […]

To me, being an artist is to be perceptive in ways that others can’t be. To focus on the details and the texture. To sense tension and mood. In my work, and with these things in mind, I like to create an atmosphere in which to get lost. I usually gravitate towards photographing people, or […]

My favorite subject matter is people, and specifically, people doing what they naturally do.  When I first moved to New York, I was strictly a behind-the-scenes photojournalistic type of photographer, having been mainly into documenting what was happening around me or what I excitingly stumbled upon, predominantly in the music community and on the streets, […]

Grappling with an over-active imagination isn’t always easy, but artist Amy Cutler manages to make the feat appear at once effortless and well worth the try. With her drawing and gouache on paper fabrications, Cutler first establishes elaborate alternative frameworks of reality and culture and follows up by throwing women and girls of every age […]

For artist Lori Earley, painting what is beautiful comes both from inspiration within and from the outside world of cutting-edge fashion. Inspired by the imagination of high-end fashion icons such as Alexander McQueen or the exotic wardrobes of Jennifer Nicholson, Earley’s stunning portraits of esoteric women evoke mood and form as equally poignant and delicate […]

Pre-eminent in his field, Zhang Lin Hai’s collection of new works shows how he is evolving stylistically as an artist as he further develops his scope of imagination, and his motif of bald young boys against a backdrop of a post-industrial arid wasteland. More so now than ever before, Zhang Lin Hai’s onus is placed […]

Spearheaded by an increasing cultural globalization and, more specifically, by the West’s ever-expanding multiculturalism, large exhibitions such as the Taipei, Gwangju and Shanghai biennials have introduced contemporary Chinese art and artists to the global stage. Although this may appear to have been an overnight phenomenon, it is actually a gradual one that parallels the political […]

In our modern societies, transparent materials outshine opaque materials, bearers of traditions and sometimes obscurantism.  Either vehicle of political liberty or inevitable means for a capitalism which must maintain trust, this change from the opaque to the transparent is one among the many that a China of the 21st century is experiencing—but probably the one […]

Liu Jian Hua’s artworks present an unflinching illumination of the all too intimate relationship between materialism and humanity.  These questions and issues that are raised in his artworks are, for instance, evident in works like Do You have an answer? This work is a mixed-media piece wherein Liu Jian Hua uses both stainless steel sculpture […]

Amy Bennett is a Brooklyn-based artist who builds dollhouse-sized models of neighborhoods to stir up her imagination and to begin to create intricate and detailed stories of the families within it. Her paintings are striking, allowing the viewer to take a look into compelling and often dark homes, and reflect an extremely well-polished craft.Jenny Ziomek: […]