Author Archives: jolanta
Reese Inman
Reese Inman’s paintings map the output of computer programs, exploring contemporary experiences…. Reese Inman’s paintings map the output of computer programs, exploring contemporary experiences of information overload and our collective attempts to make sense of the massive amounts of data we collect. Combining the hands-off exactitude of computer technology with the hands-on discipline of painting, […]
Chris Twomey ââ¬ÅMadonna Seriesââ¬Â – E. K. Clark
Inspired by Byzantine icons and early Renaissance painting, Chris Twomey explores themes of motherhood and identity as impacted by the latest scientific theories of ancestry genetics. The “Madonna Series” is her second solo show at the Tribes Gallery. Using all the tools available today; computer manipulated digital photography, printing, scanning, DVDs, old fashioned painting and […]
Gunilla Oldenburg
Gunilla Oldenburg is a Swedish artist. A combination of abstract painting and romantic surrealism is frequent in her art-works. Gunilla Oldenburg is a Swedish artist. A combination of abstract painting and romantic surrealism is frequent in her art-works. Colour, rhythm and humour is combined in a balanced way. A serious touch reflecting the opposites of […]
Media Machines – Amy Ingrid Schlegel
The graphic strategies of mass media advertising have always played on viewers’ subliminal needs and desires in order to sell products. In the post-War period, the manipulative power of the media became synonymous with Madison Avenue’s seductive magic. Fast forward to the digital age: Vienna-based media artist Günther Selichar investigates how those advertising strategies of […]
The Impermanent Collection III – Curator Cathy Nan Quinlan
The ‘temporary Museum of Painting likes to pretend that there are no visual arts other than painting and drawing and that these fundamentally create what we see. Its wall space is reserved for those artists that are largely oblivious to the technologies of instant image collection and continue to create individual artworks, by hand, with […]
Galerie Caprice Horn – Curator Chris Townsend
The photograph is commonly imagined as the most literal of the arts: what we see in the image is what was there. Even in the age of the digital image this understanding of the medium persists. Yet photography too, from its earliest moments, was understood as a space for performance and a frame where the […]
Stare – Danielle Horn
Stare is an exhibition about the deconstruction and reconstruction of the figurative portrait through distortion—whether on a physical or psychological level. Each of the six male artists brought together in this exhibition address this same issue; yet create very different results from one another. I am fascinated by the way these male artists work on […]
ââ¬ÅOnce upon a time: A Mochica princessââ¬Â – Curator Jano Cortijo
Once upon a time, a Mochica princess ruled the northern coast of Perú. Her vast kingdom began where Ecuador is now located and reached down as far as Lima, the current capital of the Peruvian territory. Heir to the mythical god Aia Paec, our copper-skinned lady strutted around the hot sands of the Moche Valley […]
Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance) – Curators Joao Ribas and Becky Smith
“Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance)” is an exhibition of new currents in conceptual photography. The exhibition is part of a three-show series entitled “The Mallarmé Propositions,” which addresses several key themes in current artistic practice. Photography has undergone two major shifts in the past few decades: the loss of its objective relationship to reality […]
Greig Burgoyne
The starting point for Burgoyne’s paintings is our relationship and conflict with the sea. The starting point for Burgoyne’s paintings is our relationship and conflict with the sea. He takes the disarray, sense of displacement and impermanence suggested by the structures and found objects in this context as a metaphor. This is reflected in the […]
