Author Archives: jolanta
Maria Baranova
Maria Baranova, painter, photographer and designer, born in 1979 in Moscow. At the age of 14 move to Finland whit family, were I did finish Art School Maa. At 2000 move back to Moscow for work. In my works I want first of all I show feelings and emotions, through colors, forms and words. Build […]
Katy Hamer
Enter into a new Renaissance. Here recognizable contemporary figures are portrayed as Icons. Enter into my contemporary world of “Sinner/Saint.” Enter into a new Renaissance. Here recognizable contemporary figures are portrayed as Icons. Enter into my contemporary world of “Sinner/Saint”. My friends have posed and become the Saints whose stories I have wondered about in […]
Ken Kagami
Ken Kagami lives and works in Tokyo. Kagami’s background is in fashion – he studied at Bunka Fashion college. Ken Kagami lives and works in Tokyo. Kagami’s background is in fashion – he studied at Bunka Fashion college. Design, as and an interest in the American abject; i.e. the work of Paul McCarthy, serves as […]
Bo Yun – Hilary Binks
Bo Yun (Li Yongcun) is among the few modern Chinese artists who, while maintaining respect for the ancient heritage of Chinese ink painting, have succeeded in integrating new ideas and techniques that give their work a contemporary feel. Bo Yun’s vertical diptychs in ink and color on paper, like ancient Chinese scrolls, are microcosms of […]
Tatiana Kuznetsova
The best source of inspiration for me is recognition and approval from people who are viewing my artworks. The best source of inspiration for me is recognition and approval from people who are viewing my artworks. Their emotional reaction and the depth of impression my art gives them. I am a worldly person, not a […]
Zoe Strauss – Danielle Jackson
Zoe Strauss’ star has risen. After garnering notice in her native Philadelphia, Strauss was selected by curator Chrissy Iles for “Day for Night” at the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Remarkably, Strauss continues to make her work as accessible as possible, even amid a flurry of media attention, with affordable prints (every print sells for $5 each); […]
The Powerful Works from a Truncated Life – Anne Swartz
Two exhibitions of Eva Hesse’s drawings and sculptures are on view in New York City, one uptown at the Jewish Museum and one downtown at the Drawing Center. Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at The Whitney Museum of American Art, co-curated both: the Jewish Museum exhibition with Fred Wasserman, Henry J. Leir […]
Grey Flags – Rebecca Lossin
At about five in the evening the skylight is brutal and I am momentarily blinded as I round the corner of a temporary wall. As I turn away from that awesome beam of light and my eyes regain focus I find myself looking at a wall covered in yellow Post-it notes. Or rather, a wall […]
Liz-N-Val Selected ArtSites 2006 – Chris Twomey
The Stairs to Somewhere can be found in Liz-N-Val’s “Selected Artsites 2006” on view at Henrybuilt in Soho, NYC. Even though these 6 inch-tall stairs, folded like an aluminum fan, do lead their tiny protagonist teetering somewhere 6 inches above the floor, the real “somewhere” to the success of this installation is the austere space […]
Aleksandra Jarosz Laszlo
Relationships between the characters in my pictures depict the power games we play with each other, games which end with tears as often as with laughter. Relationships between the characters in my pictures depict the power games we play with each other, games which end with tears as often as with laughter. They show people’s […]
