Author Archives: jolanta
Nava Revital
Revital’s paintings of lazy lounging in domestic settings have a quiet, slow, lethargic, almost melancholic feel to them. Standing within a close range, the artist’s brushstroke becomes fully evident, playing with a sense of motion, emphasizing the creation of each plane made. Active, lively marks describe each and every part of the composition, yet the […]
Petra Ruzickova
Beaming with a theatrical, enchanted light, Ruzickova’s photographs look towards the skies, concentrating on the powerful presence of the sun. The beautiful, picturesque quality of the setting and rising suns sets a fairy tale-like air to all of her pieces. The overlay and transparency of some of the imagery over the rest gives these photographs […]
Sealed Moments
My work derives from my own living experience, involving media such as painting, installation, and video. In the piece Momentary Image, I enlarged a number of video screenshots of sensitive movements and states of women, and gave them painting-like color blocks by image processing. These movements and states include the lower body of a woman […]
Dirty Silhouettes
My work is driven by the desire to understand and interpret the human condition, human dynamics/relationships by exploring the “spaces in between.” I find myself constantly needing to defy the canvas edge and envelope the space beyond the boundaries, incorporating into the images elements of truth and fiction such as text, collage, and assemblage in […]
The Sound of a Silent Dialogue
Rebecca Horn is a major representative of the contemporary German art world, and has been well-known since the early 1970s for her numerous performances that sought to improve communications with others and develop a rapport with nature. Following her participation in the Documenta V show in her 20s, Horn has energetically explored one new territory […]
Scope Art Fair Diary
Having visited SCOPE Art Fair at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park the morning after it opened, I found a much more sedate crowd than the one that had probably patronized the place during the previous night’s party. Since the Markt wing of the show was strategically placed by the coat check, I, along with much of […]
Shades of Blue
Artist Laurance Rassin, director of the New Blue Riders, is teaming up with the Durst Organization and Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl (CCOC) to create awareness and funding for not-for-profit organizations through Simply Blue, his first major solo show at Condé Nast’s exhibition space in Manhattan. The exhibition, curated by Lanny Powers, is open to the public […]
The Two Hands Art Store: Infinite Dimensions
This March Turkish artist Gulay Alpay will construct of her signature environmental installations, at the Art Expo show New York. The Two Hands Art Store Alpay’s most recent happening, is a collaborative effort between herself and the audience which she creates using florescent paints and a variety of other media. In such environments, Alpay recreates […]
Manners of the Body
The earliest performance piece of Bai Chong-Min that I knew about was Lugu Lake, which was a collaboration with Wu Wei-He in 2002. It was part of the “Long March” projects on feminism. It could be easily concluded from Lugu Lake that the cloth dolls and clothes styles were all making an analogy to the […]
New York Art Fair Week
The Armory Show, the big attraction of New York Arts Week, and why shouldn’t it be? With the most important names of the 20th and 21st century on their list, it is one of the most valued events in the New York art world. However, the more recent trend of less established art fairs representing […]
