Author Archives: jolanta
Grégoire Devin: Street To Canvas
innovative experimentation Grégoire Devin, Go Play a Video Game, 2012. 120 x 150 cm, Mixed media. Grégoire Devin: Street To Canvas By Paul Gost Grégoire Devin, an up and coming 34 year old French artist, brilliantly evokes mental, urban ideas through his paintings. While using street art as a base, Devin integrates concepts and […]
Maria Jaakkola: Captivating Watercolors
By Jill Smith Neo-Impressionistic art is something that is very difficult to master; as opposed to painting something the way that you see it, the way it appears in nature. The artist, instead of simply rendering a representational image, imbues personal feelings in relation to a given subject. This becomes more complex as one […]
Jean-Marc Schwaller: Evoking The Nature Around And Within
By Allison A Van Spankeren While not a figurative painter in the traditional sense, Swiss artist Jean-Marc Schwaller gives attention and emphasis to the tangible world, as his work often focuses on the abstraction of nature. Schwaller brilliantly transforms realistic subjects, such as water gardens and landscapes, into visceral compilations of light and color. Schwaller […]
Alessandro Di Cola
sutured images courtesy of the artist Alessandro Di Cola: Sutured Images By Paul Gost Alessandro Di Cola is an artist whose work captures memory, color and imagination and stitches it into a sublime moment for all eternity. Since his graduation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, the Italian painter and sculptor has […]
Feminist and Post-Feminist Art: A Dialogue With The Past
With Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney Museum and Cindy Sherman at MoMA, this past year has seated women artists at the forefront of the New York art scene. These impressive retrospectives called attention not only to the force and depth of the artistic creation of women, but also to the woman as subject matter in […]
Brothers’ Game
Fraternal twins Alan and Michael Fleming have been living together since childhood, and collaborating in their shared space since 2005. That is, until Alan moved from Chicago to New York. With time apart, their dynamic evolved. “This exhibition marks a temporary hiatus in our collaboration. Not that we stopped making work, but that after many […]
Affirmative Action in the 21st Century?
This past Saturday FLUX Harlem hosted a panel discussion at Art Speaks! Gallery. The talk covered the controversial topic of a post-racial society. Positing the question: how does the idea of a “post racial” America impact how we currently view the world? Can America ever look past race? With election day ahead, this theme has […]
Susanna Tanger
I almost always begin from the need to express a feeling and in response to what happens to me in real life. I almost always begin from the need to express a feeling and in response to what happens to me in real life. I choose the medium; oil paint on stretched canvas usually, […]
James Welling
James Welling was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1951. He grew up in nearby Simsbury where, in 1963, he began to study art with Julie Post. James Welling was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1951. He grew up in nearby Simsbury where, in 1963, he began to study art with Julie Post. In 1965 […]
Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas grew up in Stellenbosch but has lived and worked mainly in the Netherlands since 1975. Through her focus on the human figure, Dumas merges themes of race… Marlene Dumas grew up in Stellenbosch but has lived and worked mainly in the Netherlands since 1975. Through her focus on the human figure, Dumas […]
