Author Archives: jolanta

W. G. Sebald died in December of 2001 in a car accident in Norwich England during a particularly bad winter when the roads had turned to ice. "I don’t think you can write from a compromised moral position," he had said in an interview earlier that year. His commitment to this position put him at […]

In New York, where anything interesting in the overpopulated expanses of the art world is hard to come by, exists a subculture with a vocabulary rooted in graffiti, tattoo art, hot rod detailing, comic book illustration, punk rock and hip-hop. It’s practitioners look down on Andy Warhol as a vapid rip-off artist who took their […]

Ritchard Rodriguez was a realist painter for a good fifteen years before deciding to make the dramatic switch to abstract art. He attributes the change to a trip to Germany in 1981 to see the Neue Sachlichkeit paintings especially those of Otto Dix. Being in Germany pried his eyes open and made him hungry for […]

The European Fine Arts Fair (TEFAF) is now regarded as one of the most, if not the most influential art and antiques event in the world. Several factors have contributed to this. The exhibitors are very international. There are some 200 leading art and antiques dealers from fourteen countries. Although the fair takes place in […]

Anna Socha VanMatre’s paintings scream at the viewer–expressing VanMatre’s shock and fear and hope. Her post-September 11 works act as a cry for sanity, their emotional content even more penetrating then VanMatre’s previous works. VanMatre, a Polish born artist who has been painting since 1978, constructs graphite paintings on monumental three-dimensional surfaces. Her works have […]

"Just as Kandinsky and Miro strove to create visual interpretations of jazz and classical music with line, shape and color, so my focus is to visualize the essence of Latin music in texture and color. I integrate primary colors, as well as tropical colors and shapes into harmonies that explode into saucy riffs and spontaneous […]