Author Archives: jolanta
Marina Abramović in Present Tense
The Museum of Modern Art presents Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, the first U.S. large-scale museum retrospective of the artist’s groundbreaking performance work, from March 14 to May 31. Internationally recognized as a pioneer and key figure in performance art, Marina Abramović (Serbian, b. 1946) uses her own body as subject, object, and medium, […]
An Eye on Nature
LUMAS opened its doors in 2004 in Berlin. Now, six years later, 11 galleries exist worldwide promising to offer affordable and quality photographs and digital art. Positioning themselves amongst galleries that typically sell small editions of three to five pieces, large-format photographs for steep prices and the reproducible, or widely available poster art that is […]
Incurable Nostalgia
By Lugu Lake the Mosuo people have their unique funeral, which is a very interesting subject to me, and this interest has to do with the early deaths of my parents and my sentiments toward life and death. I am attracted toward the matrilineal family pattern. My drifting lifestyle made nowhere home; there is no […]
Out of Context
David Merritt’s works have a subtle aesthetic and conceptual strength. He examines the relationship between the visual and the aural, particularly as they co-exist in language. The exhibition david merritt: sham at the Art Gallery of Hamilton features his drawings, rope sculptures, and video. Though these media offer diverse visual manifestations, Merritt’s theme is pervasive. […]
Renditions of Nature
Traveling frequently, Cecilia Paredes is inspired by the many locations and cultures she encounters. Her travels and deep immersion in a variety of cultures has given her a nomadic-like perspective that informs her work. This condition is partly the result of her choice to divide her time between North and Central America as she fully […]
Nabeela Al Khayer
Appearing almost as engravings or etchings, depicted through scratches and harsh inconsistent strokes, Al Khayer’s works render expressive portraits through her rough, gestural mark. Working on a black background, the artist creates deep recesses and shadows that add a heightened sense of drama to the otherwise neutral portraits of young women. Al Khayer’s color palette, […]
The Argentinean Touch
Concerned with the notion that the work of art consists of a coalescence of the viewer’s own perception with the object, artists Marcela Cabutti and Mónica Millán—both showing in New York for the first time—create multileveled works in a variety of media that explore the nature of experience. Marcela Cabutti, who was born in La […]
The Monstrosity of Splendor
Artist Marilyn Minter studies the pathology of glamour. Since the 80s, she has rendered beauty grotesque and gore beautiful with photos and photo-realistic enamel-on-metal paintings that shimmer like nail polish. Her latest series, which was on display at Salon 94 is more pleasant. She photographed the tongues of models through glass as they sipped and […]
Telling Tales
I’m a visual artist and filmmaker, and recently moved back to Belgium after a ten-year stay in Norway. For a few years I have lived and worked in Brussels. My work is broadcasted, screened, and exhibited worldwide on both visual art platforms and film festivals. I’ve earned awards and screenings at festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, […]
Food for Thought
Man Ray was a major cultural bridge between New York and Paris, between avant-garde painters, photographers, writers, and filmmakers. For two crucial decades (1921-1940) his Paris studio was a meeting place for artists, dealers, models, and even the nobility. Actually, Ray’s main aim was to bridge the absurd reality of pre-World War II culture and […]
