Author Archives: jolanta
A Terrain of Legends
Mexico holds a fascination for artists with its edgy proximity to nature. Teeming with life and death and heir to a civilization at once technologically advanced and steeped in human sacrifice, it is a country of contradictions. The folk religion of Mexico is a fascinating combination of Christianity and Mayan traditions, combining a pantheon of […]
The Extractionist’s Vision
Recently the Broadway Gallery NYC exhibited the work of Ukraine-born artist Igor Zaytsev. The pieces in the show were selected paintings that may appear realistic or abstract but in reality are extractions—a combination of the two extremes. The work asks the viewer to question what they are seeing: something realistic or something abstract or both. […]
Winged Men
With this series, I’m revealing a personal realization about the ANGEL; I’m not a religious person and this work has little to do with religion or even spirituality, but closer to the realms of math and biology. The ANGELS are symbols for the ANGLE. The angle of human DNA. Angels and the Holy Grail are […]
Wilma Rosch
Rosch’s collages are a vibrant mix of exuberant colors. Lively oranges and reds bring an intense energy and dramatic flare to the artist’s collages. Blooming flowers spreading their blossoming petals throughout the composition, blown up rather large at times, some flowers possess a notable stage presence in these pieces. While in other moments they downsize […]
Matthias Lukoschek
Lukoschek’s photographs compose quiet, simple, and minimal scenes of barren landscapes. In many pieces there are only a few elements that compose the entire composition. The color palettes, as well, are simplistic, involving only a few colors, and sometimes even remain monochromatic. Many times Lukoschek’s landscapes are found covered in snow, blending the land with […]
The Aftertaste of Culture
My artwork deals with different recording and collecting cultures, ranging from taxonomic forms of documentation to casual snapshots. I view my practice itself, a practice predicated on the labor-intensive re-recording of photographic information using manual means, as the manifestation of a recording impulse. I am also a habitual collector of images. The criteria I use […]
A Lifelong Question
“A good question should avoid an answer at all costs.” is presented to us in gold letters, letting us know in advance that only open endings are allowed in this exhibition, histories with undefined limits as life itself. Dora García rescues the characters of a last paragraph so that they may live their own existence, […]
Nothing Domestic: Laughter and Horror
Power and the poetry of money, the increasingly narrower latitude available for political action, the role of the self-generating war, the iciness of society, the execution of nature—these are the themes to which Malachi Farrell draws our eye, as well as to a bunch of cables, hoses, aluminum sheets, contraptions, and electronic parts everywhere, to […]
Implied Thoughts
One is from Columbus, Ohio, the other from Sydney, Australia. One is American, the other Salvadorean, yet both are women with contrasting talents. On a cold December afternoon last year in a Harlem loft apartment, those talents would merge to create art. Photographer/ Journalist Sarah Laubacher has built a respectable body of work while working […]
The Spirit Girls’ Siren Song
Marnie Weber: The Truth Speakers, The Sea of Silence is Simon Lee Gallery’s first solo show of Marnie Weber, an L.A.-based artist and musician. This multifaceted exhibition of film, sculpture, and collage immerses the viewer in the uncanny world of Weber’s imagination. The central focus of the show is the new film, The Sea of […]
