Author Archives: jolanta
Confrontation At Forum Box Gallery
Törmälehto’s work stands out as an exciting combination controlled spontaneity and coincidences where stiff paintwork is applied lovingly against lighter marks. His irrational confrontations are embodied through a variation of “bad painting” techniques with delicate, beautiful strokes. Here the distinction between good and bad is delicate – if it even exists at all. The third […]
Grete Jacobsen: Illuminating Light
powerful confrontation “Rothko initiated color as a prism through which to access deeper, dormant human emotions, and Jacobsen advances this endeavor with nuance and idiosyncrasy.” Grete Jacobsen, Harmony. Courtesy of the artist. Grete Jacobsen: Illuminating Light By Jill Smith Caked in thick blues and cracked greens, Grete Jacobsen’s canvases remind one of the Earth’s […]
Russell Tyler At The Window 125
Employing a loose geometry, heavily applied, neon oil paint and a paired down aesthetic, Russell Tyler has created a unique painting language. Working in a more is more fashion; the artist pushes pattern-based imagery into new territory. Specifically in a work such as Data (2012) Tyler creates the effect of a broken T.V. screen circa […]
Jordi Alcaraz at Tomlinson Kong Contemporary
The title of this exhibition, loosely translates to “Wakes and Doors.” A common hallmark of this artist’s work is the rupture or manipulation of the acrylic surface. These ruptures behave as doors or corridors pointing the eye toward the space separating the viewer from the work while “deixants,” the word used for the trail or […]
Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of the Infinite
“McElheny’s oeuvre combines the legacy of conceptual art and a keen interest in history with an extremely high proficiency in glass blowing, a degree of craftsmanship almost completely outmoded in today’s art world,” said Molesworth. “Over the past two decades, the problem of infinity has driven McElheny’s efforts to represent the unrepresentable, as the infinite […]
Divine Beauty: Video Artist Lee Lee Nam
Alternatively, New Dan Bal Ryeong, Mang Geum Gang is presented on a single monitor. The origin of this work is from Jeun Sun, a Chosun Dynasty landscape artist. There are two mountains; one is the famous Geum Gang San (Diamond Mountain), which is presented on the left side of the work and Dan Bal Ryeong […]
Andrew Zarou at Robert Henry Contemporary
Spray-painted and found printed papers cut into diamonds and triangles make up the seemingly random compositions of the Flotilla series. As the name suggests, the arrangements of shapes and colors looks like a flotilla of ships on the sea as seen from above. A flotilla is usually composed of a homogeneous group of the same […]
Dark Interiors & Bright Landscapes
Lauren Luloff’s solo exhibition of large-scale paintings will occupy the ground floor of the Halsey McKay Gallery. Richly layered, complex activity propels the construction of these works as the artist layers bleach-stained bed sheets, muslin, transparent fabric and varying viscosities of oil paint. Luloff’s paintings are constructed, layered and torn, coalescing into moody evocations of […]
Volta’s Summer Vision In Basel
VOLTA is a platform for presenting the vision of contemporary art galleries of global repute whose artists represent new and relevant positions for curators and collectors alike. Conceived to bridge a gap between Basel’s pre-existing fairs, VOLTA showcases galleries–whether young or mature–that choose as their mandate to work with the most exciting emerging artists. The […]
Joseph Nechvatal’s “nOise anusmOs”
Black is immanent to itself; it is the color of undivided nothingness that has yet to be penetrated by light. Upon entering Galerie Richard, black was my instant impression of Joseph Nechvatal’s “nOise anusmOs,” for most of his new paintings are unified by a black background. Against the black backdrop are intricate and complex webs […]
