Author Archives: jolanta
Frances Borden
There are two portrait traditions, one the Sir Joshua Reynolds school with swaggering beauties, heroes and magnates There are two portrait traditions, one the Sir Joshua Reynolds school with swaggering beauties, heroes and magnates who, despite their accoutrements of fashion, power and wealth, we never know at all. The other is the Rembrandt tradition, an […]
Francois Baranger
As far as I can go back in my early memories, I have always kept drawing. So, logically, I have chosen to be a graphic artist.. As far as I can go back in my early memories, I have always kept drawing. So, logically, I have chosen to be a graphic artist.. But today my […]
Francois Baranger
As far as I can go back in my early memories, I have always kept drawing. So, logically, I have chosen to be a graphic artist.. As far as I can go back in my early memories, I have always kept drawing. So, logically, I have chosen to be a graphic artist.. But today my […]
Garin Baker
Born and raised in New York City, Garin Baker graduated from the Pratt Institute. He went on to establish a career as a freelance artist and illustrator. Born and raised in New York City, Garin Baker graduated from the Pratt Institute. He went on to establish a career as a freelance artist and illustrator. To […]
Garin Baker
Born and raised in New York City, Garin Baker graduated from the Pratt Institute. He went on to establish a career as a freelance artist and illustrator. Born and raised in New York City, Garin Baker graduated from the Pratt Institute. He went on to establish a career as a freelance artist and illustrator. To […]
Gary Stephan in Three Dimensions – Cheryl Donegan
Painter and printmaker Gary Stephan and the filmmaker and painter Cheryl Donegan have known each other for over 20 years, since she was a student at RISD and he was showing at Mary Boone Gallery. They met at Stephan’s studio recently to discuss his new sculptures, the reasonable limits of interpretation, and his continued attempts […]
Art on the Line – Shane McAdams
Currently showing at Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, a new-ish space in Greenpoint, is a modest but extremely compelling show curated by Scott Malbaurn. Art on the Line features five artists each working with aspects of a pedigreed artistic element that, despite its illustrious past, came to last century’s finish line hobbling. Art on the Line Shane […]
Report From Venice: The Arsenale – James Westcott
There’s only a very short curatorial introduction to the exhibition at the Arsenale in Venice for the 51st edition of the Biennale. Rosa Martinez quotes Beckett only to defy him: while he spoke of an art that was "weary of puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little […]
The Guilin Yuzi-Paradise – Enrico Pedrini
At the Yuzi Paradise Sculpture Park in Guilin, sculpture interacts with a unique mountainous environment: huge granite marble structures project from the plain to create imposing peaks standing straight up like dense, massive sculptures. It’s a fantasy landscape of peculiar peaks. The mountains are partially covered with vegetation that thrives amid the gorges of the […]
Andreja Kuluncic – Ben Rutter
The Croatian conceptualist Andreja Kuluncic wants to help her fellow Eastern Europeans crack the New York art world’s oldest codes. Whom to meet? Where to show? Kuluncic has spent her residence at Art In General, the non-profit gallery, assembling a manua about how to build the art world social capital necessary for success–a how-to guide […]
