Author Archives: jolanta
Colette Banaigs
To me, painting is a language which expresses something beyond words, a language of simple, strong and symbolic signs, such as those which form "La loi du plus fort" To me, painting is a language which expresses something beyond words, a language of simple, strong and symbolic signs, such as those which form "La loi […]
Colette Banaigs
To me, painting is a language which expresses something beyond words, a language of simple, strong and symbolic signs, such as those which form "La loi du plus fort" To me, painting is a language which expresses something beyond words, a language of simple, strong and symbolic signs, such as those which form "La loi […]
Colette Banaigs
To me, painting is a language which expresses something beyond words, a language of simple, strong and symbolic signs, such as those which form "La loi du plus fort" To me, painting is a language which expresses something beyond words, a language of simple, strong and symbolic signs, such as those which form "La loi […]
Miguel Gutierrez: Transcending Uncertainty – Lisa Paul Streitfeld
Miguel Gutierrez storms on the raw stage of Dance Theater Workshop to U2’s New Year’s Day—a sign of the rebirth to follow—to set up for his show. The clothes come on and off as he references his past works through video, including a dance around a Christmas tree. He pushes iron before a mirror and […]
The Sculpture of Kim Lim: Unconventional Innocence – Horace Brockington
While the presence of foreign-born artists has impacted and defined contemporary British art, this is neither an isolated or new occurrence. Prior to the 18th century, British art had long been dominated by a series of foreign-born artists. Globally, post-war Modernism has been informed and shaped by artists moving independently or through necessity to foreign […]
Floating Galleries: Defining a place without a space – Emily Steinfeld
Fitting into spaces is what people who dwell in cities, especially NYC, do. We fit a lifetime of accumulated matter into minuscule apartments, bodies into subway cars, varying degrees of education and talent into varying degrees of annoying jobs. We fit booze into lunch hours and miniature dogs into purses. We structure lives around a […]
Ursula Gullow
Ursula Gullow’s frontal paintings are plays — theater; and in order to understand the paintings one must indulge in fantasy, memory, and games. Ursula Gullow’s frontal paintings are plays — theater; and in order to understand the paintings one must indulge in fantasy, memory, and games. The characters are posed and appear frozen in time […]
Adela Leibowitz
The origins of these paintings began with my black and white “Nowhere” paintings, which depicted the lonely haunted backwoods in a non-specific time and place. I have always been heavily influenced by black and white horror movies, which presented a subtle yet palatable vision of anxiety and suspense. The environment itself is culled from such […]
Irina Nakhova – Anne Swartz
Artist Irina Nakhova exists in the liminal space between places and identities. She is a Russian artist now living primarily in America who still spends extended periods in Europe and Russia. She was raised under the Soviet system, a member of the close-knit avant-garde there who experienced the freedom that followed Perestroika. She is an […]
The Horrific Pureness of Blond Heads – JBK Ransu
Birgir Snaebjörn Birgisson (b. 1966) is an Icelandic figurative painter whose work hints at minimal thoughts as presented by Kasimir Malevich in the 1920s. An artist that over a period of time took his works through a cleansing process by rejecting duality and embracing absence of color, pure white, pure light. Yet, different from the […]
