Author Archives: jolanta

A Time to Rebuild, Daniel Liebeskind in Exhibition at the Onisaburo Gallery Jill Conner Following World War II, the architectural designs of LeCorbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius flourished in America under the heading of the International Style. Best remembered as stripped-down, economical construction plans that sought to utilize vast amounts of open […]

Ana Busto’s Butterfly Swimmer 2002 at White Box Eduardo Costa Ana Busto presented in the Summer Butterfly Swimmer 2002 at White Box. The 8 x 5 Ft, color work is based on a photograph of Jesus Collado, a Spanish swimmer who won a gold medal at the most recent Olympic games in Sydney. Collado faces […]

Geoffrey Davis at Andre Zarre and The:Artist:Network Eduardo Costa “Instead of doing a lot of paintings, I did a lot of paint on one painting” says Geoff Davis. He is talking about his own work, about 30years of pigment accumulation on board, recently seen in New York City at The:Artist:Network and the Andr� Zarre Gallery, […]

William Fisk at the Forum Marlena Donohue Forum Gallery near Beverly Hills has brought to the Los Angeles art scene—a locale not historically open to figurative genres—some extremely convincing realistic art. It’s a style that’s been theoretically beleaguered in and outside L.A. The advent of the photograph, of technologies that copy the real world with […]

USI Theory Norman Douglas SPACELefebvre writes that architectural spaces represent a political use of knowledge, imply an ideology designed to conceal that use, and embody a technological simulation of the possible within the existing mode of production. Any theme proposed by any galerie or haus devoted to the presentation of art and architecture risks specialist […]

A Conversation with Kathleen Ash-Milby Jason Lujan Katheen Ash-Milby is the staff curator at the American Indian Community House Gallery in New York City. The AICH Gallery is non-profit, is the only Native American owned and operated art gallery/museum in New York City. The gallery presents a minimum of four exhibitions each year and presents […]

The Saatchi Gallery Moving and Shaking: Not-So-Young British Artists or Loc Charles Giuliano A dozen or so years ago, when I first visited the Saatchi Gallery, it represented real effort and commitment. The exhibition space, in a large, one-story industrial space, at 98A Boundary Road in St. John’s Wood, was difficult to reach by tube […]

CHANGING THE MAINSTREAM Kirk Hughey “Thepurpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers”James Baldwin One of the prevailing clichés of contemporary art is that art serves asa “mirror of its time”. How much truth underlies this assumption? Two shallow and seemingly contradictory conventions have subtended our view […]

Pop-cultural Immersion at Apex Cristina Colasanto Bringing the worksof Roberto Cuoghi, John Dogg, Nate Lowman and Kaz Oshiro together in Apexart’s2003 Summer Program is the result of a fortunate collaboration between art historianKaty Seigel and gallerists, Michele Maccarone and Mitchell Algus. Exhibitingfour young artists bound by a common interest in popular culture and media imagery,each […]

The Artistic Experiments of Patricia Piccinini Megan J. Doll The propelling force behind the works of Patricia Piccinini is that of pathos:mutant creatures, disembodied lumps of flesh and warped machinery are among themore frequent motifs of her sculptures, photographs, film clips and paintings.A prominent Australian artist with an evident ambivalence towards medical science,Piccinini deploys the […]