Author Archives: jolanta
Fumi Nakamura
I make art to express myself. All the creations I have made are based on my experiences, thoughts and memories. English isn’t my first language and moving to the United States when I was eleven was the toughest part of my life. I didn’t know the language and I also didn’t know anyone. Not being […]
Dancing with Lamps – Tina Kesting
Ten years after the foundation of her dance company cie.toula limnaios, chorographer, interpreter and dancer Toula Limnaios celebrates this event in the form of a three-week jubilee program. She shows pieces from several periods ranging in style from solo to quintet. This wouldn’t seem to be anything of importance, but, these days, it is very […]
Barbara Streiff
Primal geometry – ten symbols found in Nature – has been a spiritual awakening and an unending source of inspiration for the artist. Primal geometry – ten symbols found in Nature – has been a spiritual awakening and an unending source of inspiration for the artist. Empowered by the symbolic energy in primal geometry, Barbara […]
Hope Grows in Chelsea – D. Dominick Lombardi
Emergency Arts, a complex of studios, non-profit charitiy spaces and galleries on 11th Avenue in Chelsea opened this past September. Not such big news in itself, sure, but, in this case, and in the approach taken here with the recyclable materials construction and communal feel of its dwellers, you see something closer to the heyday […]
(Not) Curated by Doug Harvey and Christian Cummings – Kim Bockus
Word went out on the internet ten days before the show opened—an invitation to artists to pack up some art and head down to High Energy Constructs in LA’s Chinatown arts district. This was no ordinary invitation, but an online chain letter. Each person who got the email was to forward it to ten others, […]
Thresholds at UT – Melissa Harris
While religious art brings to mind traditional images of the Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ, the wide variety of works currently on display at the University of Tennessee’s Ewing Gallery and UT Downtown Gallery is proof that, in the world of sacred artistic expression, anything goes. "Thresholds: Expressions of Art and Spiritual Life" is the […]
Light and the City – George Pasterk
Although Shawn Hummel has been known to photograph custom cars, his work is not related to nostalgia or kitsch and is about as concerned with documenting artifacts from a distinct subculture as Edward Weston was concerned with the cultural proclivities of the produce he photographed. Hummel is more enthralled by those same “lovely topologies” that […]
Knoxville Museum of Art – Scott McNutt
Opened in 1990, the Knoxville Museum of Art presents 10 to 12 exhibitions each year, featuring emerging artists and designers, its permanent collection and traveling exhibitions. Other activities at the museum include a semi-weekly classic film series, a weekly concert series, family-friendly days, as well as ongoing art classes, seminars and lectures. With 53,200 total […]
University of Tennessee Galleries – Leslie Wylie
The work of UT art students and alumni has a knack for finding its way into notable art galleries and museums. In the past three years alone, for instance, two UT grads—Kelley Walker and Wade Guyton—were represented in the Whitney Biennial, and plenty more graduates have seen their creations surface in exhibitions both in the […]
A Cornerstone Institution – Curator Sophie von Olfers talks about Witte de With
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art was founded in 1990 and has since played an extremely important role in the cultural scene in Rotterdam. Locally, but also internationally, the institution has always seen its responsibility in addressing a broad audience, while contributing to what you might think of as a more culture-specific or critical […]
