Author Archives: jolanta
Controversial Customs
Alex Mirutziu is a Romanian artist whose work cuts across multiple domains, including conceptual writing, performance, photography, and video installations. His work endows social processes with ephemeral emergence as the man constructs in an attempt to reconfigure the relation between information and form, psychophysical language and content, challenging origins and meaning. After the disturbing solo […]
Meet the Helpmeat
The Helpmeat series of drawings began, absurdly enough, with the reading of a line from Genesis, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helpmate.” The synonym “helpmeet” didn’t exist until a slow series of errors of translation occurred (the first in the King James Bible, and the […]
Acrylic Portals
Painting acrylic portals, as he calls them, Michal Balazik plays the artistic tour guide to new worlds, new realities, or perhaps this reality viewed in a different light. Building layer upon layer of paint this Slovakian artist brings us a view of nature that is not one to understand, but one to loose yourself in. […]
LUMEN
LUMEN Group Exhibition, LUMEN: International Video Art and Projection Festival, June 26, 4pm-12am @ Staten Island, NY – presented by the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI)
A Peek at the Interior
My work acts as a conduit to the unconscious. Parts of it are anatomical, botanical, animal, and mechanical. I rework the “guts” of my characters and provide an interplay of metaphors. Based on simple, intimate and immediate means, I attempt to interweave the internal and external, the physical and metaphysical, the individual and collective. Often […]
Collaborative Works: Blago Bung, Cold Mountain & Emily Harvey Foundation
The Dada force and spirit has been moved forward since 2006 at the Emily Harvey Foundation where the first, second and fourth Blago Bung evenings took place; the 3rd was held in Zurich at the original Cabaret Voltaire in September 2009. Blago Bung is an explanatory device / blurs all disciplines / is a trans-generational […]
Philadelphia Praises Picasso
Pablo Picasso’s life, works and associations are the central core of this remarkable exhibition, drawn almost entirely from the Philadelphia Museum’s own collection, a large part of which was bequeathed by Albert Eugene Gallatin in 1952. Eleven galleries of paintings, collages, sculptures, and drawings organized by periods are on view, including a wealth of works […]
Gamer
There are a lot of points of entry to the multifaceted world of Mark Bloch, so you will have to decide for yourself where to begin. An artist of the future, Bloch emerged from underground this spring with a one-man show at the Emily Harvey Foundation that was not too difficult to get into. His […]
A Recluse’s Musings
I’m a cantankerous, semi-agoraphobic painter who has lived in New Orleans for the last 11.5 years. I grew up in Vermont and California, and developed my own cryptic drawing style in class instead of taking notes. I became a professional artist when I moved here, taunted into painting proper pictures in the animist, chaotic atmosphere […]
