Author Archives: jolanta

“Reconstruction” explores the many subtleties and shapes of survival and transformation using all manner of media, from painting to video and performance; the nightly news is a litany of destruction. The wreckage surrounds us—towers fall, waves crash, the world is at war and love is hard to find. But reconstruction and renewal spring eternal even […]

Sometimes it’s OK to fall in love with pretty things and the alluring paintings of LA artist Audrey Kawasaki may well merit adoration through their aesthetic appeal alone, but there is a bit more to the gorgeous fantasy characters she creates on wood panel after wood panel. Death via skull imagery abounds in her works […]

The art world, like most of the world, is a very segregated and sometimes extremely lonely place. In reaction to these surroundings, I have launched the monthly Draw-A-Thon. At this alternative art event, figure drawing is re-cast by adding narrative, theatrical and musical components, creating context and energy in public spaces. I studied art from […]

Tchera Niyego, the curator of the “White” show at the Broadway Gallery, NYC, happens to be a woman of style and substance. Luckily for me, the show lived up to what I have come to expect from her (because there is nothing worse than having to face a beautiful woman and tell her she’d better […]

Rico Frico aka Rico the butcher aka Error 404, is wearing a white apron splattered in red paint and tattooing the words “No Style Fuck” onto the ass of a girl leaning over a table covered in red satin. I’m sitting outside on the sidewalk with some people, watching the display through a storefront window, […]

For a country with a population of only 300,000, Iceland is one hopping place. Of these, three-quarters live in the capital, Reykjavik. Like the volcanic lava and rock that gives its thermal pools life and energy, Icelanders are similarly teeming with a creative force of nature that is at times freakish and awe-inspiring. The number […]

Berlin’s Brunnenstrasse opened its season this past fall with the inauguration of more than five new galleries, making it one of the most heavily gallery-populated streets in the city. However, one of the most interesting exhibitions was not associated with any gallery, but was rather the independent effort of an artist who has been living […]

Nicholas di Genova is a 25-year-old artist based in Toronto, Canada. His series of recent paintings on Mylar were the subject of an exhibition at Chelsea’s Fredericks and Freiser gallery.Colleen Becker: "Death from Below: The Upper Layers of the Hades Geofront" is a rather lengthy and specific title for a show. Could you explain its […]

In Berlin, not far from Alexanderplatz, a bulldozer is noisily demolishing a wall, adding red glass shards to a pile of rubble, a pile that is slowly growing larger than the building that is being destroyed. This is not an unlikely scene in a city that, until recently, was known as the largest construction site […]