Author Archives: jolanta

Anna VanMatre, whose work was recently displayed at the Berliner Kunst Project in Berlin and the Broadway Gallery in New York, explores the natural, elemental dramas of the world, portending something potent, and undeniable. In great gray graphite swirls and clouds, VanMatre depicts scenes as oppressive and evocative as a rain-weary morning in fall, at […]

The lights in the two rooms are off. Light filters in from the main gallery and music can be detected in the background, but that doesn?t lessen the feeling that I?ve entered another world?a laboratory of light, video, mechanical objects, and assemblage. In the (Well-Lit) Laboratory of Life, Death, and Dreams: SARCOPHAGUS, Ghanaian Style, or […]

The Taiwan pavilion–actually called a Museum–is a few steps from St. Mark’s Place on the waterfront. An enormous sign declares "The Specter of Freedom," and when you slip inside the building and up the cool marble steps into a large dark chamber to see Chung-li Kao’s animations of a saintly man gazing at a crucifix-cum-fighter […]

I have always wanted to curate an exhibition that captures the artistic climate of my contemporaries. Since 2002, I have seen a number of new young writers of the so-called ‘post-1980′ generation, such as Han Han, Guo Jingming, Chun Shu and Zhang Yueran, burst onto the Chinese literature scene. Next Station: ‘Cartoon’? Fang Fang I […]

Picasso once said, "every act of creation is first an act of destruction." Perhaps Lucy Gunning was thinking along these lines when she created Quarry, an installation recently on display at the Greene Naftali Gallery. Quarry: Lucy Gunning at Greene Naftali Gallery By Danielle Augusta Cannon Courtesy of Greene Naftali Gallery. Picasso once said, "every […]

It is early in the morning and the busses full of art journalist pull alongside a renovated building in Long Island City, Queens, concealed by an old red brick wall and a new cement brick wall. Meditations on Noguchi’s Garden-Museum By Valery Oisteanu Sculpture garden by Elizabeth Felicella It is early in the morning and […]

In 2003, The Athens Olympic Committee hosted an international competition and selected nine temporary site-specific projects to highlight the culture of the city in celebration of the Olympic Games. Measuring Crowds (Measuring the City): White Noise / White Light By Hilary Sample J. Meejin Yoon, White Noise / White Light. photograph courtesy of J. Meejin […]

Art exhibitions are often born of "propositions" that curators, after much looking and thinking, seek to illustrate through assembled works of art. In the City, Two Women By Michael Rush Carrie Moyer, “Affiche #14 (Cherry Bomb)”, 2004. Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 42 in. Courtesy of the artist Art exhibitions are often born of "propositions" […]

Herewith I offer a piece of conceptual art: an exhibition of invisible paintings and sculpture, created by myself going to museums solely to look at the other people there. Conceptual Art: People-Watching By Piri Halasz Constantin Brancusi, “The Kiss”, 1916. Limestone, 23 x 13 1/4 x 10 inches (58.4 x 33.7 x 25.4 cm). Philadelphia […]

Laurie Fendrich has been an abstract painter for over 30 years. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978, and is currently Professor of Fine Arts at Hofstra University. Striving for Perfection : In Conversation with Laurie Fendrich By Julie Karabenick Laurie Fendrich, “Augustine”, 2004, 30″ x 27″ […]