Author Archives: jolanta

My current work reconciles my thoughts on the aftermath of recent conflicts with visions of the American desert. I grew up in the steppe of eastern Washington State; that area’s minimalist panorama and soft textures permeate my paintings. Yet deserts are the sites of some of our deepest national traumas, from Los Alamos, to the […]

Given the recently retreating tide of shamelessly over-hung art fairs that wash over the NYC art scene each year, it has become increasingly satisfying to find art installed in the exact environment that the work deserves. Thankfully, in the moment when our art comprehension faculties need the reparative experience most, we are provided with just […]

In capacity of an experienced critic and a correspondent to NY Arts Magazine, the Tribes and Modern Painters, I have followed (through various written articles, interviews and the artistic catalogues that I have personally written and supplied) the development of the most promising contemporary artists who left the country once called ‘Yugoslavia’ and who have […]

“A riveting new book, Pietro Reviglio’s Cinematography of Urban Madness questions the nature of real and imagined cinematic narratives in a visually stunning manner. The harsh lighting of an artist studio sets the tone for this short enigmatic work wherein autobiography meets fiction with violent overtones. Reviglio’s book is a quick read but densely populated […]