Author Archives: jolanta
Down a Revolutionary Road
Tainted Love is a group exhibition that considers love as an activist tactic within artistic production. Featuring works made between 1987 and 2009, the show takes its inspiration from cultural/political activity within the moment of AIDS activism, from both its promises and its contradictions, though the projects included do not all strictly address AIDS. We […]
The Modern Fablers
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling presents the work of nine internationally and culturally diverse women, who although formally distinct, all reclaim storytelling and vintage techniques as strategies to address contemporary discourses on warfare, the environment, and female struggles. The artists focus on narrative representation and figuration. Their fairytale-like depictions are in reality reflections of underlying conflicts, […]
In the Wake of Light
Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist whose practice spans video installation, photography, and short film. In her current body of work, she specializes in the creation of immersive installation environments that call on the visitor to physically connect with them. The interplay between the moving image, sound, space, and visitor as component elements in the […]
The Vitruvian Man Goes East
It is twilight outside the Lab Gallery in midtown Manhattan. I join a group of art aficionados and curious passersby who peer through the gallery’s glass façade, at a large circle of sand, illuminated from above by a spotlight. In the foreground is a bucket of steaming water and against the far wall leans a […]
Candid Doings
In search of lost time, an exhibition of Kazuko Miyamoto’s work at Gallery 128, spans four decades of work, 1969-2009, some of which was never shown in public. The show is comprised of string constructions, paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and photographs documenting past work and performances. Employing non-traditional art materials, such as brown paper, newspaper, […]
The Unconditional Human Condition
Shapes, lines, directions, and movements of all creations starting with me are constantly combining and contrasting in multiple dimensions through my own visual vocabulary. I want to evoke effects of mirrors, interactions of lines and shapes, and sometimes the stages unruled by the fourth dimension of time. I am trying to expose parallel or sequential […]
Inside her spirit, a healing pool
Healing is never easy. It is a process of change, transformation, an acknowledgement of sickness and then a movement toward an idea of well-being, whether it is a conventional or unconventional definition of well-being. Kangal Balıklı Kaplıca, Turkey: a tourist, riddled with a dermatitis branded incurable by Western medicine, bathes in a hot spring and […]
Beneath the Underwear
El Paquete was the premiere solo exhibition of new work by the New York-based, Mexican artist Ana de la Cueva at Jane Kim/Thrust Projects this past November. The exhibition was a journey into de la Cueva’s past, and explored male and female sexuality through the lens of her life. In her anthropological exploration, the artist […]
Catching Up with Augor, Interim in Three Rounds
Catching Up with Augor What’s Los Angeles based graffiti artist Augor been up to lately? A whole lot. After hanging with him in Miami last month during Art Basel, our suspicions that this young, rebellious artist would start to make a real name for himself in the world of street and graphic art have started […]
Philip Taaffe; Back Talk with Miso
Philip Taaffe Taaffe’s elaborate images are the slow product of wide-ranging meditations on the interrelation of generic forms and images in art, nature, architecture, and archaeology filtered through a critical and dynamic relation to the history of abstract painting, both Occidental and Oriental. Drawing has always played an important role in his art. (Artdaily, January […]
