Author Archives: jolanta

Monochromes of Siri Berg Jamey Hecht  Siri Berg’s monochromes are only comprehensible in this age of mechanical reproduction. They are the human version of a digital product so commonplace that we can barely remember how historically recent it is: just as every color television videotape of forty years ago begins with a  rainbow test-screen of solid […]

Siri Berg: Then and Now Heli Haapasalo Siri Berg: Then and Nowis an exhibition of geometric abstraction. It includes paintings, collages andassemblages created over a period of several years. Within these different techniquesa gradual but systematic exploration of color, form, pattern and texture developed.The repetition of geometric shapes is a method of art making which […]

Core Sample: Portland, Oregon as a Rebel Base Jeff Jahn You’ve heard about Portland; you havefriends who are moving there and you’re wondering what’s going on?Well, I have met your friends and we’ve taken over the place. Remember storiesof artists having the run of New York or Paris? That is what’s happeningin Portland now: art […]

Wallace Whitney Giordano Pozzi Wallace Whitney’s exhibition of newpaintings at Canada, an exiting new gallery space at 55 Chrystie Street in NewYork, is without a doubt one of the finest shows of contemporary painting thatI have come across in recent memory. The exhibition consists of twelve new workson canvas and panels that vary in size […]

FROM A TABLE ON AVENUE ‘C’ The care and feeding of angels AUSTIN JOHN MARSHALL  In the spirit of Arthur Schnitzler, fin-de-siecleViennese boulvardier, my vantage point is on the corner of Avenue C and East7th St at Zum Schneider, New York’s downtown Bavarian Beergarden.  Here,sporting my father’s RAF insignia on my cap but receiving no […]

Pop-cultural Immersion at Apex Cristina Colasanto Bringing the works of Roberto Cuoghi, John Dogg, Nate Lowman and Kaz Oshiro together in Apexart’s 2003 Summer Program is the result of a fortunate collaboration between art historian Katy Seigel and gallerists, Michele Maccarone and Mitchell Algus. Exhibiting four young artists bound by a common interest in popular […]

September Picks Christopher Chambers September Picks Despite the ups and downs of the economy new art spaces continue to open. Brooklyn and the Lower East Side are such vast subjects that I can’t even face starting a realistic survey, so we will have to settle for a selection of a few new enterprises in Chelsea […]

Zero and the Drop of Water: Mineo Rosanna Albertini Opening nights in Chinatown sometimes sink into a diffuse sense of displacement, with art galleries buzzing like hives in silent neighborhoods that blend into the fluid flatness of the freeways. Yet, in the dim light of Chung King Road, the model airplanes in the windows at […]

Michael Tracy: SCULPTURES AND INSTALLATIONS Horace Brockington Michael Tracy remains one of the most distinctive sculptors/artists of his generation. Extremely private, but equally intense during the 80s and early 90s Michael Tracy created a body of sculpture that defied the minimalism and conceptual tendencies of the time. Tracy has lived in TRexas for much of […]

INTERVIEW SIRI BERG IN SWEDISH BY CATARINA ASTROM Datam�sskulor, kullager, delar av turbofl�ktar och bilr�cken. I konstn�rinnan Siri Bergs m�lningar v�cks gamla n�tta tr�tta bruksf�rem�l till nytt liv. Fascinationen f�r industriprodukter f�ddes redan i slutet p� 70-talet. Det var p� den tiden n�r man kunde inhandla det mesta av sm�delar f�r 5 cent och upp�t […]