Author Archives: jolanta
The Workers
We all know what Rosie the Riveter looked like, and what she stood for. Ford-era production line labor—and the rise of powerful unions—left us indelible portraits of work in mid 20th century America. Before that, Dickens created searing portraits of labor in the proto-industrial era, as Millet and his followers recorded a vivid picture […]
Talking Trademark: Interview with Simon Raab.
Interviewer: Why do you think you are an artist? Simon: Ignoring the implication of that question. I think I am an artist because I am full of existential angst seeking to be expressed through thought‐filled imagery. I am secretly yearning for critical approval. My official artist’s statement says I am confused by the boundaries between […]
Dalia Carella Dance Collective’s 10 Year Retrospective: From the Ancient to the Avant-Garde!
For 39 years Dalia Carella has studied, performed and taught traditional dance forms of various cultures. Her journey as a choreographer of world dance has spanned from ancient traditions to the contemporary and the avant-garde. In her early career, she was a risk taker in the near eastern dance scene—bringing the mystical vision into a […]
Lower East Side on the Screen-Evolving Urban Identity
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, created in 1961, is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. MM Serra and Anne Hanavan—curators in charge from The Film-Maker’s Coop—together with Javier Moreno and Marta Arenal from the Angel Orensanz Foundation, have put together an audacious, noteworthy film program with titles culled from […]
“Pointing a Telescope at the Sun” at Minus Space
MINUS SPACE is pleased to present Pointing a Telescope at the Sun, a group exhibition highlighting abstract color painting by five highly-influential NYC-based artists: Gabriele Evertz, Vincent Longo, Doug Ohlson, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Doug Ohlson (1936-2010) who passed away last year at age 73. […]
Fibers of Brooklyn: A Woman’s Work
The Textile Arts Center in Carroll Gardens did not bill the inaugural “Artists in Residence” exhibition as a feminist project. But here, women’s labor of the millennia, work produced in and for the sphere of the home, to cover themselves, to envelop others, was assembled under the heading “art” rather than the diminutive “craft.” Pieces […]
Uta Barth at 1301PE Gallery
1301PE is pleased to announce its second exhibition with internationally renowned artist Uta Barth. Since the early 1990ʼs, Barth has made visual perception the primary content of her work. The Ground and Field series brought her to international attention and this attention has continued as each of the following projects presented observations about human perception […]
Twinned Towers: Al Braithwaite at Leila Heller Gallery
“Art is the one place for us to go, for all this stuff to be shored up. The stuff of 9/11 is too big to carry in silence. It has to be summoned up and detoxified. To have the conversation after ten years, to reflect in new ways, might alleviate some of the anxiety […]
Dorothea Rockburne at the Parrish Art Museum
The Parrish Art Museum is a great excuse to trek out to the beach, especially on a non-beach day. Nestled in Southhampton, it is soon to inhabit a nearby cornfield where it will have the impact as a kind of huge incubator of contemporary art. Its design mirrors turn of the century dairy farms, but […]
Jamie Dalglish: Three Triptychs
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