Author Archives: jolanta
A Hung Garden, Youth Group Gallery, NYC July 22-July 23
A Hung Garden, Youth Group Gallery, NYC July 22-July 23 A Hung Garden, Youth Group Gallery 407 Johnson Avenue, Williamsburg. July 22 – July 23, 2011. Opening: Friday, July 22, 6 – 4 AM
A Gentil Carioca
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a group exhibition organized by the Rio de Janeiro-based gallery A GENTIL CARIOCA, featuring five artists from this gallery’s program. Artists in the show include Ricardo Basbaum, Carlos Contente, Laura Lima, Maria Nepomuceno, and Thiago Rocha Pitta. A GENTIL CARIOCA is a gallery situated in the Central Historic district of Rio […]
Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely Review
Laurel Nakadate (born 1975) is an American photographer, video, and performance artist based in New York City. She has been exhibiting her work since 2002, and in 2005 art critic Jerry Saltz called her a “standout” at the “Greater New York” show at MoMA P.S.1. In addition to photography and video, Nakadate is also known […]
Carole Feuerman “Hyperbodies?” Hyperrealism… Sculptures of Excitement
Thursday June 16th, AIR Art Gallery presented a private viewing of the exhibition “Hyperbodies” by Carole Feuerman, the celebrated New York artist who returned to Florence, leading us to the discovery of a new reality. As the viewer crosses the gallery threshold, she is immediately hit by a sudden and unconscious blindness, in which everything […]
In Conversation: Leah Oates Interviews Rebecca Morgan
Leah Oates: What is your background and when did you know you would be an artist? Rebecca Morgan: I am from a conservative farm town in Western Central Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny/Appalachian Mountains. I grew up with a very limited scope and basically non-existent understanding of art and its precedents, even though I drew still […]
Kent Dorn, “Remains”
At his first solo show in New York at Freight and Volume, Kent Dorn’s paintings sit somewhere between horror and beauty. His canvases are a personal approximation of the sublime, painting portraits of drifters and outsiders interpreted as lepers or apparitions. These displaced souls are sometimes undressing, doing mysterious things in a somber landscape littered […]
Furling the Spanker: Masterworks from the Chadwicks’ Nautical Collection
Having weathered what appears to be the deep end of the economic downturn, Chelsea is trying its best to dig its fingernails to into that crusty upper-layer NY Art scene status. It just so happens that hot young artists, along with those with more refined sensibilities still prefer to be shown in their large, raw, […]
A Journey with Alexander McQueen
Hundreds of thousands of visitors have accepted the late designer’s invitation, descending on the Metropolitan Museum in flocks to see “Savage Beauty,” a multi-media exhibition of McQueen’s couture curated by Andrew Bolton of the Museum’s Costume Institute. With the exhibit half over and visitors still patiently waiting hours upon hours for entry, the Museum announced […]
Only Her Body
Following Yang Shaobin’s environmentally-themed solo show Blue Room, he returns to UCCA to curate Only Her Body, an exhibition of luminous landscapes from talented young painter Kong Lingnan. This is the eleventh in UCCA’s series of “Curated by…” exhibitions, which aim to foster a new generation of Chinese artists by pairing them with established artists […]
In Conversation: Jason Stopa Interviews Katherine Bradford
Jason Stopa: I like that your paintings seem to hover somewhere between the imaginary and the real. In a sense, they arrive at third space that is akin to a dream-like state. Can you tell me how you arrived at painting this way? Katherine Bradford: My early paintings were abstract; I thought of myself as […]
