Author Archives: jolanta

I recently visited the inaugural exhibition at Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn and was delighted to see some of the best paintings I have seen in a long time. These large, abstract canvases are by Lauren Luloff, a young artist living in Williamsburg, NY. On first sight, Lauren’s work looks like an explosion in a […]

I have nine large-scale oil paintings and six collages currently on exhibition in Berlin, where they were first painted.  I lived in Berlin from 1998 to 2001, and moved to New York City the week before the fateful September 11th.  My boyfriend, who was flying with my work from Berlin a week later, landed in […]

Curator Claudio Gonzalez began a visual dialogue between Alejandra Villasmil and D. Dominick Lombardi when he asked them both to exhibit together in his gallery. Both artists write about art as well, so the potential for an interesting linear dialogue between the two was too good to pass up. Here are a few excerpts form […]

At the recent inauguration of MoMA’s Education and Research Building (which marked the grand finale of architect Yoshio Taniguchi’s vision for the museum), I was struck by the power of symmetry and how the open glass bookends now framing the sculpture garden create an illusion of larger space. Designed to mirror the gallery building on […]

I create art because there’s nothing else I’ve ever really wanted to do. As far back as I can remember, art has always been my passion. I love getting to the end of an illustration in order to take in how it looks as a complete piece. To see it completed is an achievement, and […]

It’s always fun to find one of those 1980s, East Village throwback-type galleries. You know, the ones who favor a brutal sort of figurative art that kicks the cobwebs out of the old thinking process. If you are like me, head over to Aidan Savoy Gallery to catch a potent, two-pronged exhibition titled “A Piece […]

Victoria Mayer: Tell me a bit about your current artworks and what meanings you extrapolate from your work?Joseph Giannasio: I question my motives, and I seek more of an experience in the work. Crafting is a form of meditation. There’s something in me that’s not at ease—when I work, I am very tactile. I am […]

It is tempting to read Jeremy Drummond’s recent work as a straightforward critique of the suburban way of life. After all, suburbia is an easy target—the cookie cutter houses, the false sense of security, the failed promise of domestic bliss. Scholars, artists and urban planners have been bemoaning the woes of exurban growth for the […]

It is tempting to read Jeremy Drummond’s recent work as a straightforward critique of the suburban way of life. After all, suburbia is an easy target—the cookie cutter houses, the false sense of security, the failed promise of domestic bliss. Scholars, artists and urban planners have been bemoaning the woes of exurban growth for the […]

A lot has been written about Merrill Steiger’s paintings. References to aboriginal art, the meditative process of applying paint, the mandala, and that is all fine. But here, underneath the cover story, lie deep roots in pop art. Take, for instance, Mandala In Nature. The mandala in the middle, which is comprised of concentric prisms […]