Author Archives: jolanta
Shunsuke Kawasaki
Caption: Courtesy of the artist. Shunsuke Kawasaki www.tongpharandsunsetscorn.com The frame of thing has very unexpected sense of existence. I think that the state until the completing is the most beautiful about the building and house and so on too. Frame is all of the base. Because the building and the living thing […]
John Allcock
“The intertwining of two ancient trees, exposed on a mountainside, seemed to convey at one and the same time both erotic involvement and antagonistic struggle. “ Caption: Courtesy of the artist. John Allcock www.artbyallcock.co.uk Although my work in general can be characterised as “landscape,” typically my […]
Leah Oates Interviews Yasuomi Hashimura
Leah Oates: What is your background and what was your progression as an artist? Yasuomi Hashimura: After I had left Japan in the late ’60s and after my couple years in Hawaii, I finally made it to the American mainland. I attended the Art Center of Design in Pasadena for a very short while because […]
Modern Idol
Walking into sculptor David J. Merritt’s studio is like walking into a gathering of friends and strangers. There are heads everywhere, humorous, personal, and impetuous. Merritt works quickly, in the moment. Unfired clay, tape, and foam capture his gestures and impulsivity. Dozens of colorful faces might still be moving under invisible hands. Their absurd features […]
Lee Ables
“The fact that I choose the non-representational mode as a means of expression is because I feel that I can best stir the imagination of the viewer in this manner.” Lee Ables www.leeables.com It has always been my feeling that a work of art has to be more than mere reproduction of something […]
The Extravagant Constructions of Joyce Melander-Dayton
The title of Santa Fe-based artist Joyce Melander-Dayton’s current outing at the June Kelly Gallery in New York City reads Extravagant Constructions, an apt title, especially when you are standing up close and studying the artist’s intricately bejeweled craftsmanship and her use of materials and patterning (think Fabergé Egg or the Gobelin Tapestries). The work […]
IDOL: Becoming the Ritual Shrine: Video Works of Sam Clagnaz
Hatshrine (2008), a 7-minute video piece by Sam Clagnaz, watches the faceless artist slowly and methodically assemble a shrine in his home. He places a plastic soda bottle on a straw seat, exits the frame, and returns to place wigs and hats on top of the bottle—the idol is emerging—one by one. The artist then […]
Mladen Stilinovic, Lugwid Museum, Budapest Through July 3
Mladen Stilinovic, Lugwid Museum, Budapest Through July 3 LUDWIG MUSEUM BUDAPEST BUDAPEST Through July 3 Curated by Branka Stipančić and Katalin Székely
ArtHamptons 2011
ArtHamptons 2011 ArtHamptons 2011 Southampton, NY July 7-10 ArtHamptons 2011: The Fourth Edition Of The Top Fine Art Fair In The Hamptons. 4,000 Works by 500 Artists Represented by 77 Galleries from 10 Countries July 7 – 10, 2011.
Menasart Fair 2011, Beirut, Lebanon. July 13-16, 2011
Menasart Fair 2011 Beirut, Lebanon. July 13-16, 2011
