Author Archives: jolanta

Leah Oates: Why did you become an artist, and what do you think the function of an artist is in society?Sasha Bezzuvov: I became an artist probably for the same reason many people become artists. What other activity allows a grown-up to spend entire days walking around their house in underwear without the disgrace of […]

D. Dominick Lombardi: On the outside looking in, it appears to me that the big city museum has a tendency toward the blockbuster exhibition since they are angling to attract a large population base that is both indigenous and transient (tourists), whereas regional institutions, especially one like the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, which is […]

One day I left my house and visited a park during a time of my life when things were not going very well. It inspired me and I soon began to do different things in the deserted spaces. I started to visit these places because of the powerful impact that these abandoned places had on […]

If I were to mention two important moments in my formation as an artist, those would be the time I spent in Bilbao on a stipend studying video and performance, and the Jaan Toomik exhibition in Bucharest I saw shortly after coming back to Romania. They were both significant in the sense that they underlined […]

If ever there was a middle-of-the-road exhibition, (read Sandra Bullock minus the Jesse James scandal), this Whitney Biennial is it. In an effort to pull off an “Obama Change” and ostensibly please everybody, traditional, nattering, nabob art critics included, guest curator, Francesco Bonami, and Whitney senior curatorial assistant, Gary Carrion-Murayari, with a few standout exceptions, […]

Putting Renaissance sculptures at the forefront of her paintings, Stefania Mainardi’s work turns these ancient characters into the paintings’ primary subject matter, making them the focal points in each piece. Painted in such an attentive, detailed way these painted statues possess a vitality that makes them appear closer to life. Finding those warm tones in […]

I am a visual artist who primarily works with photography, although I have tiptoed in video and performance art as well. I have been engaged in public service through the work that I have done with at-risk youth through the juvenile correctional system at the California Youth Authority, among others. I like the idea of […]

My work mainly comes from my own personal experience. When people look at my work, I hope they will first be moved, and then they are forced to think. If my work compels them to do that, I consider it a success. I came back to China in 2008, and this is the first group […]

I feel that my art is an uninhibited territory for me. It’s kind of like pulling the dinner table cloth from under expensive porcelain, and watching a big colorful mess taking place, playing with the velocity of time and watching the different stages of a creative disarray. While on a still frame, all stages look […]