Author Archives: jolanta
Hans Haacke 1967 at MIT
Hans Haacke is a world-renowned artist whose work explores, both natural (such as geological and meteorological) and social (including governmental and corporate) processes. Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1936, Haacke received his degree in 1960 from the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany. He then worked in Paris at the print studio of Stanley William Hayter, […]
Around The World: Valentina Ciarallo Interviews Ian Tweedy
Valentina Ciarallo: Who is Dephect? Ian Tweedy: Dephect is an alter ego of mine. I have had others but Dephect was most widely used and also known to the public. Dephect was a strategy, a way to penetrate different playing fields at one time, an artist, a guide, an activist, and a vandal. “When I […]
Noris Dias
“I use strong colors, sometimes almost pure-ones.” Courtesy of the artist. Noris Maria Dias www.noris.no Searching for simplicity; I want to express emotions, opinions combined with a vibrating mixture of colors and figurative symbolism. I want to tell a story from the beginning, initiate a discussion, make people think and let them dream. The […]
Kathy Clavette
“When I am painting, music is omnipresent.” Courtesy of the artist. Kathy Clavettewww.kathyclavette.com As a former drafter, I prefer flowers and ponds as subjects. They allow me to paint other things than straight lines, making room for gesture. Flowers need water, which is the reason it is almost always present in my painting. I […]
Big, Bold, and Undeniably Ambitious: Jonathan Prince at the Sculpture Garden in NYC
The work of Massachusetts based artist, Jonathan Prince—currently on view until November 18 at the Sculpture Garden in the atrium of the old IBM building in New York City, under the title “Torn Steel”—like the artist himself who resembles Julian Schnabel, is big, bold, and undeniably ambitious. But underneath the swagger of the man and […]
Jennie C. Jones: Absorb/Diffuse
Jennie C. Jones’ new show at the Kitchen places the viewer within the divide between the physical permanence of material and the ethereality of the sonic. The gallery space serves as a venue to situate a series of paintings in direct relation to a darkly resonant sonic backdrop. Jones has used a process she has […]
Nora Garcia
“Each work celebrates life” Courtesy of the artist. Nora Garciagabeaar@yahoo.com.ar My work is self-referential. The objects comprise a reunion between chance and my own experience in life. Each work celebrates life, rescuing elements that memory had relegated and deep affections of my own existence. Combining lost and recuperated memories; […]
Disgust in LA: Asco Returns
Like a long-forgotten punk band from the 1970s—perhaps the art world’s equivalent to the New York Dolls—Asco makes a vibrant return to public consciousness with an elegant, formal retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As is often the case when talent has been long unrecognized, the exhibition is a bittersweet and somewhat […]
Installation Design by Zaha Hadid at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Zaha Hadid, one of the most innovative architects of the 21st century and the first woman to receive the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004, has advanced the language of contemporary architecture and design, exploring complex fluid geometries and using cutting-edge digital design and fabrication technologies. For Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion, an exhibition at […]
New Museum Presents First Survey of Works by Carsten Höller in New York
The New Museum presents the first New York survey exhibition of the work of the artist Carsten Höller (b.1961, Brussels, lives and works Stockholm). Over the past twenty years, Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and fun house, exploring such themes as safety, childhood, love, happiness, transportation, and the future. Höller […]
