Author Archives: jolanta
Girls Just Want to Have Funds
Girls Just Want to Have Funds is a contemporary art exhibition of works by women artists, featuring a panel discussion concerning gender and representation in the visual arts and a benefit art auction. All proceeds from tickets and art sales support the Foundation’s two independent grant programs for emerging visual artists and travel grants for […]
Figuratively Speaking
The exhibition Marked features six young artists, Chino Amobi, Alison Blickle, Brendan Lott, Jenny Morgan, Reuben Negron, and Robin Williams, all taking hold of the figure as they represent and reflect their strong, fertile, and multilayered independent narratives. The artists in this show use various methods, from mark-making to layering materials and concepts, to forcing […]
A Twisted Tango
My recent work deals with themes such as sexual perversion, as well as occult and Thelemic imagery and symbolism. There are also a lot of underlying themes of isolation, sorrow, and mangled senses of self. I try to convey grief and introspective mourning in poignant and relatable ways. Most of my work is narrative in […]
Portraits of Candor
Success came late to Alice Neel. In the first 40 years of her career she exhibited only sporadically and generally in little known group exhibitions, or in small galleries allied to left-wing causes. Although outgoing and gregarious, she lacked confidence in her realist art at a time when abstraction was ascendant. Isolated in Spanish Harlem […]
Pablo Sebastián Pisacco
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A Fluid Display for the Masses
At one point I asked myself, if the human body is 90-percent water, then what makes up the other ten percent? This question started me photographing people I knew in stages of submerging in and out of water. I’ve often used my friends as models in my experiments, so they are cautious when I make […]
Personalized Memories
Recently, I made some pieces for the Son of Heaven series and the Memory series. Son of Heaven is a series of some colored eggs. Memory is a series of oil paintings where the subjects are black-and-white photographs from my childhood. These works chronologically echo my previous pieces. In my work, the bird is a […]
The Greater Picture
Rashid Rana critiques culturally constructed, negative stereotypes of women through his work, whether in relation to the sexual objectification of women through the pornography industry, or in relation to how the burqa is worn and perceived as a political symbol in a post-9/11 era. In the Veil Series I, II, & III, Rana depicts an […]
