Author Archives: jolanta

In this age we are often surrounded by concrete, and in most cities you will find concrete areas in the process of construction. The name of the cement widely used in the world is Portland, hence the title of my work. The elements of iron scaffolding, used on construction sites and rusted by time, give […]

Shawn Kuruneru’s black-and-white portraits of figures, busts, and faces convey a slick, cold feeling of anonymity. Their visual constructs, the descriptions of muscle and hair, are anything but distant, but through the artist’s personal paths in aesthetic, they have become clean, graphic, wiping away much human recognition. In the artist’s act of portraying an individual, […]

In less sure hands, New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design’s Dead or Alive, an exhibition of 37 international artists, whose work is composed of feathers, bones, egg shells, insects, fur, antlers, dried and rotting plants, with a few stuffed birds and animals thrown in, would be a creepy, crawly experience, one that could […]

This work examines the politics of heritage. Inspired by a residency in Rome, these new works, Stop and Search, in gouache on gessoed board, carry these messages in a mosaic-like form. These texts emphasize the legalities that inform our political landscape and will be our bequest, which transcends potent messages across borders. I am building […]

Newcastle-born Amanda J. Kennington is a photographic artist who depicts well-known fairytales, ghost stories, or familiar daydreams through her photographic imagery. In many of her images, she exclusively constructs the scenes that she photographs using carefully chosen locations, models, costumes, and props. There is often a central character in Kennington’s narratives, which is frequently performed […]

Location is often influential to art scenes. Often young artists’ early work especially demonstrates this, with the artists responding to what immediately confronts them. The issue of location is at the roots of the group show, Underground on BROADWAY, at Broadway Gallery NYC in New York’s SoHo this past summer, with both artists and curator […]

The greater Near- and Middle East region has historically been at the vanguard of cultural activity in world civilization. Led by Iran and Turkey, this geographic expanse has long been considered a bastion of art and creativity. More recently, despite the most challenging of socio-political circumstances, we have witnessed a remarkable artistic and cultural revival, […]

My experience of living abroad marked a difference if compared with other artists in China. In their early works, these artists chose videography as a way to document performances; these actions were imbued with conceptual meanings, and the particular social environment in China at that time didn’t allow them to perform freely in front of […]

Our collaboration began, and has continued, as a process of giving each other “open” artworks for the other sibling to continue until it reaches what we feel to be a concluded state. The work is made often without conferring, with both of us preferring to discuss the work at either end of its creation. Once […]