Author Archives: jolanta
Anthony Julius
My paintings are visual journals of thoughts and experiences of every-day life. The majority of my paintings aren’t planned… My paintings are visual journals of thoughts and experiences of every-day life. The majority of my paintings aren’t planned, it’s just a matter of persisting until something of interest transpires. I appreciate drawings from children who […]
Kacy Maddux
The mark is the simplest representation of human intelligence, it is the shared tool of all human production; the figure of our diagrams, designs and words. It shares its origin with the beginning of humanity’s memory. The difference between black and white reveals the written word. The line the pen makes generally […]
We Make Money Not Art – Ken Rinaldo
www.we-make-money-not-art.com is one of the most popular web logs (Blog sites) on the web. Its focus is on web activism, architecture, augmented reality, body, cyborgs, design, entertainment, gadgets, games, installation, locative media, nanotechnology, politics of privacy, RFID, robots, sex, sousveillance, street telephony, festivals, transport trends, ubiquitous computing, wearables and much more. I […]
Kozyndan
Kozyndan is a Los Angeles-based team of artist/illustrators known for their digitally painted pencil drawings of contemporary urban cityscapes and surreal interior spaces. Comprised of husband and wife Dan and Kozue Kitchens, Kozyndan creates both fine art and commercial projects, and has been showcased internationally to much critical acclaim. The duo met in a painting […]
Katarzyna Kozyraââ¬â¢s Punishment and Crime – Paulina Pobocha
Since Katarzyna Kozyra’s 1993 diploma work, Pyramid of Animals, her name has been synonymous with controversy. Here, as in every subsequent project, she mines society’s social fabric and selects some of the most unsavory themes for dissection and presentation. Often her own body is her subject, as, for example, in its cancer-ravaged state in Olympia […]
The Evil Girl Project (There is a Lot of Us and We are All the Same) – Maja Ciric
To quote Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex would be a distant feminist reference, but sometimes it is necessary to go back to the roots if one feels like understanding the present condition of feminine representations. Beauvoir writes: “Every subject achieves liberty only through a continual reaching out toward other liberties. Every time transcendence falls back […]
Mind Tricks – Matt Furie
I was born in suburban Ohio—it was a great place to grow up. I played outside, watched a lot of TV and played a lot of video games. I also drew pictures all the time. I liked making up creatures and drawing animals out of the Encyclopaedia. After receiving my bachelor of fine arts, I […]
The Monster Who Killed the Echo – Jonathan Hartshorn
They are still dying. They are still there, dying. Tom’s leg and arm are missing. He doesn’t look happy. He has lost some weight. He has grown a beard. He likes to watch those movies. He seems okay, but I can’t say the same for his sister. She keeps crying. Don’t know why though. Doesn’t […]
Composing Sensuality – Eric Pelka
My mother took me weekly to the Cleveland Museum of Art at the age of three. This was my first formal introduction to a large and diverse collection of fine art in one building. One particular work of art that captured my attention most was Henri Matisse’s Woman with Etruscan Vase. I can never get […]
Pink Kid Gloves – Jinnine Pak
A.I.R. Gallery and Chashama present “Pink Kid Gloves,” a group exhibition of A.I.R. Gallery artists, curated by Jinnine Pak, a 2005-06 Fellowship recipient.Susan Bee, Sarah Blackwelder, Fay Ku and Deborah Wasserman each address the complexities of childhood or adolescence in their work. The artists approach the topic through a personal and cultural context and challenge […]
