Author Archives: jolanta
Communal Silhouettes
Works in Xiao Yu’s exhibition Turn Around are not attached to any particular social context and knowledge. In these works, Xiao is obviously evading any textual meaning, which is often an unavoidable part in many works of Chinese contemporary art. In an unexpected way, the artist successfully appropriated the rich oriental quality of bamboo as […]
Society of Illustrators presents An Evening at the Museum of American Illustration
The Society of Illustrators and the Museum of American Illustration invite you to view the third and final part of their Annual Exhibition, Illustrators 53: Advertising and Institutional Exhibit. The Society of Illustrators and the Museum of American Illustration invite you to view the third and final part of their Annual Exhibition, Illustrators 53: Advertising […]
Roxy Paine, One Hundred Foot Line
Roxy Paine, One Hundred Foot Line @ National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada Roxy Paine, One Hundred Foot Line @ National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada A monumental new sculpture now graces one of Ottawa’s most picturesque skylines, thanks to a new acquisition by the National Gallery of Canada. At 30.5 metres high, […]
Love Letters, Group Show @ Manila Contemporary
Love Letters, Group Show, Saturday, February 12, 6-8pm @ Manila Contemporary, Metro Manila, Philippines Love Letters, Group Show, Saturday, February 12, 6-8pm @ Manila Contemporary, Metro Manila, Philippines Is love something we still find necessary to articulate through the written word and how, in the 21st century do we communicate the complexity of this human […]
Philip-Lorca diCorcia, ELEVEN
Philip-Lorca diCorcia, ELEVEN, Saturday, February 10-March 5, 2011 @ David Zwirner Philip-Lorca diCorcia, ELEVEN, Saturday, February 10-March 5, 2011 @ David Zwirner David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of fashion photographs by Philip-Lorca diCorcia. On view at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space, the works were selected from a series of eleven […]
Eric Rhein, Transmutation
Eric Rhein, “Transmutation”, Saturday, February 12, 6-8pm @ BoxOFFICE Eric Rhein, “Transmutation”, Saturday, February 12, 6-8pm @ BoxOFFICE BoxoFFICE is proud to present Transmutation, a solo exhibition by Eric Rhein. Rhein, a native of New York’s Hudson Valley, is known for his refined and passionate wire drawings that combine human forms with animal and […]
Made Anew
Man&Eve recently opened its new exhibition venue with The Borrowed Loop, a group exhibition featuring work by Iain Andrews, Karin Brunnermeier, Filippo Caramazza, Bouke de Vries, Ori Gersht, Henrietta Simson, Esther Teichmann, and Michael Whittle. The exhibition takes its title from Nicholas Bourriaud’s 2002 book Postproduction, in which the modern-day artist’s use of appropriation is […]
Coming into Focus
Launched in 2008, the Prix Pictet is a prize that highlights artistic achievements in photography and sustainability.We aim to let the works speak unimpeded by curatorial ornament or intervention. At the heart of the Prix Pictet lies the idea that photography of the highest quality can communicate messages of critical importance to the future of […]
Virginia Bodman
Virginia Bodman’s paintings and drawings investigate, and give form and presence to ideas about the nature of memory, absence, and exile. Her current work centers on notions of remembrance and celebrates the durability and communicativeness of “things.” She uses a rich mix of visual material drawn from heraldry, nature, 19th-century paintings, and arcane domestic paraphernalia. […]
Sharon Wilson
Sharon Wilson is trained as a painter, but has since developed her career as a multimedia artist and curator who uses video, found objects, digital imagery, drawings, and sound. Interested in the media as a divisive tool for shaping public motivations, as well as looking at the edifices of architecture, of which social control is […]
