Author Archives: jolanta

Amidst soft jazz harmonies and a pleased, smiling crowd, Sue Melikian Steinsieck?s recent exhibition at Broadway Gallery, "Bird on a Wire", featured a beautiful series of her latest melodic, pinctoral compositions. For these large, layered, mixed media drawings, Steinsieck drew her inspiration from nature. Like a Bird on a Wire Erica Snow courtesy of the […]

Ball�ngee is probably best known for attempting to breed an extinct species of frog back into existence. The gallery ad describes him thus, "This young artist merges art and science in multidisciplinary installations." I’ve described him in previous reviews as a pioneer of Sci-Art, the attempt by artists to do serious science by using the […]

Solvent Space has quickly become Richmond, Virginia?s hot new venue because of its experimental nature and overt industrial feel. For its first show, and in the main gallery space, installation artist James Hyde placed "Large Air Cushion" (2002), a painted linen, 20 foot by 30 foot pillow case around a vinyl bladder that is inflated […]

The work of the French collective Bureau d’Etudes/Universit� Tangente looks like a challenge lost before it has begun. Power —Mapping By Marco Antonini “Governing by Networks” (detail) 2003 (pdf image from http://utangente.free.fr ) The work of the French collective Bureau d’Etudes/Universit� Tangente looks like a challenge lost before it has begun. Active on the web […]

West Oakland?s emerged warehouse art venue LoBot Gallery is at an advantage that many art galleries never arrive at, all within its infancy of fours months, mostly in part to its founders? unique vision of the art scene in the Bay Area. Cofounders and artists Adam Hatch and Caleb Rogers fill a niche that was […]

Klimt’s teeming backgrounds are here, as is Schiele’s strange mixture of elegance and ponderous sadness. Last Chance: Ilya Schar’s Mortal Colors By Jamey Hecht   “Why”       Klimt’s teeming backgrounds are here, as is Schiele’s strange mixture of elegance and ponderous sadness. Consider "Why," a big canvass (34" x 49") with a prisoner […]

In the exhibition announcement for "Adaptation Syndrome: Painting in Contemporary Image Culture" curators Dinah and Paul Ryan ask, "When almost anyone can create an arresting visual image, how do painters respond?" This refers to the fact that, in this age of high technology and seemingly unlimited possibilities, "Contemporary culture has become in many respects more […]