Author Archives: jolanta
Point of Rupture
It’s more than just a moment captured; it’s an entire envelopment of what seems to be a delusive reality, unveiled and illuminated. Self-taught South African photographer, Pieter Hugo, creates a charged space between the lens and the subject, in full engagement with the environment. Each individual photographed shares a remarkable story through Hugo’s lens, revealing […]
Makeshift Landscapes
I began the Constructions series in late 2005 while visiting London. I’d met up with a friend the day before and we’d stayed up for the sunrise, then I walked around the city the next afternoon. I was tired, but moving fast and shooting, looking all around, and checking my camera when I suddenly realized […]
Ginny Reed
My practice is concerned with contrasting different aspects of production, including video, photography, drawing, installation, and performance. My artworks and performances explore the accumulation and dispersal of everyday materials, highlighting the residues and remnants of “events.” Through an abiding concern with the idea of trace, I explore dematerialization and the relationship between the “fixed” and […]
Restraint and Relief
My paintings are montages of portraits, figures, miniature landscapes, fragments of objects, and an eclectic array of cherished objects. I tend to think of it as a collection of objects in a “curiosity cabinet” similar to those of the 17th century. Every image I paint is a picture or object that I have collected for […]
Work Ethic
I have been a full-time artist since graduating in fine arts from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 1996. Recently I have made the transition from oils to pastels, and it is mostly in this more direct medium I portray South African laborers in full work attire and within their working environments. By treating […]
Baldessari: Equally Cool and Visceral
Equally cool and visceral, John Baldessari’s impressive, handsome, understated selection from two interrelated series marks his territory in two formal investigations some conceptual photographers began in the 80’s. In the “Windows” series, Baldessari works through the relationship between painting and photography, as Duane Michals did in shows at Sidney Janis. In “Columns,” he composes multi-paneled […]
Breaking Out of District 9
My work is informed by my experiences as a result of my mixed African heritage. I was classified “colored” under South African apartheid classification, but being fair-skinned, I was simultaneously labeled as “whitey” within this community. My work explores the confines of these narrow labels. I aim to reflect on and counter the systems and […]
Noreen Larinde
My images employ a woman, a particular setting, and a flower, elements deriving from the Japanese aesthetic of Yugen My images employ a woman, a particular setting, and a flower, elements deriving from the Japanese aesthetic of Yugen, which forms the basis of the Zen drama called Noh, a highly symbolic and religious drama. According to this […]
Impulsive Pieces
I sit at a big wooden table and piece together fragments of the world around me. My goal is to pause a moment in time just long enough for examination. As today’s world edges closer to chaos, and we are inundated with imagery and information, the centuries-old art form of collage is more relevant than […]
Fossil Foundations
The core of my current body of works is dealing with middle stages, focusing on a critical, compressed moment. Through the mediums of sculpture, installation, drawing and collage, I investigate aspects of banal evil, bureaucratic violence, and alienation that exist underneath the surface and threaten to emerge. In my “laboratory,” I use nature as a […]
