Author Archives: jolanta

I like receiving art invitations in the mail. Postcards are best because you don’t have to open them—and on the other end, they’re less expensive to mail than envelopes. Sometimes I play games with the invites, games that you can’t play with e-mail invites. I mean, once in a while I print out a press […]

En una línea opuesta a la espectacuralidad que se anuncia éxito –y que tanto daño ha hecho a la comprensión pública del arte- el estadounidense Lance Dehné planteó en Valencia una posible concentración de la mirada a partir de pequeños formatos contenedores de universos que hacen del exterior visual un interior desnudamente intimista.Centrado en la […]

      This is a series of self-portraits with my family members, a project I have been working on for a couple of years. With this series, I want to express love, unity and self-awareness through the bridging of generations. We live in a fast-evolving time, and I find it very important to always […]

I am a painter, but I have roots in comics and illustration. I decided at some point that I needed to merge these modes of expression into one hybrid form. Since I want to make paintings and drawings of a linear, serial nature, I have created recurring characters and adapted the narrative format of the […]

Moody, trashy, this whole exhibition’s world is a fucked up kinda neo-Dada installation with a freakish video; Cobra/Expressionist-type paintings extend to wall smears and splatters and some scale-model, hapless, habitats made of ripped Styrofoam, wood and whatever, are slapped together and painted—so I decided to stay a while. There was something else there: Some strong […]

Skeletons—they are a brand new for me. In an art gallery, no less. It’s been a while. I needed a break from 20 years of ugly old heads and nasty little puns on the mean streets.Here’s the deal: During the Black Plague in Europe, Hans Holbein the Younger did a series of 41 woodcuts of […]

In my work, I commonly create fictional stories with loose narratives, female protagonists and anthropomorphic imagery. Images of nature are romanticized, time and space are flattened and the mood is usually dreamy or whimsical. My work depicts snippets of imagined conversations, utopia and the possibility of a self-sufficient world.Occasionally, I create installations that involve other […]

      Upon entering Cheim and Read through its doors on 25th street this winter, one is almost immediately struck by the unlikely scent of topsoil on the far west side of the New York City grid. This affective sensory reminder of the natural world, of some prior habitat or even of some personal […]