Author Archives: jolanta

Visions of Emprisonment Michael Cohn       John Adams, Lone Star Hell     “Inner Visions” featuredthe work of artists incarcerated at prisons around the country. Many of theexhibits, which appeared at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park South, havea political bent, demonstrating that while these artists are confined, theyremain engaged with the […]

Marusela Granell. El paisaje de la emoci�n.Ferran Bono Marusela Granell, la luz de aquella tarde. El paisajesiempre ha estado presente en la obra de Marusela Granell. A lo largo de su trayectoria,esta artista valenciana ha transitado por diversos caminos art�sticos que lehan llevado a diferentes t�cnicas y soportes, pero su mirada siempre se hadetenido en […]

Gentle Intoxication – Stars Like Fleas, Sun Lights Down on the Fence Stephanie R. Myers           Stars Like Fleas wasformed by Montgomery Knott (vocals) and Shannon Fields (multi-instrumentalist)in 1998 and their first record, Took the Ass for a Drivestyle=’font-family:Verdana’> remains unreleased. For Sun Lights Down on theFence, Stars spent almost twoyears […]

Illuminated Brush Strokes Pamela A. Popeson Sky Pape, Thesis, 2003. Sumi Ink on Kozo paper, 72.5�x48�. You knowthe feeling you get standing under a star-studded night sky where all at onceyou’re struck by the overwhelming enormity of life and the unsubstantialfragility of your own puny existence? Where you want to weep at theinconceivable beauty of […]

Nadia Russ: NeoPopRealism Olga Chemokhud Doty     Nadia Russ, His Inner, 2002, Acrylic on canvas, 30�x40�.         "Fivethings I like the most: 1.    Music; 2.    Sex with man I love; 3.    Art; 4.    Lobsters; 5.    Cuban cigars, especially Cohiba Everyday switch the numbers.”   style="mso-spacerun: yes"> "Some people have brains, otherpeople […]

Unforeseen Ahead: Maria Hjelmeland Perry McPartland Thesemight just turn out to be exciting times for painters yet. One ofpostmodernism’s most exciting leads is its allowance for the possibleappropriation of all past forms, without these forms bearing the defininglimits of their contemporaneous theory. And in so far as postmodernismrepresents a critically theoretical response to theory, it […]

PhotoCairo William Wells, Director   Jihan Ammar, Shahrzad � Cologne, 2003.     One yearlater, we find ourselves assessing the effects of PhotoCairo 2002, a self-styledcultural experiment that materialized in largely organic fashion – a responseto evident interest within local artistic communities as to photography in allof its breadth. In that year, visible gains have […]

Picks Christopher Chambers Ray Smith, Empire I, 2003. Oil on canvas, 74�diameter. I once had a job in an art gallery. I suppose thedesignation “art handler” would best describe my duties of patching walls,building crates, and installing shows, as well as just sort of hanging around(which used to drive me crazy). I even ran an […]

 Possible Music Vivek Narayanan         Accordingto the rules of the set in BRIC Studio’s experimental series, PossibleFireworks, awell-known innovative musician is invited to pick a band of people that she orhe admires but has never played with before, tune up with them a little, thenplay. It ought to be a terrifying thought, […]

SHOCKING! & DARING: Schiaparelli Lives! L. Brandon Krall Elsa Schiaparelli (French, born Italy, 1890 � 1973), Boots, Summer 1938, Gift of Mme Elsa Schiaparelli to the PMA, 1969.   ElsaSchiaparelli (1890-1974) was a first among “modern” women of the 20thcentury. Like a lightening rod, a diviner’s wand, Schiap [pronounced ‘Skap’]responded to the immediate cultural and […]