Author Archives: jolanta

Peter Lanyon (1918-1964) has come increasingly to be seen as one of the most important and innovative figures in 20th-century British art. The exhibition at Tate St Ives (October 9, 2010-January 8, 2011) is the first thorough retrospective for almost 40 years, focusing upon the technical qualities of his work and emphasizing his innovation and […]

Elisha Ben Yitzhak is a multifaceted artist who works in a variety of media, from oils to acrylic, drawing to watercolor. He is a virtuoso artist who has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, in venues as diverse as Zimbabwe and Switzerland, including London’s celebrated Tate Gallery. This past September, he was featured in
a group […]

Fifteen years ago, just a few months shy of his 20th birthday, Ahmed Alsoudani defaced a mural of Saddam Hussein in his Baghdad neighborhood. Alsoudani, who grew up in Baghdad, fills his paintings with vivid colors and graphic imagery depicting his feelings about war in Iraq. It was a youthful prank. Politics wasn’t part of […]

The thing to do when looking at a city is try to not look closely or sharply at the city. Look blurrily and let the shapes mass. Sometimes you’ll get the opportunity to be above the city while at the same time remaining within the city. You will be on the rooftop of a building […]

I started working with light so that I could take the spatial and color concerns of my painting into a different realm. By developing a vocabulary of various lighting technologies, reflective materials, and structures, I’ve created works that fully activate their surrounding areas. I focus on both object and space, exploiting walls and other surfaces, […]

I am compelled to explore the bounded, yet infinite depth of the picture plane. I find the territory within the second dimension to be paradoxical, especially since paint is just a physical substance without form. The same set of physical forces that holds paint to the canvas also binds us to the planet, and gives […]

We cannot see reality for what it is. What we see is something presented to us by others as their version of reality. What I try to portray is certain characteristics of a reality that I encounter in my life, or what I call, the real counterfeit. In my work, the process of molding clay […]

At first glance, Robert Lucander’ paintings belong in the tradition of Pop, and in particular, that of the first works by Andy Warhol. Like them, their subjects come from advertising illustrations and, more generally, media images. Certainly, their appearance matches this aesthetic, with its clear graphics, flat solid color, effects of symmetry, and gaps. All […]

Yehudit Sasportas works with traces of missing matter, with ghosts and shadows, both as personal and collective substance, and as a political metaphor. From William Shakespeare to Caspar David Friedrich to Andrei Tarkovsky, the landscape has had a mental function, serving as a projection, or as an expression of trauma and anxiety. In recent years, […]

I am inspired by the images, processes, and materials found in our consumer culture, and as an artist, I am curious to explore how these can be used to draw attention to the way we see reality and life around us.
    For the slip-casting workshop I chose an ordinary Jik bottle off my kitchen shelf. […]