Author Archives: jolanta
Mei Yee Lam
A British Chinese glass artist exploring the link between expression and creativity. This work is about man-made comforts and nature… A British Chinese glass artist exploring the link between expression and creativity. This work is about man-made comforts and nature, how they are sometimes in conflict, sometimes mutually dependent. This unlikely marriage is real in […]
Hannah Furmage
Hannah Furmage is a conceptual artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her work aesthetizes risk and the margins of culture by orchestrating encounters with people who inhabit the outskirts of society. Rather than being a passive voyeur, she is an accomplice in the scenarios that she creates by reasserting the outsider‘s voice against the establishment. The […]
Mariline Fiori
I was born Corsica, a small French island in the Mediterranean and now live in Paris, a very inspiring city. I used to work in the field of electronic and rock music for about five years. I then became a member of the Op-ac collective to merge my love of music and the visual arts. […]
The Infinite Truth of Flatterland – E.K. Clark
Mindy Shapero spins an exquisite narrative web. She creates an alternative, quirky, personal universe, imbued with a dark undertow that at any moment threatens to engulf us. Her objects are both familiar and strange, residing somewhere within the realm of childhood fairytales, waking dreams and nightmares.“The Infinite Truth of Flatterland” presents four vividly colored paintings […]
Elizabeth Huey – Salman Toor
Salmon Toor: How was the Yale School of Art, as it is one of the best schools in the country for painting? Was your style similar to the style of work you are producing now? Consequently, how big of an affect did the Grad school have on you as an artist? Elizabeth Huey: The whole […]
Levity at the Drawing Center
The Drawing Center’s “Levity: Selections Spring 2007” explores lightness in both material and metaphoric terms, featuring 14 emerging artists selected from the Viewing Program. The term “levity” might be used to describe any number of works of drawing, implying a “light touch,” lightweight or light-colored materials, a sense of humor or even irreverence towards high […]
Makor Marathon
The Fall 2006 Makor Artists-in-Residence program draws artistic inspiration from the many faces of the urban landscape. Throughout the program, Makor’s 27 Artists-in-Residence have navigated through ancient, mythical, imaginary and contemporary urban settings, including the cities of Babel, Jericho, Jerusalem, New York, Berlin and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. With these settings as focal points for exploration, […]
Depicting the Wild, One Nano-Stroke at A Time – Matilde Digmann
The New York-based artist John Kleckner opened his first solo show in Berlin on November 11th. Here, he exhibited a choice selection of his most recent works on paper. John Kleckner’s images can be described in many ways. His work could be explained as proto-emotional, pictorial phenomena employing metaphors of biology and evolutionary ecology. His […]
Ear Appeal – Doreen Mende
As curator, it was very important for me to try to reflect a variety of the presentation formats of audio culture, which deals with the production of space and with the construction of society. How can you exhibit an invisible reality that is permanently in flux outside of the exhibition space and within the spaces […]
Who’s Buying Art In Beijing? – Ellen J. Twaddell
At a recent preview in Beijing’s Red Gate Gallery, artist Zhou Jirong’s large mixed media canvases drew a substantial crowd. The contemporary art gallery is housed in a Ming Dynasty guardhouse, where the work has to be exceptional to compete with the beauty of the architecture. Inside, Chinese art students rubbed shoulders with prospective buyers […]
