Author Archives: jolanta

French artist François Geffray is no stranger to new challenges. With an extensive array of mediums from digital art to painting, his body of work is vast and varied. It was with this continual sense of pushing himself in new directions that he was drawn to the NY Arts Venice Pavilion, where his works are […]

Today we face a functional cultural industry whose substance is widely corrupted by greed of gain. The immense budgets film and music productions, and their interconnection with merchandising such as computer games and coffee cups, and media presence can hardly be opposed by freelance artists working on their own. I suggest that the advertising industry […]

The inclination toward nothingness is unrelenting. There is a point at which sculpture, from antiquity for example, usually made of stone and left exposed to the elements is reclaimed as material, its social and cultural meaning worn away as representation fades. This is when sculpture is in a pure material state, and exposes a kind […]

Sometimes the planets’ line-up and the exploration of one’s artistic vision are a completely joyful, even miraculous, experience. The series, Arrangement in Green and Black: Portrait of the Photographer’s Mother, had serendipitous beginnings. I found a small print of Whistler’s painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother, at a neighborhood garage […]

Leah Oates: What is your background, and when did you know you would be an artist?Jacob Hashimoto: Most of my childhood was spent in Walla Walla, a small silent town of farms and colleges in dusty southeastern Washington. My parents, who both worked at Whitman College, were always very supportive and interested in the arts, […]

The exhibition, Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008, co-presented by the MCA and the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, explores Italian art and creativity from the late 1960s to the present. It offers an unprecedented look at the artistic production of a country where cultural change has often been defined by the persistence of the […]

Charlie White’s work explores the overlap of the liminal space of adolescence and American consumer culture, and implies that this world cuts to the cultural core of a society shaped by capitalist greed. His latest photographic and video work focuses largely on the life of the teenage American girl, and grapples with pop culture (or […]

In 1979 I painted about 40 hummingbirds on exterior locations in lower Manhattan. An experience I’ve never recovered from. Every year I do another street project but I don’t think I’ll ever get to the bottom of the possibilities I stumbled upon with those birds. For years I engaged in a pretty standard street art […]